Celestron SkyPortal

Published by: Celestron
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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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Celestron SkyPortal Reviews

It’s a great app

Teeheehheehee on

United States

It shows all stars planets and other celestial bodies in the sky you can even search them up and see information about them also if you go to somewhere in 500,00 bc at like 5 am you can go through the years and see the moon crash into earth for some reason

A piece of garbage and a waste of money!

Zman77 on

United States

This system has been the bane of my existence! I’ve never been able to get it to work right. One problem leads directly to another! If I could return it I would! What should be a pleasurable hobby and learning experience has resulted in nothing but frustration! Do not buy this system!

Uses Notifications for Ads

ArbronIssarooth on

United States

Decent app and works to control my telescope, but they are using notifications for advertisements which is bad.

Wonky controls

Leemurz on

United States

Yet another night foiled by telescope controls that are inconsistently laggy (both on iPhone and iPad) so that alignment becomes an untenable task. Please update the software or control responsiveness.

You send me advertising push notifications, I rate you no stars.

JByer323 on

United States

Do better.

Not helpful

LOOOOL on

United States

The inaccurate compass feature ruins the app for me.

Incredibly frustrating!

VFDirector on

United States

None of the videos Celestron provides show me how to use this app! I have no idea how I’m supposed to use this to align my telescope. I think the iPhone version of the app I have must be faulty because I don’t have any controls on the screen and I don’t know what I’m doing. Please Celestron, put out an educational video that explains step-by-step how to use this app.

Has a major issue!

netsurfr1 on

United States

Discovered that the app has a bug where it does not show any Deep Sky Objects (nebulae, galaxies) on the sky chart. I tried every single option in settings to make them visible but nothing works. You can search for them and then it will center them BUT no luck in getting DSOs to show up in charts. I found a review from 2 years ago complaining about the same thing so not a recent issue so guessing Celestron is not planning on fixing it. I bought the wifi adapter for my 6SE to use this app to find and slew my scope to objects in the sky but without seeing DSOs on sky chart that severely limits it. Too bad. Will be returning the wifi adapter.

App is simplistic perfection

Jm the Duke on

United States

I was introduced to sky portal when I got a celestron go to telescope a short time ago and it’s become my primary astronomy app since it easy to use, contains a through library of visible objects in the night sky of the northern hemisphere and with the compass mode gives you a rough view of the sky you are looking at in real time, my only recommendations for anyone using this app would be to use it on a iPad or tablet over a smartphone as the arrow keys used to slew a telescope and the crosshairs used to target an object can be tricky to use on the smaller screen. It would be nice if there were more satellites and objects listed maybe that’s what Sky Safari Pro is for and I may upgrade one day but at the moment Sky Portal meets the means for my backyard astronomical observations. App is 4 stars

Needs red mode

PyroRaptor on

United States

I’m surprised that a telescope control app does not include a mode to change its color scheme to shades of red. This app has either full color or grayscale. The “Star Chart” app has a red mode to help preserve your night vision while showing a chart of the night sky wherever you point it, but isn’t designed to communicate with and control a telescope like SkyPortal. Please add red mode to let us control our telescopes without destroying our night vision. That will raise this review to five stars.

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App Info

Category
Education
Publisher
Celestron
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
Recent release
3.5.0 (1 year ago )
Released on
May 22, 2014 (10 years ago )
Last Updated
5 days ago
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