Celestial Veil: Star Map

Celestial Veil is a real-time star map with a difference: it shows the sky as astronomy calculates it — and, layered clearly on top, the traditions people have read into that sky for thousands of years. SEE THE REAL SKY Point your phone at the night sky and the planetarium follows your movement. Stars, planets, the Sun, the Moon and all 88 IAU constellations are calculated offline for your exact place and time — nearly 9,000 stars with true colours, constellation lines and names, the horizon, cardinal points and a subtle Milky Way. Drag to explore, pinch to zoom, tap anything for details. A true planet finder and star finder for stargazing, even without a signal. FIND THE PLANET THAT RULES THIS HOUR The Celestial Compass shows the current traditional planetary hour — calculated from your local sunrise and sunset — and guides you to that planet's actual position: turn right, raise the phone, until it's located. If the planet is below the horizon, Celestial Veil tells you honestly and finds the next hour when it will be up. RITUAL SKY PLANNER Choose any of the seven classical planets and see its next planetary hour, and the next one when the planet is actually above your horizon — with altitude, azimuth, twilight and Moon phase. Add a reminder with one tap. THREE ANGELIC TRADITIONS — KEPT SEPARATE Explore planetary angelology as the sources give it: the Heptameron, the Ars Paulina and Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Each card names its source, section and period; traditions are never blended, and differences are shown side by side. The app locates planets — it never claims to detect angels. ANCIENT SKIES Mesopotamian astronomy (MUL.APIN star groups, the planets of Marduk, Ishtar, Nergal, Nabû and Ninurta) and Egyptian astronomy (Sah, Sopdet, the imperishable stars and the 36 decans), each with modern identifications and honest certainty labels. SAME SKY — DIFFERENT WORLDS Swipe through one planet as seen by astronomy, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Norse weekday lore and Renaissance planetary magic. THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT AROUND EARTH Live space weather from NOAA — Kp index, solar-wind speed and density, interplanetary magnetic field — always timestamped, never estimated. Learn about the magnetosphere, plasmasphere, Van Allen belts and magnetotail, and see the calculated Earth–Moon L4 and L5 regions where faint Kordylewski dust clouds have been reported. MORE • Time Machine: move the sky through hours, days or any date • Tonight's Sky: sunset, twilight, Moon phase, moonrise, visible planets and close pairings • Night Vision red mode for dark-adapted eyes • Scholar Mode: sources, periods, certainty levels and calculation details • Three home-screen widgets: planetary hour, Celestial Veil, and Tonight • Optimised for foldables: sky and information side by side on large screens • Works offline; no account, no ads, no tracking Celestial Veil presents historical and esoteric correspondences as history, not as science, and makes no claims about supernatural effects.