Show HN: Astro App

My current setup is Stellarium + Clear Outside + windy.app and with that you really do need to know ahead of time which objects are visible for your particular location at that time of year or spend a while browsing. Your app looks amazing for my main use cases, but still lacks some information that I rely on. First, it is useful to know the direction of the cloud coverage throughout the night to be able to compare it with where the object you’re shooting will be. I also like to know the brightness (magnitude) of each object to help with planning. The last thing would be to get a list of recommendations rather than using lists of favorites. “What deep sky object do I not know about that today would be perfect for shooting?” is a question I have only been able to answer well with the ASIAR’s list of suggestions, manually curated calendars online that are not tuned to my location, or social media. It seems like you might have all the data to do a better job than all of those options in answering that question. Super cool app! Excited to see where it goes.

This is awesome! I’m curious what you used to make the 3D view? I’ve been trying to make something similar to control my telescope

Your app is awesome and I&#x27;m looking forward to playing with it when it&#x27;s not being hugged to death :). That said I would definitely suggest reading some design books or taking an online class - the app is obviously beautiful but IMO violates some traditional design principles, namely consistency issues like &quot;buttons should be rounded and CTA-colored and small, all clickable elements should share a motif&quot;, etc. I recommend Donald Norman, specifically.<p>Again, awesome app. Windy.app <i>blew me away</i> (no pun intended), and I think this is a logical next step.

Looks nice!<p>Where does the weather forecast data come from? I&#x27;ve used Clear Sky Charts (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleardarksky.com&#x2F;csk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cleardarksky.com&#x2F;csk&#x2F;</a>) in the past.<p>Edit: scratch this question, it was addressed below: Also, is there a way to manually enter lat&#x2F;lon&#x2F;elevation? I poked around but it seems to want device location.

Looks incredible! Shows the value of a good onboarding -- really had me excited to see everything the app had to offer

I just want to pour one out for CalSky, that was a great page for setting up custom trackers for lots of astronomical things. It was very old school web too (for better or worse).

Cool...probably... But am I the only one who can&#x27;t read gray text on a gray background? I can&#x27;t get past it...

This could be a cool application in VR - have you thought about publishing a version for AVP or Quest?

Looks great! This is super cool. Where do you source your information for object locations?

How about an alert for when [thing] is going to be above your house?

Needs to automatically detect timezone.

You almost perfectly recreated the styling of Astro Space UX Design System <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrouxds.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.astrouxds.com&#x2F;</a>

Hey OP (or a mod?), can we consider editing the title to say &quot;Astronomy App&quot; instead of &quot;Astro App?&quot;<p>I accidentally skipped this at first because I thought it was just somebody&#x27;s personal page built in the Astro JS framework: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.build&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.build&#x2F;</a>

&gt; Uncaught Error: Minified React error #425; visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;error-decoder.html?invariant=425" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;error-decoder.html?invariant=425</a> for the full message or use the non-minified dev environment<p>&gt; Access to fetch at &#x27;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sshh12--astro-app-backend.modal.run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sshh12--astro-app-backend.modal.run&#x2F;</a>&#x27; from origin &#x27;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.sshh.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.sshh.io</a>&#x27; has been blocked by CORS policy<p>I think something... doesn&#x27;t look right.

Maybe just my aging eyes but the warning to HN visitors of grey text on black background is HIGHLY unreadable.

Can&#x27;t get past the location setup. I click &quot;use device location&quot;, authorize it in the browser, click save, and nothing happens.

This is great! I usually use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telescopius.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telescopius.com&#x2F;</a> but this has just made it onto my bookmarks, well done!

Fun stuff.<p>Maybe work words like &quot;sky&quot; &quot;explorer&quot; etc into the title tho..... This being HN I thought maybe this had something to do with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.build&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.build&#x2F;</a>

Looks like the only way to use it is giving location permission? Was excited to try it but probably won&#x27;t until there is a postal code option.

Should disambiguate from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.build&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro.build&#x2F;</a> and various other name collissions in your title somehow, maybe &quot;Astro App | Explore the Night Sky&quot; ?<p>Also the &quot;Identifiers&quot; section and some other things have extremely low contrast text, 2.35:1 instead of the recommended 4.5:1 for body-size text. You can check on issues like this using the accessibility tab in Firefox or Lighthouse in Chrome.