Sky Lens™ overlays tonight's naked-eye satellite passes on your live camera view and tells you exactly where to look — turn left 38°, tilt up 12° — until the ISS, Tiangong or a Starlink train is in your reticle. Runs in your browser, works offline-ish on a dark hillside, free forever.
Most AR sky apps draw dots and leave you to hunt. Sky Lens picks the pass that matters — live now, or rising soonest — and keeps a card on screen telling you which way to turn and how far to tilt, with little haptic ticks as you get warmer. When it's in your reticle, the ring locks gold.
Solid red ring = passing right now. Dashed ring = where an upcoming pass will rise, with its time. The rail along the bottom is what's up now, next and later — tap any of them to be guided there.
From tap to "there it is" in under a minute. No set-up, nothing to learn.
Tap Open Sky Lens here or the target button on the Orbital Radar mobile home. Allow motion sensors (so it knows where you point) and, if you like, the camera. No camera? It runs on a dark-sky backdrop instead.
Sky Lens computes every naked-eye pass for your location in the next 12 hours and guides you to the best one: turn left 38°, tilt up 12°. Off-screen arrows and haptic ticks help you close in.
Rings open a detail sheet — brightness, altitude, pass window, the ISS crew and a link to the live stream. Set a reminder, track it on the globe, or open the sky map to plan the whole night.
Built for first-timers and for people who own a telescope. The pro tools are there — they just stay out of the way until you want them.
Turn/tilt directions and haptic "warmer" ticks to the live pass or the next one up. Tap any object to be guided to it.
Rings on the camera view for every naked-eye pass in the next 12 hours, with trails showing where each one is heading.
A rail of live, soon and later passes — ISS, Tiangong, Starlink — at a glance, with minutes-to-rise.
An all-sky chart that rotates with you (or stays north-up without sensors), with tonight's passes as arcs and a list with times and directions.
Scrub up to two hours forward or back to see where a pass will be — perfect for planning a photo.
Point at a moving light and ask. If it's a tracked satellite that is actually up, you get the name; if not, a quick tip on telling satellites from aircraft.
The ten-minute window with the most, brightest passes in a dark sky — worked out from the real sun position where you are — plus the brightest object of the night.
Brightness, altitude, speed, pass window, ISS crew and the live ISS stream. One tap adds a calendar reminder with a 10-minute alarm.
Grab the camera view with labels baked in and share it straight from your phone.
Red-tinted HUD to keep your dark adaptation; hear satellites positioned in space with headphones; have positions read aloud.
Pitch ladder, elevation scale and constellation lines for the technical crowd; "All station passes" shows daylight ISS/Tiangong passes for radio operators.
No camera → compass mode on a star field. No motion sensors → the Sky Map opens automatically with the same passes.
Sky Lens shows the passes you can actually see with your eyes: the ISS, Tiangong, bright Starlink and other large spacecraft, in the hour or two after sunset or before sunrise. It deliberately does not paint the sky with thousands of invisible objects. In daylight it says so, shows a countdown to the next visible pass and lets you set a reminder. Positions come from current orbital elements and are good to a degree or two; your phone's compass is usually the bigger error — the sensor-quality badge tells you how much to trust it.
Point your phone's camera at the code — Sky Lens opens in your mobile browser.
Tonight's passes, your camera, a guide that says which way to turn. Free, in your browser.