SkEye | Astronomy

by Harshad RJ


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A map of stars, planets, meteor showers, galaxies and nebulae.


SkEye is a planetarium that can also be used as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes.Get familiar with the sky by identifying stars, planets, and constellations. For the dedicated sky-gazers there are meteor showers, bright comets and deep sky objects from the Messier and NGC catalogs.If you have a telescope, just strap the phone onto the OTA to get a PUSHTO guide!‣ Features • Time machine : Jump to any date in past or future • Real time Alt-Azimuth and Equatorial coordinates • Messier objects • mini-NGC catalog (subset of ~180 bright objects) • Solar system objects including all 8 planets and the 4 Galilean moons • Night Mode • Search, with a guiding arrow • Alt-Azimuth, Equatorial grid‣ Queries?Send an email to [email protected].‣ Tips: • For better accuracy, calibrate the magnetic sensors by waving the phone in a figure-8 motion of your hands. • For advanced use read: https://lavadip.com/skeye/docs.html • If you would like to help with translations: https://crowdin.com/project/skeye‣ App Permissions • Location: to determine accurate position of celestial objects • Bluetooth: to support remote sensors🔍 Easier Search. The search by name feature will now ignore spaces and capitalisation. This will help you search for Messier 2 by just typing m2, for example.☄ Comet info now shows distance from Earth and Sun in AU (astronomical units)✓ UI improvement of Indirect Mode screen.

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This is a great app, very detailed and quick to respond to device movement. It's free and not over burdened with ads. Strongly recommended.

Walsh Amite

Love it

Michael D

Tried to put in city name, didn't pop up.

Henry Tran

Love it

Kris.J Ashcroft

Provides all the information you and don't need. I find it very useful for astrophotography.

Frederico Arez

This app is amazing! Easy to use and smooth usability.

Rodolfo Dias

Amazing

kaushal Joshi

Just starting out. Just help me find Orion's nebula with a 500 mm lens. A real Time saver!!

Other World Explorers

Useful to find and capture difficult objects in the city sky.

R Subbaraya Bhat

It's intermittent at best, needs work

Paige Black