Tutorials: Skyfold
Learn Skyfold step by step.
- Your sky in five minutesChoose a place and a moment, read the live sky chart, find the Moon and planets, and step through the night with the keyboard in Skyfold.Beginner 5 min
- Plan a night of observingUse the Night planner for twilight, golden hour, Moon and planet rise and set times, then collect events in an observation plan and export it as a calendar.Beginner 7 min
- Chase an eclipseFind every solar and lunar eclipse from 2020 to 2040 visible from your place, read contact times, magnitude, obscuration and Sun altitude, and add them to your calendar.Intermediate 8 min
- Watch the ISS fly overLoad satellite orbital elements by pasting TLEs or fetching them from CelesTrak, predict passes with SGP4, and find the passes you can see with the naked eye.Intermediate 8 min
- Sun, shadows and the day-and-night mapMeasure the Sun's azimuth and altitude, plan where a tree or building throws its shadow through the day, and watch day and night move across the Earth.Beginner 6 min
- Print a star map posterTurn the sky of a birthday, wedding or first date into a print-ready poster: choose style and paper size, write your texts and export a vector PDF, SVG or 300 dpi PNG.Beginner 6 min
- The cosmic odometer and camera framingMeasure how far you travelled through space since your birthday in four frames of reference, and plan an astrophoto with a finder chart for your camera and lens.Intermediate 7 min
- Meteor showers and dark nightsFind the best meteor shower of the year for your place, see how much the Moon spoils it, plan the night hour by hour and check whether any night is dark enough.Beginner 6 min
- Aurora, Moon calendar and planetsCheck the aurora chances for the next three nights, print a Moon calendar for the wall in your language and list the year's planet conjunctions as a calendar.Beginner 7 min