Sky Guide

by alcyone software


Education

2.99 usd



A clear and detailed star chart with a wealth of additional functionality


Sky Guide is an astronomy app for sophisticated star enthusiasts and hobby astronomers who value well-founded and precise astronomical illustrations and data.The basic app function displays a detailed, scalable and fully user-configurable celestial map with constellations and celestial objects (limit magnitude up to 6.3) that are visible with the naked eye or smaller telescopes. The place and time of observation as well as the direction of view can be manually configured by the user or automatically with the so-called “Live mode” (i.e. GPS, real-time and compass-guided).Detailed additional information is available for every celestial object (fixed star, deep sky object, planet, moon, sun, meteorite shower). The information of the Bright Star Catalog and the Washington Double Star Catalog is made available for fixed stars. Additionally, users can add notes and links for every object.The powerful search function makes it possible to align the map to a specific celestial object or guide the observer – in „live mode“ – to an object in the starry sky with specific notices. Searches can be performed according to the traditional name of an object, the catalog designation or the constellation. Moreover, the app makes it easy to identify celestial objects by aligning the device to the object in “Live mode”.The functionality of the app is complemented by a number of astronomical tools and data, e.g. an astronomical event calculator, an orbit diagram (orrery), a moon viewer (a scalable, orthogonal, geocentric or topocentric moon projection while properly taking the libration, moon phase, position angle and parallactic angle into account) and an ephemerides generator.* 2.5.1: minor bug fixes* 2.5.0: yearly planetary visibility chart* 2.5.0: performance and UI improvements* 2.4.0: option to add astronomical events to calendar* 2.4.0: shows lunar phase at activity maximum of meteor showers* 2.3.1: option to choose the application language* 2.3.1: fixed issue with automatic location detection* 2.3.0: translation into Italian and German* 2.3.0: performance improvements, improved "Live mode"* 2.3.0: correction for true/magnetic north

Read trusted reviews from application customers

Can't get it to focus on anything. Can't get calibration to work. Very confusing to use.

Mike Black

Meh

Smee Self

Does not work on Android

Al Painter

This app doesn't work with my phone. Apparently it only works with older Android phones. Really disappointing

Fiona Stirling

Won't work

Maureen Furan

This installs but doesn't work on android devices. It should NOT install if it can't woek with android.

Dewey Davis

It just gives me a black screen

Tony Esposito

App took my money before telling me that it only works with older versions of android. What does work is very limited.

Marc Soller

I had 'serondipitously' crossed paths with a old dude as i was passing through, we had coffee and tea as he gave me the best advice with photography, especially night sky photography of the Cedone,AZ terrain..he inspected my camera and input a setting "This will allow the most proffessional astrophototraphy of the MilkyWay from Three Sisters Peaks, but, before you go, download and buy the."Sky Guide App" Follow its directions, I did, "BEST APP EVER!" THANK YOU Mr. Royce Bair for buying the tea!

Agent Waldheim

Does not work as good as iOS app

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