SkEye | Astronomy

Harshad RJ

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About this app

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
 • Meteor showers, including Perseids, Geminids, Leonids
 • Night Mode
 • Search, with a guiding arrow
 • Alt-Azimuth, Equatorial grid
 • Aligned mode, for PUSHTO guidance


‣ Queries?
Send an email to [e-mail].

‣ 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

Ratings and reviews

An elegant and reliable astronomy app. One of a very small number of apps that I rate highly enough to rely upon. The breadth of it's functionality offers good support "out in the field" and it's interface is not overly cluttered which is great in low light conditions using night mode.

Just point your phone at different parts of the sky to update the sky map. But search function is confusing. Don't click on magnifying glass in main sky map screen. Instead, click on the 3 vertical dots (...), then click on the magnifying glass. Why would you program the search function this way? Please fix it. The app takes up just 2 Mb of space on your phone, not like some other apps taking up 100+ Mb. Thank you developer.

Ok star map. PUSHTO function simply doesn't work. It will barely locate the saved alignment points and won't get within field of view of searched targets. It would work much better if the view axis could be rotated 90° to view along the phone's longitudinal axis, rather than the camera axis. Then, the phone could be aligned in a mount like a finder, with no need for complex alignments that never actually work.

What's new

* [Fix] Fixed the accuracy of FOV circles on Map view. There was a small error in the calculation of FOV for wide views (greater than 60°).
* [Fix] When text size was set to very large in Android Settings, the Map screen UI was getting corrupted