SkyView® Explore the Universe

Terminal Eleven LLC

About this app

You don't need to be an astronomer to find stars or constellations in the sky, just open SkyView® and let it guide you to their location and identify them. SkyView® is a beautiful and intuitive stargazing app that uses your camera to precisely spot and identify celestial objects in sky, day or night. Find all 88 constellations as they fade in and out while you scan across the sky, locate every planet in our solar system, discover distant galaxies, and witness satellite fly-bys.

***An AppsZoom Best Android App 2014***

Features:

• Simple: Point your device at the sky to identify galaxies, stars, constellations, planets, and satellites (including the ISS and Hubble) passing overhead at your location.
• Night Mode: Preserve your night vision with red or green night mode filters.
• Augmented Reality (AR): Use your camera to spot objects in the sky, day or night.
• Sky Paths: Follow the sky track for any object to see it’s exact location in the sky on any date and time.
• Comprehensive: Includes thousands of stars, planets, and satellites with thousands of interesting facts.
• Time Travel: Jump to the future or the past and see the sky on different dates and times.
• Social: Capture and share beautiful images with friends and family on social networks.
• Mobile: WiFi is NOT required (does not require a data signal or GPS to function). Take it camping, boating, or even flying!

What a fun way to teach yourself, your children, your students, or your friends about our wonderful universe!

Ratings and reviews

I wish I could input my own coordinates rather than automatically checking it or the limited selections to choose from. Otherwise this is a perfect app for stargazing. Red night filter. You can view space objects and debris such as satellites or ejected boosters. Augmented reality is a great feature so you can perfectly identify the star or planet. I love it and use it more than the others.

I don't recommend the app for Android / Samsung devices. I’ve been using the app for years across multiple devices, and I really love it. However, on my Samsung S24+ phone instead of stars and planets you see dark gray opaque squares, along with a rectangle in the center of the screen. When constellations are turned on, I also see dark gray shapes. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app but it didn't help. My email to SkyView support went unanswered.

I have played with about a dozen of similar apps, liking SkyView and Stellarium the most and finding all the others notably less desirable. The most important criteria for me has been how easy it is to match up the displayed stars with reality and how hard it is on the eyes to switch back and forth. Suggestions for improvements: * Make the constellation art more dimmed (or dimmable) so that it does not overpower the other displayed information. * Similarly, make the thickness of the constellation lines configurable. * Implement a quick-switch display menu, like in Stellarium or Sky Map, so that users do not have to go through multiple clicks to switch on/off constellation lines, art, trajectories, satellites, etc. Ideally a single click from a slide-out menu should do. * Allow the display to to adjust when holding the phone horizontally. Currently the the identified star/constellation name is fixed on the bottom of the display (when held vertically). When the phone is rotated, the name stays in the same location, where it gets obstructed by the hand holding the phone, and the text direction becomes now vertical.

What's new

Dear Stargazer,
This version adds a new 8K resolution star field background when the AR camera is turned off (Settings > Display > Augmented Reality Camera). Enjoy!
Best,
Terminal Eleven