
Nightwatch: Clear Sky Alerts
Know when the sky is clear
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Nightwatch tells you whether tonight is worth setting up the telescope, and speaks up when it is. When tonight looks clear for long enough, it sends a heads-up before sunset, then a nudge just before the clear spell begins. If the forecast turns, it tells you.
Open it to see a sky score, the clear window, cloud by hour, darkness, the Moon, seeing, wind, dew risk and transparency, and the best targets for your telescope's field of view tonight.
• Two forecasts compared: Apple Weather, with Open-Meteo as a second opinion, and 7Timer for seeing
• Targets chosen for your telescope, with "How to shoot this" on every target: filter, exposure and frames
• Tonight's plan: your favourites in the order of their best time
• Darker skies nearby, scored for tonight
• Your own horizon: mark what blocks your sky, or measure it from a photo
• Aurora alerts for your site, wherever you observe from
• Tonight's events: the Moon passing in front of a star, comets and the space station
• Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets, and a Lock Screen card when a clear window opens
• Spotlight and Shortcuts actions, and on iOS 27 Siri search for any target
• A red night mode that keeps your eyes dark-adapted
• Shares your sites and settings with the Nightwatch Mac app through iCloud
No accounts, no advertising and no tracking. Nightwatch is open source.
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What's New in Nightwatch
1.0
October 31, 2026




