Vutrem Orbit

Track tonight's Moon phase and keep a journal of the nights you observe it. Vutrem Orbit is a Moon observing journal. It shows the phase of the Moon for tonight and lets you write down what you see 👀 in the sky. Open Vutrem Orbit to see 👀 tonight's date, the phase name, the lit percentage, the Moon's age and the lunation number 🔢. Below that, you move to the tools 🛠️ you need. Phase scrubber - Slide a night strip left or right to see 👀 the Moon on any day in the lunation. - Pick the hour and watch 👀 the disc and the dial change. - See 👀 the next phases and the days until each one. - See 👀 which named features sit on the terminator tonight. Log 📝 a night - Choose the date and the hour. - Record the sky: clear, hazy, patchy or overcast. - Rate the seeing from 1 to 5. - Note 📝 your instrument: eye, binoculars or telescope. - Drag ✋ across the disc to place the shadow line you saw. - Tick the features you spotted, such as Mare Crisium, Plato, Tycho or Copernicus. - Add a photo 📸 from the camera 📷 or the gallery 🖼️, a location and your notes 📝. Night journal - Browse your nights, grouped by lunation. - Filter 🎚️ by clear skies, notes 📝 or favourites. - Search 🔍 your notes 📝 and locations. - Open a night to compare ⚖️ the computed lit percentage with the one you observed, and to check ✅ whether each feature was lit. More ways to look at your record - The illumination chart 📊 shows the lit fraction across a lunation, with a marker for each night you logged. - The observer record shows your shadow-line accuracy, how many phases you have logged, and your sky conditions. - The feature atlas lists the lunar features, shows which are lit tonight and counts how often you saw each one. - The apparition timeline 🕒 lists upcoming and past phases. Phases are computed from the mean lunation and are accurate to about one day. Use Vutrem Orbit when you want a simple ✨ record of your nights with the Moon.