Great app
Used for a few years, really easy to use and amazing what’s over your head day and night.
GoSkyWatch Planetarium iPad
Go Explore the Night Sky
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Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations, galaxies and more by simply pointing to the sky. Your personal telescope to the wonders in the night sky. Go outside and explore the night sky.
***** As seen in Apple's iPad 2 event
***** Featured on ABC's "The View"
***** Featured in "Wired" magazine
--- What People Are Saying
"Powerful and easy to use, with excellent animation and the widest zoom range." — D.Schroeder, University professor
"GoSkyWatch Planetarium should not be missed regardless of whether you are a casual or hard-core fan of astronomy." — AppAdvice
"I have more than 10 astronomy apps on my iPhone and this is by far the best. Everything I need and easy to use." — Pat, iTunes reviewer
--- What makes GoSkyWatch different to other apps?
• Easy to use — No buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring.
• Designed specially for efficient outdoor use.
• Touch free identification — Information pops up on screen as you move. Great for those cold nights with gloves on!
• Popup images — No need to keep zooming in and out just to see what is out there.
• Full 180 degree display — See at a glance what is in the sky and where without having to pan around.
• Don't need to hold level — Displays the sky view and information at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait.
• Gyroscope compass auto calibration — No need to calibrate the gyroscope. Advanced adaptive algorithms for smooth and accurate positioning.
• Planets shown with relative brightness to stars — No oversized graphics that prevent you from distinguishing a planet from surrounding stars.
• Unique target identification — Touch drag scheme for greatest accuracy since your finger doesn't hide what you are trying to identify.
• Minimal on screen text — Stars and planets easier to identify since they are not covered by text.
Features:
Identify
• On screen object name, brightness and distance
• Contains all stars visible to the naked eye
• Light adjustment for viewing conditions
• Touchless navigation even for the iPod touch without a compass.
Find
• Looking for a planet, star, constellation or galaxy? Just use the finder and let the arrow guide the way
• Search stars and DSOs sorted by name, distance or magnitude
• Moon phase calendar
• Sun rise/set times
Explore
• Day, sidereal and time lapse animation
• Over 200 images of planets and deep sky objects
• Messier and Caldwell catalogs with images
• Actual image taken of the Milky Way
• Below horizon display
• Look back in time with the birthday star search. Find out how old you were for the star light seen.
Learn
• Constellation images, boundaries and patterns
• Solar system, star, DSO, constellation Wikipedia
• Ian Ridpath's constellation StarTales
• Interactive graphical ephemeris
• Planet, star, constellation and DSO ephemeris data
More
• High performance graphics
• Easy setup using auto location or built in city list
• Location favorites
* No internet connection required. Internet optionally used for auto location, viewing Wikipedia information and StarTales.
Free International Space Station real time tracking and viewing opportunities available with the companion GoISSWatch app. We don't charge in-app purchases for that!
This free version contains banner ads. The full paid version with added features does not contain banner ads.
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***** As seen in Apple's iPad 2 event
***** Featured on ABC's "The View"
***** Featured in "Wired" magazine
--- What People Are Saying
"Powerful and easy to use, with excellent animation and the widest zoom range." — D.Schroeder, University professor
"GoSkyWatch Planetarium should not be missed regardless of whether you are a casual or hard-core fan of astronomy." — AppAdvice
"I have more than 10 astronomy apps on my iPhone and this is by far the best. Everything I need and easy to use." — Pat, iTunes reviewer
--- What makes GoSkyWatch different to other apps?
• Easy to use — No buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring.
• Designed specially for efficient outdoor use.
• Touch free identification — Information pops up on screen as you move. Great for those cold nights with gloves on!
• Popup images — No need to keep zooming in and out just to see what is out there.
• Full 180 degree display — See at a glance what is in the sky and where without having to pan around.
• Don't need to hold level — Displays the sky view and information at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait.
• Gyroscope compass auto calibration — No need to calibrate the gyroscope. Advanced adaptive algorithms for smooth and accurate positioning.
• Planets shown with relative brightness to stars — No oversized graphics that prevent you from distinguishing a planet from surrounding stars.
• Unique target identification — Touch drag scheme for greatest accuracy since your finger doesn't hide what you are trying to identify.
• Minimal on screen text — Stars and planets easier to identify since they are not covered by text.
Features:
Identify
• On screen object name, brightness and distance
• Contains all stars visible to the naked eye
• Light adjustment for viewing conditions
• Touchless navigation even for the iPod touch without a compass.
Find
• Looking for a planet, star, constellation or galaxy? Just use the finder and let the arrow guide the way
• Search stars and DSOs sorted by name, distance or magnitude
• Moon phase calendar
• Sun rise/set times
Explore
• Day, sidereal and time lapse animation
• Over 200 images of planets and deep sky objects
• Messier and Caldwell catalogs with images
• Actual image taken of the Milky Way
• Below horizon display
• Look back in time with the birthday star search. Find out how old you were for the star light seen.
Learn
• Constellation images, boundaries and patterns
• Solar system, star, DSO, constellation Wikipedia
• Ian Ridpath's constellation StarTales
• Interactive graphical ephemeris
• Planet, star, constellation and DSO ephemeris data
More
• High performance graphics
• Easy setup using auto location or built in city list
• Location favorites
* No internet connection required. Internet optionally used for auto location, viewing Wikipedia information and StarTales.
Free International Space Station real time tracking and viewing opportunities available with the companion GoISSWatch app. We don't charge in-app purchases for that!
This free version contains banner ads. The full paid version with added features does not contain banner ads.
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User Rating
4.46 out of 5
246 ratings in Australia
5 star
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4 star
56
3 star
14
2 star
6
1 star
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Sky sky
I love this app it will be fun because it is fun and helpful for planning when you should use your telescope.
How the hell do you think ads will work in dark mode
Happily supported and used the app, now they insist on ads being very visible...happy to have supported the previous version...but now you have a red night sky with white ads...you guys just stuffed your own app
Hate ads. Hate this app.
Deleted straight away.
Just
Brilliant!
What is this?
I meant "why do I need a title for a review", but it fits - it's I very non-intuitive. You can't see how to get to see stars' names (not displayed), how to stop gyration (if you misunderstood a brief offer to do that) how to ... The only thing you can't miss is the offer for a full version download...! The best thing about this kind of apps is the is easy to elected them ...
Go sky!
Fun and educational never drops, easy to use and navigate
Awesome
Well done. Wonderful app.
Yes
Awesome App
Top App
I wanted to find out what the 2 distinct stars near the moon were tonight and downloaded GoSkyWatch. What a brilliant app! The brightest one was actually Venus and the other one was Jupiter. That has made my day! Thanks for making such an incredible and informative app :)
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App Info
- Category
- Education
- Publisher
- GoSoftWorks Development Co.
- Languages
- Spanish, German, Chinese, Danish, French, English, Italian, Japanese, Dutch
- Recent version
- 9.4.0 (3 years ago )
- Released on
- Apr 1, 2010 (14 years ago )
- Also available in
- Germany, United States, China, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Taiwan, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Denmark, India, South Africa, Russia, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Thailand, Philippines, Poland, Ireland, Argentina, Colombia, Norway, Greece, Czechia, Turkey, Singapore, Hungary, Malaysia, Israel, Indonesia, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Peru, Chile, Romania, Ecuador, Ukraine, Pakistan, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Algeria, Dominican Republic, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nigeria, Belarus
- Last updated
- 3 weeks ago