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Android Aims for the Stars with Google Sky Map

Mail This Slide. To see your saved stories, click on link hightlighted in bold. I found three that I think are worth noting. The app even tries to show the relative brightness of objects to help you identify them when you look up at the night sky. You can also use the app to search for the location of a star, planet, or constellation and see it on a map of the night sky. A demo of the app can be seen in the video below warning, the background music borders on annoying.

15 Best Stargazing Apps for iPhones and Androids

Like the other apps in this list SkyView for iPad uses your location to show you the stars, planets, and satellites that are viewable from your location. Outlines of the constellations are included in the overlay to help you identify the objects that you should be seeing. If you want to know what you will be able to see on a future night, just change the date and SkyView will show you what you will be able to see on that date.

The options menus are clear and easy to find and adjusting my location my location setting was a bit off, but it always is at home was easy to do too. A galaxy of apps that put space in the palm of your hand A galaxy of apps that put space in the palm of your hand.

Here we round up the best apps for iPhone, iPad and Android to help you navigate the night sky. Among the apps here featuring star maps, Distant Suns is the easiest to use and best looking. The app opens into an image of the stars overhead that actually looks like space. From there, you can focus on specific objects from a wide-ranging menu.

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Click Planets or Constellations and a submenu pops up, allowing you to pick particular ones that you want to find the location of. The app then zooms in on your selection and you can bring up some statistics for it. In addition to all that, a newsfeed from Astronomy Magazine runs along the top of the screen. The free version of Distant Suns for Android is slightly different, offering a live wallpaper that orients to the position of the stars around you.

Google Sky maps can be accessed from web browser, desktop and Android mobile phones. However, they are not available on app store. From web browser, you can navigate to Google Sky.

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• Advanced Maps.
• A hand-held planetarium for your Android & iOS device.

You can use your cursor to click-hold and drag in order to move to a new location. If you use the desktop version of Google Earth, click on the planet button on the top of the Google Earth application window. Google Sky uses featured layer content in Google Earth. You can search for constellations and other heavenly bodies by typing the keywords in the search box.

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On Android, you need to go into the Sky Map application. Sky Map app is no more supported by Google and is now open-source. Unfortunately, Google Sky Maps are not available on app store. However, you can access sky maps through an alternative way.

There is an app which you can use, however. This is the most beautiful stargazing app that works like Google Sky maps for iPhone users.

After launching the app, you need to point your iPhone at the night sky and you will see the stars, planets, satellites and constellations in their proper place from your location.