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SkyObject app for iPhone and iPad


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Utilities Education
Developer: Francesco Tripicchio
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.6, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 25 Sep 2012
App size: 35.28 Mb

With SkyObject have a planetarium in your pocket, you can view and search Planets, Stars, Galaxies (Messier) on a database of over 9,000 items. Once you have found your item you can just point it with a tap to the coordinates have to be set directly on your telescope or to bring up the information bar, where you can ask for info astronomical. With hundreds of photos, planets and galaxies will be presented properly!

- To the stars, the card includes:
Data that magnitude, right ascension, azimuth, declination, the constellation of belonging and more
- For the planets:
Besides the photos, azimuth and right ascension
- For the galaxies:
The constellation of belonging, distance in light years, magnitude, right ascension, declination, azimuth and beautiful photos (Messier objects are represented on the screen by the blue ellipses)

SkyObject will help you better understand the vastness of the cosmos and its secrets, with simplicity and attention to detail. A unified version for iPhone and iPad with different interfaces, with just one purchase you have the corresponding version also on iPad / iPhone, the HD is already included in the price!

SkyObject has several interfaces to death (for a better view), including:

GPS Interface
- To enable / disable the GPS survey
- Display the latitude and longitude coordinates of the place where we are
- To activate / deactivate the room with Augmented Reality that interacts with Gyroscopic sensors and GPS to provide us with the exact elevation and therefore a proper positioning of what we are looking at the sky

Temporal interface
- Slide the time of the sky at preset speeds, with progress indicators in time, to see the evolution of the path of the objects in the sky in back and forth in time, will provide indicators to show you how much time is spent

Interface settings
With the possibility of:
- Increase the brightness of the sky and of the visible
This will allow you to increase or decrease the visible objects

- Enable / disable the graphics of constellations
The stars belonging to the constellations are shown graphically

- Enable / disable the nomenclature of objects
Planets, stars and Messier objects are displayed with their names

- Enable / disable the celestial coordinates of the zoom
Looking for a celestial object, increasing the zoom mode and selecting this you will get the coordinates to set on your Telescope

- Activate / deactivate the night mode
Who the screen seemed too bright during the observations

In addition, the possibility to search for planets, Galaxies,(messier objects), stars in a database of over 9000 items

I wish you good comments!