Public Universe
Your settings
Everything this site remembers about your browser is listed here. All of it lives in your own browser. Account and alert data are managed separately from these local settings.
Apply settings from a link?
Someone (probably you, on another device) shared these settings. Nothing is applied until you say so.
- Theme
- Observing location
- Time format
That settings link couldn't be read, so nothing was changed.
Theme
Stored as theme.
Observing location
Remembered: (rounded to about a kilometre)
Used on every object page to say where and when it's visible for you. It is sent to our API only for that calculation and never stored there.
No location remembered. Set one from the "In the sky" panel on any object page.
Stored as observer_location.
Equipment and named sites
Your observatory stores equipment and named observing sites in this browser. Manage, export, import or delete that workspace on its own page. It is not included in settings links or cleared by the display settings button below.
Manage your observatory →Observing lists and journal entries have separate local storage and export/removal controls. Manage your observing journal
Display
Time format for rise, transit and set times
Stored as preferences.
Use these settings on another device
This link carries your settings after the # — your browser never sends that part to us, so it does not appear in our logs or in Referer. Nothing is applied until you confirm. Anyone with the link can still read the settings in it, so treat it like the location it contains.
Clear display settings
Removes the theme, location and preferences above from this browser. The Google Analytics 4 choice is separate, and only applies when analytics is switched on. It is covered on the privacy page.
How this fits with cookies and our privacy commitments: Privacy & cookies.