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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4.48 out of 5

543 ratings in Canada

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Too bad because its a cool app

FrenchieQC on

If you want to have a Google banner permanently at the bottom of the screen this is the app for you

So much potential

League director on

I haven’t been able to use the ap for some time as the compass and calibrations just won’t work. I used to love this program. I’ve tried everything to get it to work

Annonces au bas

Fic12 on

Déguellasse! Les annonces Google sont inappropriées!

Great Visualisation

Wiseoopik on

This is a wonderful app to use to introduce family members to astronomy. Just enough info and clear star charts.

L’inspiration des étoiles!

!Astro on

Merci pour cette application qui nous fait découvrir l’éternité !astro66

Cool app

ggfddcvbhhtddcghjj on

Great time with the kids!

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Plat

Great app!

Cozz828 on

Out of all the apps I have, use this one all the time works great and easy to get an understanding of the night sky.

Stars

Comedyflyer on

Just shared this app on Facebook & twitter. Very informative & easy to use...love it.

Awesome night watch with GoSkyWatch

Betty Moore on

This app makes it super easy to answer the question "Is that a star or a planet?" or "What star is that?" when looking up at the night sky. The app locates your position on earth and shows all planets, main stars, constellations and near galaxies in real time. Fantastic!

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App Info

Category
Education
Languages
English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish
Recent version
9.4.0 (3 years ago )
Released on
Apr 1, 2010 (14 years ago )
Last updated
1 week ago