Tim DeBenedictis with Southern Stars has announced that Orbitrack, its iOS app for tracking satellites, is now updated to version 2.1. Orbitrack is a thorough rewrite of Southern Stars’ 2013 Satellite Safari app offering a brand-new, augmented-and-virtual-reality satellite tracker and spaceflight simulator. Orbitrack will tell you when spacecraft pass overhead, […]
The Cosmic Watch app for iOS and Android marries the functions of a world clock and an astronomical clock into a beautifully-rendered, uniquely-instructive interface. Celestial Dynamics, the apps developer, refined the functionality of the app in Version 2.0 and has produced a short video that highlights the recent improvements. The […]
SkySafari LiveSky owner and developer, Simulation Curriculum, calls the app “Professional Telescope Astronomy Software,” and it is surely that. But most who don’t search for it by name will find it in Google’s Play Store or Apple’s App Store with a search for “planetarium app,” and it’s that, too – […]
The Observer Pro app is an iOS app designed specifically for advanced amateur astronomy planning for those using iPhones, iPads iPod Touch. No guessing when that galaxy will emerge from behind that dastardly tree; no estimating how many hours you’ll be able to image an object. It provides easy answers […]
The Good To Stargaze app is an iOS and Android app that helps you plan your observing sessions and find dark sky locations. The Good To Stargaze app provides detailed hour-by-hour forecasts of atmospheric conditions for any location on the planet, including cloud cover, visibility, seeing, transparency, and light pollution, […]
Simulation Curriculum announced Version 6 of SkySafari Pro for iOS and iPhone X. Here’s what’s new: Clouds and Astronomy Two words that rarely go together. Rewritten from the ground up, SkySafari 6 Pro will (optionally) back up all of your observing data to SkySafari’s secure cloud storage and make it […]
The Cosmic Watch app for iOS and Android are two apps in one: a world clock and an astronomical clock. The celestial watch is based on a beautifully designed three-dimensional model of the solar system as experienced from earth. It shows time as what it really is – our position […]
Joshua Bury’s latest version of his iOS astronomy observation planning app, Observer Pro 2.1, is available in the Apple App Store. New updates to the app include: – The Featured list is now much more useful: your location, local horizon, and the current lunar phase are now used to provide […]
For iOS, the Solar Eclipse Timer app is a complete guide to solar eclipses that is simple to use. Created by Gordon Telepun for first-time eclipse observers as well as veteran eclipse chasers, it is released well in time to prepare everyone for the August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, […]