Celestron SkyPortal - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Celestron’s newest planetarium app is an astronomy suite that redefines how you experience the night sky. Explore the Solar System, 120,000 stars, over 200 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites—including the ISS. SkyPortal includes everything you need to experience the night sky in an exciting new way. When connected to a compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, you can automatically point the telescope to any object in the database and view it with great detail.

Planetarium Features
Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.

•Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
•Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
•Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
•Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
•Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
•Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
•Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
•Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.
Computerized Telescope Control
Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.

SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.

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User Rating

3.43 out of 5

47 ratings in Australia

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Does not align - useless

This app made me quit stargazing. It’s so frustrating, wifi disconnects, and it simply won’t align. The ux is terrible and it should be this hard to use.

Wifi

This app drops out more than it works!!!

Great but needs an update

Please celestron, spend some money and upgrade this app! iPhone 10+ support, a more modern design, and latest SkySafari data. It’s a great app, but needs some love if you still want to sell SkyPortal wifi adaptors!

Terrible

The app disconnect the whole time and you lose your alignment.

Good

take a photo outside or in your back yard and show plantes in space.👍😃😛

Fantastic.

I keep seeing people write in reviews that "WIFI constantly drops out", it doesn’t if you have "auto join network" off on your device. When on it keeps searching for a network and most likely connects again to your home network. Turning off "auto join" will keep your device connected until you switch it off.

Useless

Doesn’t matter how many times I try the connection constantly drops out in direct mode and I can not use the app at all. I get like 10 seconds to move the scope and then it drops and then won’t reconnect. I have the latest iOS, latest app update. I work with gadgets for a living so know my way around them, this is useless. Imagine buying a $3.5k telescope you can’t use. So frustrating beyond imagining.

Terrible!

Does not align properly while using skyportal ...Telescope moved to opposite direction (sometimes 45 degrees apart) from the object! Ugly interface! Never use it again! I am using PWCI on PC remote and very Much accurate ...hand controller is also good!

Frustratingly uncontrollable, DO NOT BUY A TELESCOPE THAT REQUIRES THIS APP

I am fortunate enough that I am still under warranty and may return my celestron telescope so I no longer have to use this terrible terrible app. It is frustrating to control, I have to align every time you turn it on, which requires pressing the left, right, up or down on screen buttons so that a bright star is in view, then aligning it into the center of lense, however this became literally impossible one night after trying for 20 minutes to align. The connection would cut out, the buttons were unresponsive, when I thought I had finally aligned the star the buttons would be ghost-pressed so the telescope spun completely out of alignment. I tried pressing shortly, waiting, so much waiting for the delay.. Every time you minimise the app, you will need to reallign. You can’t track the planets that move quickly without alignment. I am beyond angry and this $1000 telescope is ruined by a terrible horrible painful app!!!!!! 0 stars!!!

TERRIBLE

super confusing can't understand a single thing

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