Our Galaxy was a books & reference app developed by Otherwise Software. It was removed from Google Play Aug 17, 2024 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Our Galaxy had been downloaded 99 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Our Galaxy was rated 4.24 out of 5 stars, based on 320 ratings.
App Information
Our Galaxy was free to download. The APK download size was 24.73 MB. The last available version was 2.1. The last update was on August 12, 2021.
Technical Requirements
Our Galaxy required Android 6.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play May 2021.
Description
Our Galaxy is a unique app for both amateur astronomers and astronomy educators. It helps you visualize the 3-dimensional locations of deep sky objects in and around our galaxy, and provides you with an understanding of their physical properties. It addition, it illustrates the structural components of the Galaxy, including the thin disk, thick disk, galactic bulge and stellar halo.
The 3-D interface allows you to see where the cluster or nebula of interest is located relative to the center and plane of the Galaxy. By panning around, or moving closer to or farther away from the object, you derive a sense of where the object really is in 3-dimensional space.
The app enhances the observing experience by helping the user arrive at an intuitive sense of physical location, size, luminosity, and distance for the chosen object. It also serves as a great tool for education and outreach with its unusual visual perspective on the location of deep sky objects and their relationship to the center and plane of our galaxy.
See more videos and screenshots at the otherwise.com website.
Our Galaxy is available on all major platforms.
Recent changes: • Improvements to the display of Search results. • Search panel remembers previous search parameters. Use Reset to clear them. • Added Proxima Centauri to database. Even though it's fainter than the 6th mag cutoff, it is special as the closest star other than the Sun. • Fixed bug where the built-in view for the M81 Group was showing the Centaurus group by mistake. • Miscellaneous small tweaks to database. • Miscellaneous small UI tweaks.
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★★★★★
I am a pretty serious stargazer and I really like this Our Galaxy. What this app does is provide a realistic 3D view of the Milky way and even other nearby galaxies. When I look up at the night sky or other apps, I just see a 2D view. It's wonderful but the stars and objects all seem like they are right there together when they maybe millions of light years apart. Our galaxy provides zoomable, rotatable views our galaxy with stars, nebulae, and clusters, it can also show other galaxies
★★★★★
Twinkling little stars, we all wonder what they are looking upward at cloudless moonless night. Make constitutions out of our dreams. In this age, we dream to catch them. Like middle age, when people wonder how our earth's map looks like, we wonder about the map of nearby stars, farthest stars. When these will be as clean as general knowledge, next generation may wonder the map of thr universe.
★★☆☆☆
Too bad I was not thinking this app is bad. But it's to to to bad. Very bad Animation. It's not whole 3d. And I can't found solar system olny sun. Very, very bad game. 😠😠👎👎 Olny sun and star not even black holes in this game. Very worst app
★★☆☆☆
I love astronomy, but this is not how I wanted this app to be...
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