• Redesigned Location Manager.
• Redesigned settings screens for all tools, with integrated help.
• Xasteria weather improvements:
◦ Redesigned Light Pollution tool with an interactive map using World Atlas 2015 or Xasteria/VIIRS data. Pan, zoom and tap any location for sky brightness and approximate Bortle estimates. Includes road and satellite backgrounds, adjustable opacity, night colours and an expandable information panel.
◦ Dedicated Light Pollution help explaining the data sources, SQM and the subjective nature of Bortle estimates.
◦ New Multi forecast combines 7Timer astronomy data with the optimal short-term forecast from MET.no or Apple Weather. Tap marked disagreements to compare the original data.
◦ New animated Cloud Map using EUMETSAT and NASA GIBS infrared imagery, with a time slider, playback controls and your location marked.
◦ New All Sky Map for Satellites shows the entire night on one chart, with satellite trajectories, a time slider and adjustable playback speed.
◦ Bright and Brightest satellite tabs merged into a single Satellites tab with an instant brightness filter.
◦ Faster satellite pass and sky-map calculations, with progress indication.
◦ New configurable Weather Multi widget with selectable fields, multiple display styles, day/night shading, Moon phase and source update details.
◦ Improved Weather Tonight widget with automatic source selection and a configurable extra row.
◦ Fixed NOAA and water-vapour links.
• Optional one-time camera lens alignment to verify and correct the camera when performing azimuth calibration.
• Improved iOptron WiFi direction pad, plus a new joystick available throughout the app for manual movement and synchronisation.
• Improved DSO database listings, particularly chart and image loading. Long-press an object’s details to copy its data.
• A vertical line on DSO database, Lunar Calendar and Weather charts now indicates the current time.
• New coordinate units setting: DMS or decimal.
• Added Sh2 designations to all Sharpless objects.
• Layout fixes for large font settings.
• Windowed mode fixes.

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• Xasteria astro weather:
◦ Solar Eclipse tool improvements, including past eclipses and audio cues in live mode.
◦ Experimental Camera tool in the Eclipse simulator for automated eclipse photoshoots: diamond ring, Baily's beads and bracketed totality exposures.
◦ New light pollution data option, extrapolated from the World Atlas using VIIRS 2025 satellite night-light radiance.
◦ Live map tracking of the ISS and satellites, pass simulation, and dedicated Tiangong and Hubble views.
◦ New Sunrise / Twilight setting for the weather tonight widgets.
◦ Weather tonight complication and widget for Apple Watch.
• Daytime Alignment: crosshair / target can now be adjusted on the Camera Azimuth Calibration confirmation screen.
• Sun Finder added: a Push To that guides you to the Sun (found in Daytime Alignment).
• DSO Database: new Double / Multiple Stars category.
• iOptron WiFi Connect:
◦ Support for all the newer mounts (HAE, HAZ, HEM and others), with switching between Equatorial and Alt-Az on mounts that support both.
◦ New Move & Sync Mount tool and Point GoTo tool, both with sky maps.
◦ Current Point Query updated with a sky map.
◦ Mount time and location set automatically.
• Elevation can be entered for manual locations, and UTC is available as a time zone option.
• UI improvements, most notably a clickable location dropdown and a new landscape setting on iPhone that lets most tools work in landscape.
• Fixes, including the Hop To / Laser Align targeting display.
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Version 7 brings improved daytime alignment and many more tools and features:
• Camera Azimuth Calibration added for Daytime / No Polar Scope alignment, using the Sun, Moon, planets or bright stars for higher accuracy instead of relying on the compass.
• Improved Daytime Alignment, Laser / Hop Align, and Push To compass/magnetometer handling.
• Phone mounting orientation options added for alignment and Push To tools.
• Sky maps added to Push To, Hop To, Laser / Hop Align, and Daytime Alignment.
• DSO Database lists can be saved, edited by swiping, and printed.
• Xasteria updates: Widgets available (weather, satellite pass and aurora), OpenWeather forecast, aurora forecast map, improved weather display with sun/moon altitude arcs, in-app satellite trajectories, and updated light pollution map.
• Bubble Level adds incline/slope percentage mode and Camera Az calibration support.
• Auto Night Mode added.
• New onboarding screens and improved help, especially for daytime calibration.
• Magnetic declination calculation restored.
• Various small fixes, including settings screen and iOS 26 compatibility updates.
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What's new:
- Fixed DSS image downloads, backup server added.
- Xasteria improvements including higher contrast main weather view.
- Reduced app size.