Simply superb
This has got to be the best Astro app going. SO informative with a great layout and easy to navigate. Even during daylight it’s packed with information and love the layout. Brilliant.
SkySafari 6 Pro
Astronomy Guide To Night Sky
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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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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!
In-Apps
- Apollo Lunar Missions
- £4.99
- PGC Extension Database
- £5.99
- GAIA Extension Database
- £9.99
- Interactive H-R Diagram
- £2.99
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832 ratings in United Kingdom
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Essential app for astronomy.
This is an excellent application full of information needed to enhance the pleasure of astronomy.
Very dissatisfied
Having bought SkySafari Pro 6 about 3 days ago, and already being a Starrynight Pro Plus 8 user for many years, I am now asked to pay for a new version! And I have not even had time to properly evaluate SSP6…..Not happy!
GAIA database won’t install on iPad Pro
Just bought SkySafari 6 Pro and tried to install the GAIA Star Database on my iPad Pro, the blue install progress bar reaches (I would estimate 99%) then stops without completing the installation. I have lots of space on the hard drive. It installed easily on my iPhone 10s Max... ideas?
Mr
It is the best sky view I have ever seen on a IPad How can you better it? I have yet to try it out on my telescope. Keep up the good work Frank
Eq6r-pro
Having followed all the suggestions regarding this mount, the asiair pro and SkySafari, I still cannot get this app to connect to the mount. PLEASE fix this! Thankyou I have eq6r-pro connected to asiair pro via usb cable. Then the air app to air Wi-fi. Tried all variations of the Meade lx 200 suggested; SkySafari still fails to connect!
Worked great, but now crashing/disappearing upon app launch
Bought the app back in the Spring, was working absolutely fine, loved it! BUT, tried launching it today, and upon launching the app, disappeared. I tried restarting my phone just in case it was a one off glitch, but still doing the same thing, crashing or disappearing upon app launch. Highly Fustrating!
A must for GOTO telescope owners
I hardly ever write reviews but felt I had to for this software is brilliant. I use it with a Nexstar 8SE, SkyFI 3 & Starsense Auto align Camera. I purchased this as an upgrade to the free celestron skyportal app which is a barebones version off this. I originally used it with a Celestron Skyportal WiFi dongle but after many disconnects with my set up in skyportal and this I moved to the Skyfi which is totally worth the extra cash to not have to sit out in the dark faffing about with connection issues or crashes due to the celestron wifi dongle. It would be a bonus if you could carry out starsense auto align and control a focus motor with this and the Skyfi but to be fair I’ve found the set up for starsense via the hand controller then connecting to Skyfi with this app much more accurate. £19.99 in my opinion is more than a fair price for this app and if the devs were to release the functionality to starsense auto from within the app using Skyfi 3 then I’d gladly pay for it as an extra. Well done to the team involved and keep up the good work 👍.
Expensive- Never Up To Date
I bought this app for £39 at the same time as another app called Sky Guide. This app never is up to date and always sends pestering emails to ask for more money, to sell even the simplest data, like the position of the comet NEOWISE! The comet has been visible now for about a month and Sky Safari Pro even now has nothing about this brightest comet of recent years. I regret why I purchased this, Sky Guide is much better and is always up to date with the latest objects.
Astronomically good.
This blew me away, the graphics and animations (including Time Flow) are gorgeous. I watched Halley's Comet fly by Earth in 1986 from the comet's perspective! (Not sure why Halley's Comet flys by Earth in 1079 rather than 1066 though?) And saw a double-sunrise on Mercury due to its highly elliptical orbit (which the app taught me about). It has constellations and everything you could want! Record breathtaking animations with the iPhone's Screen Recording feature. Ever wondered: what's that bright speck in the night sky? With the AR mode, this is the app for you. Feature requests: - Setting to hide day of week - YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601 format) - When an object is centred, show its distance from the POV - Allow POV standing on the surface of a heavenly body (e.g. a planet) - SpaceX launch-tracking!
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App Info
- Category
- Reference
- Publisher
- Simulation Curriculum Corp.
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
- Recent version
- 6.8.5 (3 years ago )
- Released on
- Dec 22, 2017 (6 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, China, South Korea, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Poland, Hong Kong, Norway, New Zealand, Taiwan, Russia, Denmark, South Africa, Czechia, Finland, Hungary, Portugal, Greece, Israel, India, Singapore, Ireland, Thailand, Malaysia, Romania, Turkey, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Peru, Indonesia, Philippines, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Ecuador, Vietnam, Pakistan, Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Nigeria
- Last updated
- 1 month ago