Lumara launches a free, privacy‑first dashboard that stitches live solar images, moon phases, and space‑weather alerts into a single interface. The app pulls data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory every 12 seconds and from ESA/NASA SOHO, delivering 12 wavelength views of the Sun. Users pick a city from a list; no GPS data leaves the device.

Behind the interface lies Jean Meeus’s Astronomical Algorithms, the same math used by professional observatories to calculate moon phase, rise, set, and distance offline. Solar flares are categorized B–C–M–X, and coronal mass ejections can reach 3,000 km/s. Lumara fetches real‑time alerts from NASA’s DONKI database to warn of geomagnetic storms on the G1–G5 scale.

The developer, a U.S. Army veteran named Beeswax Pat, built Lumara single‑handedly with no funding or tracking deals. The Android version is live, while the iOS build, submitted to Apple Review on 2026‑04‑27, will launch soon. The app remains free forever, with no ads or in‑app purchases, and all imagery is fetched directly from NASA servers.

Because the moon data runs offline, users can rely on the app even without internet, while solar imagery and space‑weather updates need a connection. Lumara’s design keeps location data local, never transmitting GPS or device info. For hobbyists, researchers, or anyone curious about the cosmos, the dashboard offers a high‑resolution, real‑time window into our nearest star and its effects on Earth.