Xasteria Plus - Astro Weather
🇰🇷 KR LocalizedDescription
Xasteria Plus is the expanded version of the free Xasteria Weather app. It adds premium forecast sources, an Apple Watch companion app, Home Screen widgets, and more observing tools and features. It also helps fund the 7Timer forecast servers that power the free ASTRO forecast used by Xasteria and observers around the world. If you haven't tried Xasteria yet, the free version is a good place to start. Forecast sources • 7Timer / GFS: worldwide ASTRO forecast covering cloud cover, seeing, transparency, temperature, humidity, rain/snow, instability and wind • Apple Weather: configurable hourly hyperlocal forecast, up to 10 days • MET Norway: ECMWF-based, useful in terrain-heavy regions • OpenWeather: hyper-local real-time conditions at your precise location Apple Watch A companion Watch app lets you check key forecast data without picking up your phone. Home Screen Widgets • Tonight's weather • Satellite passes • Aurora forecast Tools • Aurora forecast, with worldwide and local data/maps. • ISS and satellite passes. • Light pollution report and map. • Lunar calendar with Sun/Moon graphs and rise/set/twilight data. • Solar eclipse finder and simulator for any location. • Full Location Manager: online search, offline database, map picking, GPS accuracy, elevation and barometric pressure on supported devices. • Quick access to Clear Outside, Meteoblue, Windy, Astrospheric, Sat24, water vapor imagery and more. Display and usability • Night vision mode: red, green or blue, with dimmer control. • Three forecast display modes: icon/graphic, color-stripe, raw text. • Summary icons for Apple Weather and 7Timer, configurable in Settings. • Left panel switchable to icons. • Extended help system. No in-app popups asking for a review, but one on the App Store is always appreciated. For suggestions or feedback: http://astro.ecuadors.net
What's New
• Improved design and layout. • Apple Watch companion app. • Aurora forecast in an extensive new tool. • Widgets added: weather tonight, satellite passes and aurora forecast. • New hyper-local real-time weather forecast (OpenWeather). • The left panel in Weather View can now switch to icons (see Settings). • Sun & Moon altitude arcs showing rising and setting. • Summary icons for Apple Weather and 7timer (see settings). • ISS / Satellites now includes a configurable Brightest Satellites tab. • Light pollution map now uses lightpollutionmap.app. • Expanded in-app Help. Remember, the app never nags you with popups, so it gets very few ratings/reviews. Support it by rating it!
Details
- Developer
- Dimitrios Kechagias
- Main Category
- Weather
- Version
- 5.0
- Version Release
- 2026-04-28
- Initial Release
- 2020-09-15
- Size
- 21 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 0.99
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, EL
- Bundle ID
- com.kechagias.xasteriaplus
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.86 (36)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-07-19
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Competitive Benchmark — Weather Top 10
What it takes to beat this app — comparison with the category's top apps. The orange row is the current app.
| # | App | Price | Rating | Ratings | Langs | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RadarScope | USD 9.99 | ★ 4.17 | 2,707 | 4 | 2026-07-01 |
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| 3 | MyRadar Weather Radar Pro | USD 5.99 | ★ 4.84 | 42,706 | 9 | 2026-07-14 |
| 4 | My Earthquake Alerts Pro | USD 2.99 | ★ 4.77 | 5,805 | 7 | 2026-06-25 |
| 5 | RadarOmega: Doppler Radar App | USD 8.99 | ★ 3.53 | 896 | 1 | 2026-07-15 |
| 6 | Foggy: Bay Area Fog Tracker | USD 5.99 | ★ 5.00 | 15 | 1 | 2026-07-09 |
| 7 | NOAA Weather Radio | USD 4.99 | ★ 4.25 | 9,619 | 1 | 2026-07-08 |
| 8 | RainAware | USD 4.99 | ★ 3.92 | 1,065 | 1 | 2026-05-22 |
| 9 | Earthquake Network | USD 1.99 | ★ 4.56 | 2,086 | 9 | 2026-04-03 |
| 10 | River Levels & Flows | USD 2.99 | ★ 4.60 | 2,620 | 3 | 2026-06-11 |
| 50 | Xasteria Plus - Astro Weather | USD 0.99 | ★ 4.86 | 36 | 4 | 2026-04-28 |
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User Reviews
A lot of data on one page at a glance. Make sure you read legends and quick start to get most out of the app. Well done!
Packed with useful information for planning your astrophotography or just an evening under the stars. If only it could ‘control’ the weather! 😀
So much info in one place. Well worth buying the premium version. A brilliant tool for astronomers!! Thank you.
The latest version has just about every weather parameter a budding astronomer could ever want including, now, details and simulations on upcoming eclipses. Additionally, the software’s creator has been very responsive in addressing questions and correcting minor issues in the app. Couldn’t be more pleased with the application. Now if it can be adapted to Android...
This was clearly made by someone who’s just trying to make an effective, easy-to-use app to fulfill a clear, well-defined function, and who knows what’s needed and what’s not. Thank you for an excellent app! I had NO qualms whatsoever about getting the Plus version. Thank you!
After purchasing the app, I found that if you select the Apple weather tab, it causes the app to crash, and is no longer able to be opened and has to be uninstalled/re-installed to be able to use it. The app has a link to their support messaging page, but when you try to send a message it errors out and says “ The form was unable to submit. Please contact the site administrator.“
While a beginner with the night sky, this app is so helpful, with all kinds of options and info about the various factors in the atmosphere. I recently stayed up a bit later (upon reading elsewhere of good viewing), and wondered just why all seemed somewhat hazy/ cloudy….or something. Remembering to check this app ended up telling me all I needed to know (and then some, what with the options!). It's now my go-to. It's also so good on the iPad.
Feature packed app and you don’t need a few semesters in meteorology to use it. Has a lot of useful functions for the backyard astronomer. Highly suggest it.
First I tried the Clear Outside app. Terrible UI and totally outdated format and crashed often. Next I tried Scope Nights. Definitely a step up, but then it started to have a pop up saying there was an error for every single one of my saved locations and they would appear every time a new page loaded. With a lot of saved locations it became really bothersome to clear so many pop up notifications whenever I was using the app. This app has none of those problems and a much better system for saving favorite locations. I don’t except I’ll need to keep hunting for the perfect astronomy weather app anymore.
Powerful way to see multiple Astro weather sites all managed by location favorites which carry over to each weather service you use.
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