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

I have been using this app for years at a time. It is one of the, if not the best astronomy app I have seen. I finally decided to write a review because I wanted to request a viewing mode that mimicks the real sky by giving it seeing effects and twinkling and abberations. it would give the visual effect of stargazing through an app. It would look incredible. I would love this, and I'm sure many others would. 🌌

If you don't need anything fancy like an app to aim your telescope, this is far and away the best what-is-in-the-night-sky app. And has the best graphics — love the defraction spikes & colors that help stars stand out from other objects. I would enjoy images when zoomed in on planets & nebulae, but that's not what SkEye is for. Fantastic customization options. Intuitive UI. And only 15MB. Its only real shortcoming is a strange dearth of moons around outer planets. (Doesn't zoom in far enough?)

Skeye rocks! 5 minutes to convert an Astroscan schmoo into a push-to ball of fun! Hardest part was figuring out how to bungee my phone onto the all-curves Astroscan. Great interface, the right data, easy alignments, if you've had your astro fun limited by difficulty knowing where to aim your scope, Skeye will fix that for you for free!

What’s new

Major change!

The app now lets the user update the comet data through the internet without waiting for me to package a new release. To update the data go to Settings -> Catalogs -> Comets and click "Update".

Note: This feature requires the Internet permission. I resisted adding the feature for so long because I wanted to avoid the Internet permission. But given that interesting comets have been appearing in quick succession, I had to support this feature along with the additional permission.