Sky Map app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
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Developer: Mobius Entertainment
Free
Current version: 1.3, last update: 8 years agoFirst release : 28 Jun 2012
App size: 39.86 Mb
Sky Map turns your iPhone or iPad into a window on the night sky.
All you have to do is point your device at the sky and the Sky Map will tell you exactly what you are looking at.
Displays stars, planets, moon phases, constellations, messier objects and meteor showers.
iPod Touch not supported due to lack of compass.
Pros and cons of Sky Map app for iPhone and iPad
Sky Map app good for
Has all the features I want except the ability to set the date and time and place that you want displayed. This is necessary to plan your star gazing events. As far as I can see, you can only display the current date and time and your current location (at least in the free version).
I hope we spot planet 9 and get it on this app. I would like to know where the "wrecking ball" of the solar system is.
Pretty fast, effective and good looking. Does what it should, how it should :)
Maybe give out little updates on the accuracy a little, nothing big. 1 thing, could you please indicate the center of the milky way galaxy? Theres a supermassive black hole there I want to pin-point pleease!
Love this app for myself and the kids! Been searching for something like this online. We tried it out at home indoors, not out a window, and then we verified what we saw on the iPad. The kids were yelling with excitement from the back of the house to the front and then back again. This will come in handy when their a little older as well but its nice that theyre enthusiastic now. Whenever we walk at night the kids are always asking what the constellations are, and I tell them what I know, which is very limited. Now we can see more, plus I saw a shooting star as well. Very cool.
When i go to open the app it shows Sky Map for like 2 seconds and then
closes please fix
Some bad moments
I got this app about 2 years ago and I loved it! Used it very often to identify planets and their positions. Very interesting!
Opened it several times in the last few months, deleted and reinstalled it twice, and cannot even use it anymore because it jumps around as I move it across the sky, and is no where close to accurate!
I point it right at the moon, and theres no moon on the map. Try to adjust it and it jumps all over and jerks back to same location, that Im not even viewing!
Im so very disappointed, as I really loved the app. Im deleting it now, but will check back later to see if the bugs have been fixed! Hopefully, it will be fixed soon!!??
Nice app. How do you make the font bigger for night time readability?
Can I use it offline? Like if Im camping where there is no cell tower?
It was working perfectly for ages. Im opened it tonight and its not moving with the sky, I had to move it manually. I dont know what happened, its broken.
I understand that youre supposed to be able to point your phone at the sky and it is supposed to tell you what youre looking at but it really doesnt work at all. I figured Id try pointing it at the moon and the moon isnt even on the screen. Its down to the right below the horizon in the app even though Im looking directly at it.
Bunk.
After load, Sky Map requested permission to track my location when app is closed; I declined. Sky Map then disabled location always. I would have to manually enter any gps coordinates!
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