Astrometry.net
Works out exactly which part of the sky a night photo shows, which can help confirm where and when it was taken.
Open Astrometry.net ↗https://nova.astrometry.net/
- Type
- Website
- Cost
- Free
- Touches the target?
- No, passive
- Account needed
- No
- Category
- Geolocation
- Link status
- Online, checked 2026-09-26
Takes
Gives you
Where to go next
Found something with Astrometry.net? These tools take it as input.
Location / coordinates →
- AntennaSearch
- ArcGIS Living Atlas
- Baidu Maps
- Bing Maps
- Black Book Online
- BRB Public Records
- CORONA Atlas
- Current Location
- DualMaps
- EarthCam
- Esri World Imagery Wayback
- Flickr search
- GeoNames
- GeoSetter
- Google Earth
- Google Maps
- HERE WeGo
- Historic Aerials
- Hivemapper
- Instant Street View
- KartaView
- KartaVision
- LandsatLook
- Liveuamap
- MapChecking
- Mapillary
- MyAccident
- Naver Map
- NSOPW
- Open Infrastructure Map
- OpenCelliD
- OpenRailwayMap
- OpenStreetMap
- Overpass Turbo
- Redfin
- Regrid
- SAS.Planet
- Satellites.pro
- SearchSystems.net
- ShadowFinder Web
- SkyFi
- SunCalc
- USGS EarthExplorer
- VoterRecords
- WiGLE
- Wikimapia
- World Monitor
- Yandex Maps
- YouTube Geofind
- Zoom Earth
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