SkyPortal

Celestron

About this app

Celestron® SkyPortal™
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Celestron’s newest planetarium app is an astronomy suite that redefines how you experience the night sky. Explore the Solar System, 120,000 stars, over 200 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites—including the ISS. SkyPortal includes everything you need to experience the night sky in an exciting new way. When connected to a compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, you can automatically point the telescope to any object in the database and view it with great detail.

Planetarium Features
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Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.

Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.

Computerized Telescope Control
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Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.

SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.

SkyPortal has localization support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

Ratings and reviews

the app worked amazingly until today's update. they completely gutted it. There is no longer a compass feature, the search feature has also been destroyed, it will no longer guide you to the proper location. its a real shame they completely destroyed such a nice app, but now it's completely worthless. Edit: The "show compass" button doesn't work. A tiny compass comes up in the top right, but if you try to click it nothing happens. In order to use the compass, enable 'tilt' and throw ur phone.

Though, it is still a powerful app - the newly updated graphics are sub-par. They're so simple that they're confusing. They're not as intuitive as the older version. Please, revert. Also, the app does not accurately represent my ground coordinates. It's, off, by several degrees. I live on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. I have to set my location, to - somewhere - out, in the Atlantic Ocean, east, of Cape Cod to get accurate results.

I like how I can use skyportal with my nexstar se. Lately I have been unable to calibrate the scope when I'm connected and its finding the planets I tell the app to go too. In the beginning I would just calibrate and after that, I didnt have to manually find anything but now the calibration doesn't work and throws a plate error. Also, the minute you go out of the app or the screen turns off, its game over and you have to start over. So much potential with this app celestron. Get it together!

What’s new

Version 4 introduces a new look, and enhanced object databases!