SkySafari 6 Pro - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

SkySafari 6 Pro will revolutionize your astronomical viewing experience. It has the largest database of any astronomy app, includes every solar system object ever discovered, offers unparalleled accuracy, flawless telescope control, Augmented Reality (AR) mode, and provides the very best experience under the stars when you depend on it. Discover why SkySafari 6 Pro is the #1 recommended astronomy app for serious amateur astronomers since 2009.

Here's what's new in version 6:

1) Complete support for iOS 13 and iPhone 11. We release regular updates.

2) Clouds and Astronomy. Two words that rarely go together. SkySafari 6 Pro will (optionally) back up all of your observing data in our secure cloud storage and make it easily accessible to multiple devices as well as from our new web interface, LiveSky.com.

3) We Have The Best Stars. Precise, modern and deep. We’ve updated our star catalog to use the latest and greatest, UCAC5 star catalog. If 25 million stars down to 15th magnitude isn’t enough for you, an easy in-app purchase gets you down to 16.5 magnitude and a whopping 100 million stars!

4) We Have The Best Galaxies. The PGC catalog includes galaxies down to 18th magnitude. Want more galaxies? How about 2.6 million more? An in-app purchase gives you access to the largest galaxy database available for your device.

5) Observers First. A redesign of our tools puts the active observer first. Quick access to features like your equipment, observing sites, lists, and observations make it easy and enjoyable to get out, observe, and record your observations. The observing sessions feature lets you collect your observations into groups that span a few hours, or a few nights.

6) Graph It. The completely new graph tool will give a quick visual representation of an object’s altitude above the horizon. Essential for planning your night’s observations.

7) Plan It. Make the most of your time under the stars. Our updated planner is a powerful tool that lets you create a list of targets for your observing session with filters like object types, specific time ranges, constellation, catalog, and more. Plan it and get more done.

8) Say It. Ever just wanted to just yell at your device and tell it what to do!? SkySafari 6 adds basic voice control for a wide range of operations. Say “select Jupiter,” “search for Titan,” “center on Polaris” and SkySafari will do the work for you. Yelling optional.

9) Tilt It. Every old astronomy app these days lets your tilt and pan your device to show different parts of the sky, but who else lets you control your telescope that way!? “Tilt to slew” is an optional mode allowing you to keep your eye in the eyepiece, and, using the accelerometers in your device, gently translate the movements of your hands into smooth telescope motion.

10) Share It. SkySafari 6 is more than just a mobile app, it’s a new system to help organize and share your observing experiences. With a free signup, you can see and share your observing data from our web portal, LiveSky.com! Affordable premium memberships add online editing, so you can not only view, but edit your observations, add new observing sites, manage your equipment and more. Finally, (coming soon) you can view, edit and manage your settings files with SkySafari Web, our fully functional web version.

If you haven't used SkySafari 6 Pro before, here's what you can do with it:

• Hold your device up, and SkySafari 6 Pro will find stars, constellations, planets, and more! The star chart updates automatically with your movements for the ultimate stargazing experience.

• Simulate the night sky up to 10,000 years in the past or future! Animate meteor showers, conjunctions, eclipses, and other celestial events.

• Control your telescope, log and plan your observations.

• Night Vision.

• Orbit Mode. Leave the Earth’s surface behind, and fly through our solar system.

• Galaxy View shows the position of deep sky objects in our Milky Way!

• Much more!

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In-Apps

Apollo Lunar Missions

$7.99

PGC Extension Database

$9.99

GAIA Extension Database

$14.99

Interactive H-R Diagram

$4.99

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User Rating

4.78 out of 5

497 ratings in Australia

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Outstanding app that gets better and better.

Best Astronomy app for automated scopes. And it continues to improve with every update. Congratulations!

Astronomy club

SkySafari pro is an excellent app to control telescopes with or just observing the night sky. Have been using to control Celestron Dx Mount for years of public viewing hassle free pin point control 10/10

It’s Ok

For upcoming visible satellite predictions I prefer Luminos, plus I prefer the What’s Up tonight button in Luminos and the accurate real world horizon for planning said satellite observations.... Its hilly towards my west and if they are going to be obscured, can just as easily stay indoors.

Great app

Love it

Generally a really great app...but

Slightly disappointed that the Apple Watch app is a black screen with a little time in the corner. Tracing the problem has only lead to being redirected to support pages of a similar problem but with no fix. Happy to rate higher if this is fixed. The remainder of the app works as advertised and is really robust and feature rich.

Waste of time and money

Every time they update Sky Safari they remove something to later add back as an expensive addon. this used to be an awesome program but now its only aimed at idiots. Ifyou do serious astronomy it no longer works as you expect. For example the target information has removed all but one database so finding something by its catalogue number wont work because all regularly used identifiers have been removed. This means integrating exploration with other programs and common information sources is no longer possible. Tough luck if you want to ever automate an observatory with this tool. Its already and expensive program and used to be only just worth it, but their business model of removing functionality and offering it back as another expensive purchase or subscription on top of the paid app. If you can get a hacked version to test if itll work for now for you then try it, but under no circumstances give these holes money when they will take away the features you use at any time and disabling your current version with no rollback possible. Totally useless to me now. Want my money back or a way to roll back to the previous version which did work.

Great tool for Astrophotography

Well designed and easy to use, massive sky catalogue. If you have a wifi dongle you can even guide through it.

Very unhappy

Pay almost $40 for an app that will not allow me to connect to my SkyWatcher SynScan wifi device😡😡😡😡

Starts fast unlike my Mac version

Works well and starts up fast unlike the macOS version which takes for ever to get going on my MacBook Pro ok once running. Doesn’t have everything but works well controlling my Azeq6 mount

I do like it

I don’t really understand all the settings but I do like exploring the “night sky” with SkySafari Pro.

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Top Paid	Poland Reference	52
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