Dark Sky Meter
Published by DDQ on Apr 19, 2013
Genre: Utilities
Ratings: 4.25
Version: 3.4
Updated: Sep 12, 2024
Downloads: 854
Dark Sky Meter is a utility app developed by DDQ. Available for $1.99, it was updated to v3.40 on September 12, 2024, and currently holds a 4.25 out of 5 rating based on 4 reviews. Before downloading, make sure your device has at least 4 MB of free space and runs Android 11+ or iOS 12.0+.
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Description
The Dark Sky Meter app measures the sky brightness using the camera and shares it (optionally) with scientists around the globe.
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Dark Sky Meter can be played on Windows and macOS using Android emulators such as BlueStacks. Download an APK version and follow our BlueStacks installation guide to get started. For help with downloading or installing APK files, visit our forums.
User Reviews and Ratings
★★★☆☆ Great idea!
Having a dark sky meter on your phone is just brilliant. When I first tried this on iPhone 13, it was close to what I expected and what lightpollutionmap.info said for my dark sky site. With iPhone 14, however, I can’t seem to trust it. It either tells me my Bortle 4 sky is too dark for the device, or I get a reading that is significantly darker than reality. Perhaps a little more tweaking is needed. Other than that, the app is easy to use and doesn’t crash on me.
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★★★★★ Great tool!
I noticed sky conditions at my observing locations varied and I wanted to test this, and was looking for a tool. This app performs very nicely and I see the variability quantified according to a standard scale. Also developer very friendly and helpful. I’m going to use this to map out all my observing locations. Well done.
★★★★☆ Handy app but
One glaring issue. Not everyone uses UTC regularly. The mobile devices that the app is installed on uses local time. This app need to have the ability to do so also for where it uses time display. It is easier to just look and see local time and not have to worry about time offsets and doing the math.
★★★★☆ Too Dark reading
I’m not sure it’s working on my new iPhone. It kept giving me an error code that it was TOO DARK! It was one of the clearest dark sky nights last night and I really wanted to log it into the data.
★★★★★ Great alternative to meter
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Provides consistent results for locations between 18.00 and 21.00, I don’t bother with brighter skies and haven’t been to darker skies 21.00 yet. Thank you for this app 😁
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