Just shipped v2.0 of Solstix with a full solar system update. Completely free, just wanted to share with the community here my idea was build something that is useful for young space explorers as well as grown up. It calculates stuff like azimuth , altitude for sun , best time for golden hour , moon is interactive showing you current phase and also scrub to find out when will be full moon for example and sun has direct live feed from SDO
Eight planets. Mercury through Neptune plus Pluto. Each one has illustrated visuals you can drag to rotate and real astronomical data calculated for your location. Rise and set times for tonight, best viewing time, golden hour, current altitude, which constellation to look in, visibility status, whether you need a telescope or can spot it naked eye. Distance from Earth that updates in real time, light travel time, apparent magnitude, angular size.
The Mars section connects directly to NASA’s Curiosity rover. Six cameras to switch between. NAVCAM for wide terrain views. MASTCAM for high-res panoramas. CHEMCAM for rock analysis. MAHLI for extreme close-ups. Front and rear hazard cams. Live imagery with Sol count and timestamps. It’s honestly surreal scrolling through photos taken on another planet yesterday.
Every other planet pulls from NASA mission archives. Juno flying over Jupiter’s south pole. Cassini’s final views of Saturn and its rings. Voyager 2’s historic flybys of Uranus and Neptune from 1986 and 1989. New Horizons revealing Pluto’s heart for the first time. MESSENGER mapping Mercury’s craters. JAXA’s Akatsuki peering through Venus’s clouds.
Saturn has its rings. Jupiter has its bands and the Great Red Spot. Neptune has that deep blue. Pluto shows as a dwarf planet with Tombaugh Regio visible on the illustration.
Data sourced from NASA SDO, NASA JPL, NOAA Solar Calculator.
No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. No account required. Free forever. Added an optional tip jar for anyone who wants to support but the app stays free regardless.
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by Sweet-Helicopter2769
5 Comments
Crazy! I’ll give it a try. Thanks for making this app!!!
Installing it right now! This is so cool!
Sounds awesome thanks! Is there an Android version too?
Is the “Solstix” view supposed to look like a very low resolution orange fruit? 😅 I’m confused
This is really cool thank you! Love how it says when sunset is. Can’t wait to show my son.