Your sky
Observing log
What you have found in the real sky, night by night, and what is still out there.
Nights out
- Seen
- 0
- Nights out
- 0 this season
- Weeks in a row
- 0
A week with a night out keeps the run going. A cloudy night never breaks it.
Nothing logged yet
When you find something in the real sky, tap it on the sky map or on Tonight and press “I’ve seen this”. It lands here, under the night you saw it.
On the sky
The chart as a table
| Sighting | Right ascension | Declination | First seen |
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Nights
Up tonight, new to you
Collections
The planets 0 of 7
All 7 other planets. Five are easy to the eye; Uranus needs a dark sky or binoculars, Neptune a telescope.
- Mercury not yet
- Venus not yet
- Mars not yet
- Jupiter not yet
- Saturn not yet
- Uranus not yet
- Neptune not yet
First-magnitude stars 0 of 21
The 21 stars brighter than magnitude 1.5, the brightest in the sky. No one place sees them all.
- Sirius not yet
- Canopus not yet
- Rigil Kentaurus not yet
- Arcturus not yet
- Vega not yet
- Capella not yet
- Rigel not yet
- Procyon not yet
- Achernar not yet
- Betelgeuse not yet
- Hadar not yet
- Altair not yet
- Acrux not yet
- Aldebaran not yet
- Spica not yet
- Antares not yet
- Pollux not yet
- Fomalhaut not yet
- Mimosa not yet
- Deneb not yet
- Regulus not yet
Constellations 0 of 88
The 88 the International Astronomical Union recognises. Tap one on the map to log it.
- Andromeda not yet
- Antlia not yet
- Apus not yet
- Aquarius not yet
- Aquila not yet
- Ara not yet
- Aries not yet
- Auriga not yet
- Boötes not yet
- Caelum not yet
- Camelopardalis not yet
- Cancer not yet
- Canes Venatici not yet
- Canis Major not yet
- Canis Minor not yet
- Capricornus not yet
- Carina not yet
- Cassiopeia not yet
- Centaurus not yet
- Cepheus not yet
- Cetus not yet
- Chamaeleon not yet
- Circinus not yet
- Columba not yet
- Coma Berenices not yet
- Corona Australis not yet
- Corona Borealis not yet
- Corvus not yet
- Crater not yet
- Crux not yet
- Cygnus not yet
- Delphinus not yet
- Dorado not yet
- Draco not yet
- Equuleus not yet
- Eridanus not yet
- Fornax not yet
- Gemini not yet
- Grus not yet
- Hercules not yet
- Horologium not yet
- Hydra not yet
- Hydrus not yet
- Indus not yet
- Lacerta not yet
- Leo not yet
- Leo Minor not yet
- Lepus not yet
- Libra not yet
- Lupus not yet
- Lynx not yet
- Lyra not yet
- Mensa not yet
- Microscopium not yet
- Monoceros not yet
- Musca not yet
- Norma not yet
- Octans not yet
- Ophiuchus not yet
- Orion not yet
- Pavo not yet
- Pegasus not yet
- Perseus not yet
- Phoenix not yet
- Pictor not yet
- Pisces not yet
- Piscis Austrinus not yet
- Puppis not yet
- Pyxis not yet
- Reticulum not yet
- Sagitta not yet
- Sagittarius not yet
- Scorpius not yet
- Sculptor not yet
- Scutum not yet
- Serpens not yet
- Sextans not yet
- Taurus not yet
- Telescopium not yet
- Triangulum not yet
- Triangulum Australe not yet
- Tucana not yet
- Ursa Major not yet
- Ursa Minor not yet
- Vela not yet
- Virgo not yet
- Volans not yet
- Vulpecula not yet
Messier objects 0 of 110
The 110 objects of Charles Messier’s list that the map draws: clusters, nebulae and galaxies for binoculars and small telescopes.
- M 1 Crab Nebula not yet
- M 2 not yet
- M 3 not yet
- M 4 Crab Globular Cluster not yet
- M 5 Rose Cluster not yet
- M 6 Butterfly Cluster not yet
- M 7 Ptolemy's Cluster not yet
- M 8 Lagoon Nebula not yet
- M 9 not yet
- M 10 not yet
- M 11 Wild Duck Cluster not yet
- M 12 Gumball Globular Cluster not yet
- M 13 Great Star Cluster in Hercules not yet
- M 14 not yet
- M 15 Pegasus Cluster not yet
- M 16 Eagle Nebula not yet
- M 17 Omega Nebula not yet
- M 18 Black Swan Cluster not yet
- M 19 not yet
- M 20 Trifid Nebula not yet
- M 21 Webb's Cross not yet
- M 22 Great Sagittarius Cluster not yet
- M 23 not yet
- M 24 Small Sagittarius Star Cloud not yet
- M 25 not yet
- M 26 not yet
- M 27 Dumbbell Nebula not yet
- M 28 not yet
- M 29 Cooling Tower not yet
- M 30 Jellyfish Cluster not yet
- M 31 Andromeda Galaxy not yet
- M 32 not yet
- M 33 Triangulum Galaxy not yet
- M 34 Spiral Cluster not yet
- M 35 Shoe-Buckle Cluster not yet
- M 36 Pinwheel Cluster not yet
- M 37 January Salt-and-Pepper Cluster not yet
- M 38 Starfish Cluster not yet
- M 39 not yet
- M 40 Winnecke 4 not yet
- M 41 Little Beehive Cluster not yet
- M 42 Orion Nebula not yet
- M 43 de Mairan's Nebula not yet
- M 44 Praesepe not yet
- M 45 Pleiades not yet
- M 46 not yet
- M 47 not yet
- M 48 not yet
- M 49 not yet
- M 50 Heart-Shaped Cluster not yet
- M 51 Whirlpool Galaxy not yet
- M 52 Cassiopeia Salt-and-Pepper Cluster not yet
- M 53 not yet
- M 54 not yet
- M 55 Specter Cluster not yet
- M 56 not yet
- M 57 Ring Nebula not yet
- M 58 not yet
- M 59 not yet
- M 60 not yet
- M 61 Swelling Spiral Galaxy not yet
- M 62 Flickering Globular Cluster not yet
- M 63 Sunflower Galaxy not yet
- M 64 Black Eye Galaxy not yet
- M 65 Leo Triplet not yet
- M 66 Leo Triplet not yet
- M 67 Golden-Eye Cluster not yet
- M 68 not yet
- M 69 not yet
- M 70 not yet
- M 71 Angelfish Cluster not yet
- M 72 not yet
- M 73 not yet
- M 74 Phantom Galaxy not yet
- M 75 not yet
- M 76 Little Dumbbell Nebula not yet
- M 77 Cetus A not yet
- M 78 Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula not yet
- M 79 not yet
- M 80 not yet
- M 81 Bode's Galaxy not yet
- M 82 Cigar Galaxy not yet
- M 83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy not yet
- M 84 Markarian's Chain not yet
- M 85 not yet
- M 86 Faust V051 not yet
- M 87 Virgo Galaxy not yet
- M 88 not yet
- M 89 not yet
- M 90 not yet
- M 91 not yet
- M 92 not yet
- M 93 Butterfly Cluster not yet
- M 94 Croc's Eye Galaxy not yet
- M 95 not yet
- M 96 not yet
- M 97 Owl Nebula not yet
- M 98 not yet
- M 99 Virgo Cluster Pinwheel not yet
- M 100 Blowdryer Galaxy not yet
- M 101 Pinwheel Galaxy not yet
- M 102 Spindle Galaxy not yet
- M 103 not yet
- M 104 Sombrero Galaxy not yet
- M 105 not yet
- M 106 not yet
- M 107 The Crucifix Cluster not yet
- M 108 Surfboard Galaxy not yet
- M 109 Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy not yet
- M 110 not yet
Guides
A guide is learned when you finish it, and mastered when you then find it again by hand in a “Back in your sky” drill, or log its subject seen for real.
The skill map
- Learned: guide finished
- Mastered: a drill found by hand, or its subject seen for real
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Milestone 1 · start anywhere
- O1 Bright Stars of the Season , not started
- O2 Measure the Sky with Your Hand , not started
- O3 Understanding Star Brightness , not started
- O4 Dark Skies, Dark Eyes , not started
- O5 Binoculars First , not started
- O7 Your First Telescope , not started
- O12 Aurora , not started
- H1 Why the Sky Moves , not started
- H2 Finding the North Star , not started
- H3 The Big Dipper & Friends , not started
- H4 Cassiopeia: The Other Pointer , not started
- H6 Celestial Coordinates , not started
- Y1 Why We Have Seasons , not started
- Y4 The Sun and Your Clock , not started
- Y7 White Nights , not started
- C1 Orion: The Hunter , not started
- C4 Scorpius & the Galactic Centre , not started
- C5 The Summer Triangle , not started
- M1 The Moon's Month , not started
- M2 Not Earth's Shadow , not started
- M3 The Moon by Day, and Its One Face , not started
- M4 Supermoon Seasons , not started
- M5 The Moon Illusion , not started
- P1 Spotting the Planets , not started
- P3 Venus's Eight-Year Star , not started
- P5 Comets , not started
- P6 Meteor Showers , not started
- P10 Racing and Crawling , not started
- S2 The Star That Brought the Flood , not started
- S3 The Chinese Sky , not started
- S5 Polynesian Wayfinding , not started
- S6 Shapes in the Dark , not started
- S7 The Sisters and the Hunter , not started
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Milestone 2 · builds on milestone 1
- O6 Planning a Night , not started
- O8 Splitting Double Stars , not started
- O9 Stars That Keep Time , not started
- O10 Light Pollution , not started
- O11 Phone Photos of the Night , not started
- H5 The Southern Cross , not started
- Y2 The Ecliptic , not started
- C2 The Winter Hexagon , not started
- D1 The Pleiades , not started
- D2 The Orion Nebula , not started
- D3 Finding the Andromeda Galaxy , not started
- M6 Eclipses , not started
- P2 Why Planets Loop , not started
- P4 Mercury's Hide-and-Seek , not started
- P7 Shooting Stars Aren’t Stars , not started
- P8 Satellites and the ISS , not started
- P11 A Visitor from Another Star , not started
- P12 The Lagrange Points , not started
- S1 Before the Greeks , not started
- S4 The Moon's Houses , not started
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Milestone 3 · builds on milestone 2
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Milestone 4 · builds on milestone 3
Only what you saw in the real sky belongs here: finishing a guide never counts as a sighting, and a cloudy forecast never counts as a night out. The log lives in this browser only — keep a copy with the backup code under “Your progress”.
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