Dear devs
This an incredible app and I love it but tonight i noticed that the Big Dipper is flipped horizontally showing Polaris at the “bottom” relatively speaking when it should be at the top. Just something I noticed.
Celestron SkyPortal
Published by: Celestron
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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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
3.53 out of 5
49 ratings in Canada
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Pros and Cons
I like the “Best Tonight” feature, and some of the search and navigation options, but I cannot stand that the app design hasn’t been updated since the iPhone 8. It doesn’t fill the screen, and even in low-light-vision-preserving “night mode” it leaves the time/battery/signal strength full white at the top.
Transforms stargazing
This app is amazing! Linked to the telescope by Celestron’s SkyPortal module, it leverages your smartphone’s GPS to seamlessly enter location, time, etc. so you can be stargazing within seconds. With a touch of the finger, you can get the scope to effortlessly slew to all the targets you want to see, and to quickly go back and forth to compare, say, two different globular clusters. While observing a target, this app allows you to listen to an audio description which really enhances the viewing experience.
Worked perfectly fine until it didn’t
Newest version crashes on start for iOS 13.6
Not the best......
Not working properly, sky not showing ....terrible app
Great app but a suggestion
I really love this app and absolutely love celesteon telescopes but I have a suggestion for the app, if you could please add the positions of the starlink satellite train and maybe even have an option to show the path all visible satellites are taking so people trying to take photographs can better plan out there night, I think it would make this app even better ! For anyone looking for an app that shows you the night sky and the position of all the planets, stars and more, look no further this app is the way to go !
Time of day off by 3 hours
The App shows Jupiter and Saturn below the horizon at my correct time and location when I can clearly see them. If i advance the time by 3 hours they are correctly shown. A competitor App shows them correctly
No Deep Sky Objects
Just downloaded this app to reinstall for the 4th time because no deep sky objects show up. Come on guys, this is a deal breaker and very sloppy product maintenance. Fix this problem now. It is imperitive in order to be able to properly control my EDGE HD8. There is no excuse for this error!!!! No more stars until this fixed!
Langue
Vous dites en français.....je ne vois aucun endroit pour passer de l’Anglais au Français. Svp... Besoin de savoir ...merci
How to assemble
Can you please add a how to assemble video on the app because in the instruction manual you just throw me random part names and there is not image to tell me what you are talking about.
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NASA
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112
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SkyView®
Explore the Universe
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260
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3 months ago | |
Star Map Tracker: Night Sky
Solar system
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6
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3 months ago | |
Satellite Tracker by Star Walk
ISS Live Now Finder, Starlink
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86
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9 months ago | |
SkySafari
Astronomy Guide To Night Sky
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24
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3 months ago | |
Stellarium Mobile - Star Map
Watch night sky, find stars
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47
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1 month ago | |
SkySafari 7 Plus
Astronomy Guide To Night Sky
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3
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3 months ago | |
SkySafari 7 Pro
Astronomy Guide To Night Sky
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22
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3 months ago | |
Sky Tonight: Astronomy Guide
Constellation Star Finder App
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24
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1 week ago |
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App Info
- Category
- Education
- Publisher
- Celestron
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
- Recent version
- 3.5.0 (1 year ago )
- Released on
- May 22, 2014 (10 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, China, Mexico, France, Switzerland, India, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Vietnam, South Korea, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, Hong Kong, South Africa, Argentina, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Poland, Philippines, Norway, Netherlands, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Belgium, Peru, Czechia, Denmark, Israel, Greece, New Zealand, Ukraine, Taiwan, Dominican Republic, Hungary, Finland, Egypt, Kuwait, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Algeria, Ecuador, Ireland, Portugal, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Nigeria
- Last updated
- 3 days ago