Every planet in this catalog orbits a real star at a real spot in Earth's sky. This page filters the whole map down to what is over your head right now: set your location (or let the browser set it), and the chart shades away everything below your horizon. Hover a star to identify it; click to see the worlds it carries. The default view is the sky as you face it — compass direction along the bottom, height above the horizon upward, the ground flat under your feet (straight overhead stretches across the top edge). Switch to the whole-sky map for the full celestial sphere with your horizon curved across it.
What you can ever see is the star — no exoplanet is visible to the eye through any telescope. "Naked eye" uses the dark-sky limit (V ≤ 6.5); city skies show far less. Time comes from your device clock; your east–west position is estimated from its time zone unless you press "use my location" (read once, used only on this device — this site has no server). Stars with no measured brightness (microlensing hosts) are never listed as visible.
The map above — drag to look around, ＋/− to zoom, tap a bright dot to see the worlds at that spot. Bright dots are stars you could pick out right now; dim dots are the rest of the catalog: below your horizon, or too faint for the band you have selected.
This panel tunes what the map shows. Locate reads your position from the browser (once, on this device only). The latitude dial sets where on Earth you are standing — the sky flips as you cross the equator. The band buttons set how you are looking: with your eyes, binoculars, or a telescope. View switches between the sky as you face it and the whole-sky map.
Brightest first. Altitude is how far above your horizon (90° is straight up); the compass point is where to face.
This page can use your device's location to work out which of these stars are over your head right now — your horizon, your piece of the sky.
Read once, used only on this device, never sent anywhere — this site has no server. Saying no just means you set the latitude slider yourself.