Moon Atlas4.0.5

Explore a 3D globe of the Moon

Moon Atlas is an astronomy application that lets you use pinch and finger gestures to manipulate a 3D globe of the Moon. This is a rendered sphere and not a static map image. As you zoom in more labels appear as finer detail comes into view. You can double tap on the labels to get more information about a particular feature.

Moon Atlas displays the phase and libration of the Moon from your chosen location and renders these on the globe. You can switch to a 'Globe' mode that allows you to spin the Moon around to see far side features. The feature database is searchable and can move the globe to a searched feature. The phase can be switched off and the far side is shown in a slightly darker shade of grey.

Date, time and location can be changed. There is also a realtime mode that will update to the current time.

The Moon globe can be shown with north or south at the top or inverted to suit different telescope views.

Over 1800 named features are included as well as 26 spacecraft that reached the surface of the Moon.

In addition, information about the current Moon phase and libration are provided. You can swipe left and right on the phase view to go backwards and forwards a day and on the libration chart to go backwards and forwards a month.

Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn atlases are also available on the App Store!

Also there is Planisphere, a star charting app, available on the App Store!

Version History Bug fixes and improvements. 4.0.5 Sep 16 Bug fixes and improvements. 4.0.4 Feb 13 Added drop shadow for feature labels for greater clarity. Bug fixes and improvements. 4.0.3 11/10/2025 Bug fixes and improvements. 4.0.2 10/28/2025 Increased resolution of the Moon globe. Bug fixes and improvements. Version 4 has an improved user interface that's now more related to the new user interfaces that have been built for the iPhone, iPad and Mac versions. 4.0.1 10/22/2025 This is a big update with a whole new user interface which has been built with SwiftUI and adopting Liquid Glass for iOS and iPadOS 26. This shares much more with the Mac and Vision Pro versions that now also have new interfaces. 4.0.0 09/15/2025 Bug fixes and improvements. 3.0.9 05/07/2025 Added spacecraft Athena and Blue Ghost.
Bug fixes and improvements. 3.0.8 03/10/2025 Bug fixes and improvements. 3.0.7 01/28/2025 Bug fixes and improvements. 3.0.6 09/05/2024 Added Chang'e 6.
Bug fixes and improvements. 3.0.5 06/07/2024 Added SLIM and Odysseus spacecraft.
Bug fixes and improvements. 3.0.4 03/12/2024 Bug fixes and improvements.
Added Chandrayaan-3. 3.0.3 08/29/2023 Bug fixes and improvements. 3.0.2 07/23/2023 Bug fixes and improvements. 3.0.1 04/12/2023 This version has been completely rewritten using the Swift programming language and replacing OpenGL with Metal. 3.0.0 09/13/2021 Bug fixes and improvements. 2.6.4 09/11/2019 Fixed minor layout issues for 2018 iPad Pros. 2.6.3 11/01/2018 Fixed layout issue. 2.6.2 09/19/2018 Bug fixes and minor improvements. 2.6.1 08/31/2018 Support for iPhone X and bug fixes. 2.6.0 12/01/2017 iPod touch support fixed
New settings section for iPhone
Supports 12.9 inch iPad Pro 2.5.1 07/15/2016 New settings section for iPhone
Supports 12.9 inch iPad Pro
Bug fixes 2.5.0 07/14/2016 Fixed lettered crater labels appearing on opposite side of the Moon.
Corrected location of crater W. Bond.
Corrected spelling of Rima Ariadaeus. 2.2.2 08/28/2015 Fixed location services for iOS 8.
Fixed spelling for Shackleton crater.
Fixed location of Cardanus crater. 2.2.1 07/10/2015