Stargazers want more useful ways to explore the sky
Amateur stargazers want to know where planets are in the live sky and get notice of upcoming astronomical transits, but at least one user was unsure whether their current app offered those alerts. Others want a more immersive 3D way to explore astronomical objects. A telescope-attention map is a related visualization request, but appears to serve a more research-oriented need.
For amateur stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts. Mentioned from Apr 2024 to Sep 2025 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 4.0/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 5.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Very nice. Is there an app that gives you notice of such transits? I use SkySafari, maybe it’s on the somewhere?
My wife has gotten into planet/stargazing and it would be very cool to see in real-time where, say, Venus is, while also seeing it in the night sky. Also potentially very cool: This as a real-time screensaver. I'd pay for that!
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