Sky Guide was an education app developed by alcyone software. It was removed from Google Play Feb 26, 2024 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Sky Guide had been downloaded 37 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Sky Guide was rated 1.87 out of 5 stars, based on 260 ratings.
App Information
Sky Guide cost $2.99 to download. The APK download size was 42.37 MB. The last available version was 2.5.1. The last update was on September 23, 2015.
Technical Requirements
Sky Guide required Android 4.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play October 2014.
Description
Sky Guide is an astronomy app for sophisticated star enthusiasts and hobby astronomers who value well-founded and precise astronomical illustrations and data.
The basic app function displays a detailed, scalable and fully user-configurable celestial map with constellations and celestial objects (limit magnitude up to 6.3) that are visible with the naked eye or smaller telescopes. The place and time of observation as well as the direction of view can be manually configured by the user or automatically with the so-called “Live mode” (i.e. GPS, real-time and compass-guided).
Detailed additional information is available for every celestial object (fixed star, deep sky object, planet, moon, sun, meteorite shower). The information of the Bright Star Catalog and the Washington Double Star Catalog is made available for fixed stars. Additionally, users can add notes and links for every object.
The powerful search function makes it possible to align the map to a specific celestial object or guide the observer – in „live mode“ – to an object in the starry sky with specific notices. Searches can be performed according to the traditional name of an object, the catalog designation or the constellation. Moreover, the app makes it easy to identify celestial objects by aligning the device to the object in “Live mode”.
The functionality of the app is complemented by a number of astronomical tools and data, e.g. an astronomical event calculator, an orbit diagram (orrery), a moon viewer (a scalable, orthogonal, geocentric or topocentric moon projection while properly taking the libration, moon phase, position angle and parallactic angle into account) and an ephemerides generator.
Recent changes: * 2.5.1: minor bug fixes * 2.5.0: yearly planetary visibility chart * 2.5.0: performance and UI improvements * 2.4.0: option to add astronomical events to calendar * 2.4.0: shows lunar phase at activity maximum of meteor showers * 2.3.1: option to choose the application language * 2.3.1: fixed issue with automatic location detection * 2.3.0: translation into Italian and German * 2.3.0: performance improvements, improved "Live mode" * 2.3.0: correction for true/magnetic north
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★★★★★
I had 'serendipitously' crossed paths with an old dude as I was passing through, we had coffee and tea as he gave me the best advice with photography, especially night sky photography of the Redone, AZ terrain.he inspected my camera and input a setting "This will allow the most professional astrophotography of the Milky Way from Three Sisters Peaks, but, before you go, download and buy the." Sky Guide App" Follow its directions, I did, "BEST APP EVER!" THANK YOU, Mr. Royce Bair for buying the tea!
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Sky guide android is bullshit. Don't waste your money. Get the iPhone version.
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Does not work on Android devices. Save yourself the money and buy a different app.
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This app does not work, I want a refund. It was a waste of money
★★☆☆☆
This app works very well with Apple or Mac. Not at all good with Android. Look for other apps if you are willing to put in money to buy as a one time purchase. I am not happy and won't recommend this to any android user.
Technologies used by Sky Guide
Sky Guide is requesting 6 permissions and is using 2 libraries.
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