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'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

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.

Ok star map. PUSHTO function simply doesn't work. It will barely locate the saved alignment points and won't get within field of view of searched targets. It would work much better if the view axis could be rotated 90° to view along the phone's longitudinal axis, rather than the camera axis. Then, the phone could be aligned in a mount like a finder, with no need for complex alignments that never actually work.

What's new

* Improvements to the Telrad (Cross-hair) labels. They are now more opaque (brighter) than the circles, and the font size has been increased too.
* The Diameter sign (⌀) is now shown beside the angle shown on the Telrad circles. This is to avoid confusion between radius and diameter of the circles.
* Fixed UI height in landscape screen orientation
* Fixed display of RA co-ordinate when TimeMachine is active in Manual scrolling mode