I love this app, unfortunately no Android phone has a reliable compass. This cripples one of the best features.
Sky Guide at Google Play market analyse
Estimation application downloads and cost
Description
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
Versions and releases
Latest version Sky Guide: 10,000+
* 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
Apps Changes History:
- New App Version 2 -> 0
- New App Version 2 -> 2
- New App Version 2 -> 2
Reviews
Not compatible with Google pixel
Would not download. Payed for the app, but it wouldn't start the download. Waited for close to an hour before I gave up.
I used to be able to see plains and satellite information. What happened? The accuracy in constellation mode is not accurate.
Doesn't track satellites
Exceptional tool for learning and observing
Cant get it to work just stays on America tried all avenues to get it to work .its a rip off
