SkySafari 7 Pro

Simulation Curriculum Corp.

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About this app

SkySafari makes stargazing a simple pleasure. It has the largest database of any astronomy app, includes every solar system object ever discovered, offers unparalleled accuracy, advanced planning and logging tools, flawless telescope control, and provides the very best experience under the stars when you depend on it. Don’t postpone joy. Discover why SkySafari is the #1 recommended astronomy app for serious amateur astronomers since 2009.

Here's what’s new in version 7:

+ Complete support for Android 10 and up. Version 7 brings a new and immersive stargazing experience.

+ Events Finder - go to the new Events section to unlock a powerful search engine that finds astronomical events visible tonight and far into the future. The finder dynamically generates a listing of moon phases, eclipses, planetary moon events, meteor showers and planetary phenomenon such as conjunctions, elongations and oppositions.

+ Notifications - the notifications section has been completely revamped to allow you to customize and manage which events trigger an alert notification on your device.

+ Telescope Support - telescope control is at the heart of SkySafari. Version 7 takes a giant leap forward by supporting ASCOM Alpaca and INDI. These next generation control protocols allow you to effortlessly connect to hundreds of compatible astronomical devices.

Stargazing is often done on your own but looking up at the stars reminds us that we are all part of a larger interconnected universe. SkySafari 7 brings social stargazing to mobile devices with two new features to help you connect with other like minded people.

OneSky - allows you to see what other users are observing, in real time. This feature highlights objects in the sky chart and indicates with a number how many users are observing a particular object.

SkyCast - allows you to guide a friend or group around the night sky through their own copy of SkySafari. After initiating SkyCast, you can generate a link and conveniently share it with other SkySafari users via text message, apps or social media accounts.

+ Sky Tonight - jump to the new Tonight section to see what’s visible in your sky tonight. Expanded information has been designed to help plan your night and includes Moon & Sun info, calendar curations, events and the best positioned deep sky and solar system objects.

+ Improved Observation Tools - SkySafari is the perfect tool to help you plan, record and organize your observations. New workflows make it easier to add, search, filter and sort data.

The Small Touches:

+ You can now edit the Jupiter GRS Longitude Value in the Settings.
+ Better Moon Age calculation.
+ New grid & reference options allow you to display Solstice and Equinox markers, Orbit + Node markers for all solar system objects, and tick marks and labels for the Ecliptic, Meridian, and Equator reference lines.
+ Previous In-app Purchases are Now Free - this includes the H-R diagram, 3D Galaxy view, and the PGC galaxy and GAIA star catalogs. Enjoy.
+ Many more.

If you haven't used SkySafari 7 Pro before, here's what you can do with it:

+ Hold your device up, and SkySafari 7 Pro will find stars, constellations, planets, and more! The star chart updates automatically with your movements for the ultimate stargazing experience.

+ Simulate the night sky up to 100,000 years in the past or future! Animate meteor showers, conjunctions, eclipses, and other celestial events.

+ Control your telescope, log and plan your observations.

+ Optionally backup all of your observing data in our secure cloud storage and make it easily accessible to multiple devices as well as from our new web interface, LiveSky.com.

+ Night Mode turns the screen red to preserve your eye's ability to see faint objects.

+ Orbit Mode. Leave the Earth’s surface behind, and fly through our solar system.

+ Galaxy View shows the position of deep sky objects in our Milky Way!

+ Much more!

Ratings and reviews

Edit: There is a way to hide the Premium Only content. I just did not see it. On the Sky Tonight Page if you hit the arrows top right you can toggle off the Premium Sections. Review changed to 4 stars (minus one for Subscriptions in a premium app) Original review: Not liking all of the in your face Premium Subscription stuff. I have no desire to subscribe to apps, especially after paying for the app. Please offer a way to hide the Premium only content...

I used Stellarium Mobile for years but bought this for telescope control, but holy moly, this is so much better in just about every way. It provides pictures of almost everything you can search for, it highlights deep space objects in a non intrusive way which makes locating stuff crazy easy, and it has far more objects turned on by default (whereas it was always a pain getting the right catalog loaded into stellarium). I'm super happy with this, definitely the premier sky finder app.

Love the app after they fixed their initial issue with notifications! Original Review: Notifications need some serious work! My phone is on vibrate and it still plays sound. I also set a do not disturb timeframe of 1 am to 9pm - so basically daylight and when I'll be in bed. I think it's reversing those times because I keep getting alerts in the day and saw nothing last night (from 9pm to 1am). Otherwise, the refreshed layout from the previous version looks way more polished. I like it.

What's new

Many stability improvements
Improved Comet visualization
Improved Night Vision contrast
Fixed ObjectInfo bug on tablets
New! Abell and Zwicky Galaxy Clusters
New! Support for more types of Special Events (including Comet Atlas).
Updated NGC-IC database (June 2024)
Updated PGC database
Updated planet positions to use DE-440 (latest and greatest from JPL)
Fixed position of Phoebe
Many more database name/position fixes.