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

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.

I've used this so for years but recently.. perhaps because I changed devices..I no longer have the ability to view the sky as I move my phone. I'm not sure how you refer to that feature but for me that was the reason I used the so... now it only serves as a basic non interactive sky map... and as awesome as that is its just not the same level of awesomeness.... please help me fix this issue if it's on my end... thank you

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?)

What’s new

Fix crash when removing an alignment. It was being caused by a backwards incompatible change in Android libraries.