AstroGlow: Milky Way Camera

Your phone can see the Milky Way. AstroGlow proves it. Capture the Milky Way, aurora, star trails, and light trails with a night-sky camera built for the field. Point it at the night sky and watch your image build in real time: AstroGlow captures a continuous burst of exposures and stacks them live on the GPU — aligning every frame on the stars, averaging away the noise, and keeping the light. What a single frame renders as gray mush becomes dust lanes, star color, and glow. FOUR WAYS TO SHOOT THE SKY • Milky Way — star-aligned stacking for clean, deep skies • Aurora — a carefully planned single exposure for fast-moving light • Star Trails — open-ended circumpolar arcs; stop when they're long enough • Light Trails — headlights, taillights, and city motion A SMART ASSISTANT THAT KNOWS THE PHYSICS The NPF rule computes the longest shutter your lens can hold before stars trail. The gyroscope detects tripod versus handheld and plans the entire stack — frames, shutter, gain. On-device foreground detection helps keep the landscape sharp while the stars are tracked. You tap once. BUILT FOR THE FIELD • Night Vision — the whole interface shifts deep red to protect your dark adaptation • Star-focus loupe — 5× zoom while you calibrate true infinity on a real star • Stability gauge, haptics, and keep-awake — made for cold hands in the dark • Self-timer (3, 5, or 10 seconds) kills tap-shake — or puts you in the frame • Intervalometer — program up to 99 stacks with timed gaps; every shot saves automatically • Timelapse — the intervalometer can compile a finished video right on the phone: the Milky Way glides, aurora erupts, and star-trail arcs literally grow across the clip FINISHED, NOT FIDDLY Every capture ends with automatic hot-pixel removal and noise cleanup, then saves to Photos as a full-resolution image. One-tap Enhance lifts the Milky Way with skyglow-gradient removal and an astronomer's arcsinh stretch — fully reversible, with the before/after right on screen. No accounts. No uploads. Everything happens on your phone. One-time purchase. No subscription. A complete in-app Field Guide is included — every mode, every control, and the physics behind them, explained for the person standing in the dark.