SkyView® Lite

Terminal Eleven

Contains ads

About this app

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

***Google Editor's Choice 2017***

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.
• 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!
• Supports Space Navigator™ binoculars, spotting scope, and telescopes.

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

Ratings and reviews

It was working great. Opened the app and pointed at the sky and it shows everything spinning to the right. Aimed to the southern hemisphere and it spins to the left. It wouldn't focus on any single point, just sounds away from what I was trying to look at. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and that did nothing. It told it was recalibrating the camera twice. How does that take nearly an hour? Worked great until it didn't. Gonna try something else.

Nice app. When I first downloaded and tried it, the compass settings (and sky) didn't line up with reality - ie. South showed up as though I was looking northeast. A few days later though, it worked perfectly. The graphics on this app are really good. If you hover over a star, satellite, or planet, it gives you info on it. In the case of planets and satellites it expands the planet or star into an image of it. If you hover near constellation it connects the stars with lines and an image.

Great app. Easy to use and does what it's supposed to do. Graphics are good quality. Fantastic music. Ads only appear occasionally when the app launches or when changing a setting. The one thing I'd wish for is more customization options.

What's new

Dear Stargazer,
This update corrects minor bugs.