Observed arrival · 2026-10-21
Look Aloft puts the sky in your phone camera
A browser-based sky guide that uses your phone’s camera to identify stars, constellations, planets, satellites, and aircraft overhead.
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- People identifying objects in the night sky
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- It explains how to correct compass drift by moving the phone in a figure eight or aligning the overlay with a visible star.
Field notes
The alignment guide recommends waving the phone in a figure eight three or four times, then recalibrating if the sky begins to drift. If that is not enough, it describes dragging the overlay onto the real sky or aligning it with a visible star. The page warns that magnets, car mounts, and nearby metal can interfere, and offers an explore-without-camera option.
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