Terms of Use

Effective 2026-08-09. Last updated 2026-08-09.

These terms cover Overhead — as websites, as installable web apps, and as the app store versions of the same — published by Abhishek Pandey ("we", "us").

By using any of them you agree to these terms. If you do not, please do not use them.

1 · What these apps are

They are free reference tools that compute astronomy on your own device. Prahar computes a daily panchang for a place; it also computes lunar eclipses and when they are visible from where you are, and compares two birth charts against the eight kutas of Ashta Kuta matching, showing the working behind the score. Overhead draws the sky as it appears from where you are.

They are free to use. There is no account, no subscription and no purchase.

2 · What you may do with them

Use them, for anything, for free, personally or professionally. Share links to them. Take screenshots of them.

Do not: resell them or charge for access to them; copy them or their content wholesale to make a competing product; scrape them automatically at a rate that degrades them for other people; remove or obscure the attributions in §6; misrepresent their output as coming from someone else; or use them to break the law where you are.

3 · There is no guarantee that they are available

We do our best to keep them working, and they are designed to keep working offline once loaded. But they are provided free and as they are: we do not promise they will be available, uninterrupted, or free of error, and we may change them or withdraw them.

4 · Accuracy, and the thing worth reading before you rely on a number

We compute rather than copy. Every number these apps show is calculated from published astronomical theory on your own device — nothing is looked up from another service's table. The sources are named in §6, and each app states its own method on its own pages.

Astronomical positions are one thing. Conventions are another.

The position of the Sun and Moon is a matter of fact, and ours agree with independent authorities to within the precision each app declares. Interpreting those positions into a calendar is a matter of convention, and the conventions genuinely disagree with each other. Different traditions define sunrise differently — by the upper limb of the Sun or by its centre, with or without atmospheric refraction, a difference of a few minutes — and they begin the lunar month at different points, which can change the date of an observance and not merely its timing.

Prahar therefore states which convention it uses, on the page, in plain words: positions computed from observed astronomy (drik siddhanta) rather than from the older mean-motion tables; the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa; sunrise taken as the moment the Sun's upper limb clears the horizon, corrected for atmospheric refraction; and the month named in both the amanta and purnimanta reckonings, so you can read whichever your own tradition keeps. It is a widely followed convention. It is not the only one, and it may not be the one your family, your temple or your astrologer follows. Where a decision matters to you — a muhurta, a fast, an observance, a ceremony — check it against the authority you actually follow. We would rather tell you this than have you discover it on the day.

Nothing in any of these apps is professional advice — not medical, not legal, not financial. They are calculators and reference tools. Decisions you take are yours.

Eclipse and sky predictions are similarly computed rather than copied. Prahar computes lunar eclipses only, and says so on its own eclipse pages; it does not predict solar eclipses.

Never look at the Sun through any instrument, or with the naked eye, whether or not one of these apps tells you where it is. Overhead will show you where the Sun is in the sky. That is not an invitation to look at it.

5 · Ours, and yours

The software, the design, the text and the artwork of these apps are ours or our licensors'. These terms do not transfer any of it to you.

You do not give us anything. There is nothing in these apps to upload, post or submit, so there is no user content and no licence over it for us to claim.

6 · What they are built on, and who to credit

These apps stand on public astronomical work, and it is named rather than absorbed:

• The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. — Hoffleit D. & Warren Jr W.H., Astronomical Data Center, NSSDC/ADC (1991), bibcode 1991bsc..book.....H, via CDS/VizieR V/50. Public domain.
• The IAU Catalog of Star Names (IAU-CSN) — IAU Division C Working Group on Star Names. Released CC-BY; this is the required attribution. Every proper star name in Overhead comes from it, and where the IAU has given no name, none is shown rather than a name being invented.
• The World Magnetic Model (WMM) — NOAA NCEI and the British Geological Survey, used by Overhead to convert the magnetic north your device reports into true north.
• three.js, © three.js authors, MIT licence.

Where these apps are used for observance or ritual, the astronomical computation is ours; the tradition is not, and belongs to the people who keep it.

7 · Liability

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Subject to that: these apps are supplied free and are provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss arising from your reliance on a computed time, date or position.

8 · Privacy

Covered by our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. The short version: there is no account, no advertising and no third-party tracking, and neither your location nor anything you type — including the birth details typed into kundli matching — ever leaves your device.

9 · Changes

We may update these terms. If we do, we will change the date at the top, and where a change is significant we will say so on the page. Continuing to use the apps after a change means you accept it.

10 · Law

These terms are governed by the law of India, and its courts have jurisdiction — without affecting any right you have, as a consumer, to bring a claim under the mandatory law of the country you live in.

11 · If you got the app from the Apple App Store

These terms are between you and Abhishek Pandey only, not with Apple.

• We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for it.
• Because these apps are free, if any applicable warranty is not effectively disclaimed, Apple's sole obligation would be to refund the purchase price — which is nothing. Everything else is ours.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal requirement, for any product-liability claim, and for handling any third-party claim that the app infringes their intellectual property.
• You confirm you are not in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting", and are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

12 · Contact

Abhishek Pandey
T2-1102 Rise Organic, 201002
support@projectbeyondmoonlight.com