ASTRARIUM

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This reports Astrarium’s active projector scene and settings; it is a live status view, not a camera preview of the projected image.

Viewer control

Turns the projector toward any named star or constellation, or pan/tilt freely. Releases the view back to the journey.

Navigation

Interplanetary path screen

Choose spatial endpoints and a time direction. Backward mode is reverse playback of a forward-time modeled orbit; it does not solve continuous traveler motion toward a decreasing environment epoch.

Forward routes use a zero-revolution Lambert transfer and integrate under modeled gravity, then screen planets, covered moons, curated small bodies, available recorded spacecraft, and sampled satellite TLEs. Backward mode swaps endpoints, solves an ordinary forward-time arc, and reverses its playback. It does not integrate a forward-experiencing traveler whose environment epoch decreases continuously. Collision results apply only to the synthetic spatial arc and covered object records. Coverage gaps, unmodeled objects, and orbit uncertainty remain; no result certifies a time-travel route.

Probe trajectory · space to surface

Choose an archived probe path. Phoenix cruise is replayed in heliocentric space; Phoenix entry, descent, and landing and MRO Jezero are replayed around Mars with terrain when coverage is available.

Flight instruments STANDBY

Flight controls

Stick mapping

The stick steers the camera smoothly; let go to stop. The compass follows the camera. The throttle sets journey time scale continuously from 1× to 10× without jumping the timeline. Moving the stick switches from full-sky dome to the projector-aimed window view. The dashboard readouts refresh live while this tab is open.

Ship's company

Join this projector's crew from a phone or tablet on the same Wi-Fi. Choose a station to get its console.

Active crew 0 aboard

Wake monitor

If your child stirs, the room glows back up softly with the nocturne playing, then fades to black once they settle.

Tonight's queue

Tonight's sky

UFO journeys

Treat each report as a destination constraint. Visit the estimated craft position at the event epoch, or replay the sky from the witness location. A preview sets the scene; a continuous past-directed route is not yet solved.

Stellar & planetary maps

Browser image viewer: observations stream from Astrarium and render in this tab; projector connection is optional. Drag to pan · scroll or pinch to zoom. Previously viewed image data remains available offline on this device.

Quasars are plotted as a density layer. Hover or tap a marker for its SDSS designation, redshift, and estimated comoving distance. Distance is inferred from redshift using a flat ΛCDM model (H₀=70 km/s/Mpc, Ωₘ=0.3), not directly measured. Catalog: SDSS DR16Q.

Tap a star on the chart or add a planet from the archive below.

Showing the bundled 83,467-star guide catalog and confirmed exoplanet host stars.

Deep-sky image studio

Render the sky from Gaia stars and 3D gas, or show a real telescope observation. Telescope-only mode uses calibrated, sky-aligned MAST science pixels, including the stars and nebula as observed. Drag the image to travel across the field; scroll or pinch to zoom. Copy image link shares the current pointing.

Astrarium catalog reconstruction

Other telescope composite

Same 200″ sky footprint, independently registered from archive WCS. Filter bands, point-spread functions, and exposure differ; compare structure and registration, not exact color or brightness.

Independent NASA color reference

NASA/ESA Hubble 2014 composite (13 filters). Compare morphology and source placement; its wavelength coverage and color assignment differ from the four-filter near-IR reconstruction.

NASA reference details and color mapping

H II surface mesh: Gaia Sky Gaia DR3 dataset by Kevin Jardine, based on known ionizing stars and clusters, H-alpha survey sizes, and Gaia distance estimates. This is a projected 3D isodensity surface, not telescope pixel data. Dataset details · Creator notes.

Black holes

Confirmed black-hole systems plotted at their measured sky positions. Stellar-mass systems are shown at the visible companion’s catalog position; masses and distances are approximate published values.

Exoplanet archive

The selected star follows a smooth Milky Way disk, bulge, and dark-halo gravity model; its planets and the ship stay in local gravity-bound orbits. Measured proper motions and radial velocity seed the galactic path when available. If stellar motion is missing, Astrarium assumes a circular disk orbit; this is a test-particle model, not a star-by-star N-body calculation. Missing masses are estimated. Surface colors and phase are illustrative where unknown. Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, confirmed Planetary Systems table.

USB devices

Reading connected USB devices…

Mounted storage

Storage volumes Android has mounted and made available to apps.

Voice control

Try: "show the stars" · "wind down" · "wake up" · "look at orion" · "set course to cygnus" · "lines off" · "art on" · "faster" · "slower" · "normal speed" · "louder" · "quieter" · "brighter" · "dimmer" · "release" · "stop listening"

This browser blocks microphone speech recognition on insecure origins. Use the Atlas app, or open this page over HTTPS / localhost, or enable "unsafely treat insecure origins as secure" in Chrome flags for this address.

Star naming registry

Browse approved community names or propose a name for a star. Proposals are reviewed before they appear in the public registry. Names are community entries, not official astronomical designations or ownership claims.

Approved names

Black hole naming registry

Browse approved community names or propose a name for a black hole or candidate. Proposals are reviewed before listing. This registry does not establish official astronomical naming or ownership.

Approved black hole names

Night sky viewer

Point your phone at the sky to identify stars and guide toward named stars or black holes. Location and motion sensors are used only on this device.

Viewer stopped · start to request location and phone orientation.

Heading uses the phone compass and can be affected by nearby metal or electronics. Black holes are not visible directly; their positions are marked from the catalog. Tilt your phone in a figure eight to calibrate its compass if the direction seems inaccurate.

Stellar cartography

For a steadier solve, prop the phone securely on a surface facing up, with an unobstructed view of the sky. Keep it still while the app combines a short burst of frames, then matches persistent points against bright stars predicted from your location, time, and phone orientation.

Camera off · location and orientation not requested.

Use a stable, level surface away from metal. The burst suppresses changing noise but cannot recover detail the camera sensor never captured; clouds, city glow, focus, and exposure still matter. GPS provides surface position; matching stars refines pointing, not GPS accuracy.