SkEye | Astronomy

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 hi.skeye@gmail.com.

‣ 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

Recent changes:
* 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