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

$4.99

PGC Extension Database

$5.99

GAIA Extension Database

$9.99

Interactive H-R Diagram

$2.99

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User Rating

4.78 out of 5

6,353 ratings in United States

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Reviews

SS6 Pro is better than SS7

SS6 has a more intuitive design and more beautiful presentation than the newer version. My advice is to get SS6 Pro before it is no longer available.

I went back to SF6 Pro.

SF7 Pro has a real problem with runaway slews in the controls. I gave up trying to work with it and went back to 6.

Chart NOT reflecting Settings Changes.

I make changes to the settings and most of those changes are not reflected in the chart.

I come back to this app often 😍

I love this app!!! My fav thing about it is the level of customization that I can apply, depending on how I'm using it on a given night (or day). One caveat though. Once in awhile information about an object may seem a little off. So confirm with multiple sources. That doesn't bother me because I love researching and picture surfing anyway. A recent example is the object known as SagDEG. My version of SkySafari Pro has it as 46,000 light years from Earth. Elsewhere, it is thought to be 70,000 light years from Earth (which seems more likely to me for a couple of reasons). But get the app, enjoy it, and dig deep into the info. Let SkySafari be your guide, and the vast night sky will astonish you over and over again.

Sky Safari 6 pro

Works with my scope . On comparing with sky safari 7 pro. Sky safari 7 pro has tick marks on the eq coordinates will you be adding this function on sky safari 6 pro too ?

Bummed

You are saying to upgrade to 7 however I use sky wire to control my scope and you have deleted this and just do skyfi. Makes any updates unavailable to me😢

My Go-to Astrophotography Planning tool…

Convenient, well organized and versatile application for the novice and advanced…

Annoying, nagging pop-ups in paid app

This app works well, BUT after purchase it eventually starts having pop-ups every time the app is launched. Stellarium works as well, doesn’t have annoying ads and is much cheaper.

Great app

Love the tech easy for me to control equipment

ANNOYED. Again.

“ At this time there is not a way to move your custom locations from SkySafari 5 to SkySafari 6. You will have to manually recreate them in SkySafari 6. IMPORTANT: After your observing list and settings files are imported into SkySafari 6, they are deleted from the Documents directory because they are now stored in the database. If you add the files to the Documents directory a second time you will get duplicate imports. Duplicates file entries will also result if you add the files to another device that is also synced via the same LiveSky.com account. You need only add the files from SkySafari 5 to SkySafari 6 ONCE, using any one device. The files will then be synced to all your iOS devices using the same LiveSky.com account.”. I am a software project manager. You would have to be into I.T. and development to understand that this and ability is absolutely ridiculous. Whoever is telling these people that this cannot be done through programming and development is lying like a RUG. Things like this are extremely easy to do and we do it every day. If I put out with a new release that one released was not able to update from the last user generated files, I would be fired. Also I have been unable to get any questions answered at all about the app via instructions or forum. Like many other users, I have found that most developers documentation to be absolutely embarrassing. This app does not cease to disappoint. I have a six year old that document this code better. I cannot find out from anyone in the company or that has used the app to answer this question, when I purchase the extra databases, do they update and are transferred to the next Safari release, you know the Safari releases don’t you? Those releases that we have to pay through the nose for every year! This happened to buy a new release every year or so is crazy. It’s no different from the craziness of having to get an Apple phone every couple years. What’s the what is it with you people that you always have to have your hands constantly in our pockets?

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