Galamobthe sky in your pocket: a reference for beginner stargazers

An independent reference for beginner stargazers. It is not an observatory, a shop or an app, and it is not connected with the previous website on this domain.

Archive

Archive

Here you will find every page of the reference, grouped by the year it was prepared and tagged by topic. Use the filter above the list to show only what relates to observing practice, stars and constellations, the Moon, your phone or safety. A page may touch on several topics, but in the archive it carries its main one. If you don't know where to begin, choose the "practice" topic: it gathers pages for your very first night under the sky. If you live in a city, the collection on observing under light pollution will be useful too, and it is easy to find in this list.

The archive holds no promises and no empty links: only pages you can already open and read. Anything still in progress will appear here after publication, not before. That makes it easier to see what you can really rely on during your first nights of stargazing.

— Editor's note

How the archive works: an entry appears here only after the page is published and opens without errors. The date is the day the page was prepared, and the topic tag is the main question it addresses. Unrelated pages that previously appeared on this domain are not part of the archive and never will be. We do not remove entries silently: if a page is being reworked, it stays in place and is updated, and its preparation date changes along with the content. The archive contains no external links to shops, apps or third-party services, only internal pages of the reference.

2026

  • Reference

    An observer's glossary: constellation, asterism, ecliptic, phase, terminator, radiant and more.

  • New

    A feed of the latest pages in the reference, with dates, topics and short notes.

  • Sections

    Four topics: how to observe, constellations and stars, the Moon with planets and meteors, smartphones and photography.

Sources

  • Galamob reference pages

Information is current as of the date this page was prepared. What you can actually see in the sky tonight depends on the date, your location and the weather, so check an up-to-date astronomical calendar before heading out.