The next full moon, the Perseids, the June solstice and the eclipses through 2030, each as a countdown that keeps itself right. Kounts works the dates out on your phone, so they need no connection, and the moons, seasons and meteor showers never run out. Moon & Sky is one of six countdown packs in Kounts, on iPhone and iPad.
iPhone & iPad · Browsing is free · $1.99 once, $3.99 for all packs, included in Premium
The next full moon on your list. Once it passes, the one after takes its place.
In short: Kounts has a Moon & Sky pack that turns the sky's calendar into countdowns: the next full moon, new moon and blue moon, the solstices and equinoxes, eight meteor showers and a dozen eclipses through 2030. Everything is worked out on your iPhone or iPad to within a few minutes, with no connection needed, and the next one takes each one's place once it passes. The countdowns show in your widgets and on your Apple Watch. Browsing is free; the pack is $1.99 once, $3.99 with every pack, or included in Premium.
The Moon & Sky pack once followed, and the Discover tab it lives in.
Four kinds of sky event. Follow them all, or untick the ones you'll never go outside for.
The next full moon and the next new moon, each as its own countdown. When one passes, the next takes its place the next time you open the app. Full moons come around about every 29.5 days.
The March Equinox, June Solstice, September Equinox and December Solstice. They're named by month, so they read right in either hemisphere: the June solstice brings the longest day in the north and the shortest in the south.
Just want the day count? See how many days until spring, summer, fall or winter.
The big showers from the International Meteor Organization's list, with each year's dates worked out from the sun's position. They never run out.
Months show when each shower usually peaks.
Total and annular solar eclipses and total and partial lunar eclipses through 2030, from NASA's eclipse tables.
Follow the pack and each of these arrives as its own eclipse countdown.
| Date (UTC) | Eclipse |
|---|---|
| February 6, 2027 | Annular solar eclipse |
| August 2, 2027 | Total solar eclipse |
| January 12, 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse |
| January 26, 2028 | Annular solar eclipse |
| July 6, 2028 | Partial lunar eclipse |
| July 22, 2028 | Total solar eclipse |
| December 31, 2028 | Total lunar eclipse |
| June 26, 2029 | Total lunar eclipse |
| December 20, 2029 | Total lunar eclipse |
| June 1, 2030 | Annular solar eclipse |
| June 15, 2030 | Partial lunar eclipse |
| November 25, 2030 | Total solar eclipse |
Dates are in UTC, so in some time zones an eclipse falls on the day before or after. Each eclipse's notes give the time of greatest eclipse and where it can be seen. Partial solar and penumbral lunar eclipses are not in the pack. The eclipse table ends in 2030; after that, eclipse events are removed rather than shown with a wrong date.
The moon phases, solstices, equinoxes and meteor showers are calculated on your iPhone or iPad, and the eclipse table is built into the app. It all works with no signal, out at a dark spot far from town.
The times follow the methods in Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms and land within a few minutes of the real moment.
Moons, seasons and meteor showers are computed for any year, so there's always a next one. Each rolls on to the next date after it passes, the next time you open the app.
Illustration of a small widget
Pack countdowns are events like any other, so the next full moon can sit in your Home Screen widgets, on your Apple Watch, in notifications and on the Timeline, in whichever card style you use.
The pack adds no reminders on its own, so nothing buzzes unless you ask. Add a reminder to the Perseids or an eclipse, and it stays the way you set it.
The sun sets dates in other packs too. In Faith & Traditions, Qingming falls on a real solar term and Nowruz follows the March equinox. For the official national holidays of 22 countries, see Public Holidays.
No subscription needed. Look around for free, and pay once to follow.
See every moon, shower, season and eclipse in the pack before you pay anything.
Or $3.99 for all six packs, including any pack added later.
$9.99 a year or $19.99 once, with unlimited countdowns and the rest of Premium.
US prices; they vary by region. The pack is on iPhone and iPad. The Mac app does not have the Discover tab.
Discover is the fourth tab on iPhone and sits in the sidebar on iPad.
Keep every moon, shower, season and eclipse, or only the ones you'll step outside for.
The countdowns land in your list under Feeds and move on to the next date by themselves. Add a widget or a reminder for the nights that matter to you.
It depends on today's date and your time zone, so Kounts works it out on your phone and keeps the next full moon on your list as a countdown, accurate to within a few minutes. When it passes, the one after takes its place the next time you open the app. Full moons come around about every 29.5 days.
Eight, from the International Meteor Organization's list: the Quadrantids, Lyrids, Eta Aquariids, Delta Aquariids, Perseids, Orionids, Leonids and Geminids. Each year's dates are worked out from the sun's position, so they never run out.
The total and annular solar eclipses and the total and partial lunar eclipses through 2030, from NASA's eclipse tables. Total solar: August 2, 2027; July 22, 2028; November 25, 2030. Annular solar: February 6, 2027; January 26, 2028; June 1, 2030. Total lunar: December 31, 2028; June 26, 2029; December 20, 2029. Partial lunar: January 12, 2028; July 6, 2028; June 15, 2030. Each eclipse's notes give the time of greatest eclipse in UTC and where it can be seen. Partial solar and penumbral lunar eclipses are not included.
No. The moon phases, solstices, equinoxes and meteor showers are calculated on your iPhone or iPad, and the eclipse table is built into the app, so the pack keeps working with no signal at all.
A blue moon, as Kounts counts it, is the second full moon in a single calendar month. The pack works it out in your own time zone, because a full moon close to midnight can fall in a different month depending on where you are. Blue moons come around only every two to three years.
Yes, if you want one. The pack adds no reminders on its own, so nothing buzzes unless you ask. Open any Moon & Sky countdown and add a reminder, the same way you would on your own events.
Browsing the pack is free. Following it is a one-time purchase of $1.99, or $3.99 for every pack, including any added later, and Kounts Premium includes every pack. Prices vary by region. The pack is on iPhone and iPad; the Mac app does not have the Discover tab.
Kounts is free on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, with no ads. Browse the Moon & Sky pack for free, and follow it for good.
See also: All countdown packs · Public holiday countdowns · Religious holiday countdowns · iPhone countdown widget · What's free in Kounts