✻ Double the stars! All stars upto 9.5 magnitude are now included!
✻ New Quick Setting for stars: "Relative size". Use this to set how large stars appear relative to other stars of a different magnitude.
Stability improvements:
* Fix for opening links in the browser on Android 11 devices
* Fix world map not updating when entering location
* Fix some rare crashes
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* Object details dialog now shows the Altitude Plot for that object
* More accurate Precession calculations
* Fix Wikipedia Link
* Many tweaks and bug fixes
☍ The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is on 21st December 18:20 UTC. Use the time-machine to find the best time to watch at your location.
• Clicking an object on the home screen now shows the details of the object
• Object detail button is also available on the Map screen
• The object detail screen allows you to quickly search Wikipedia too
• Reduced crowding of labels by dynamically showing and hiding them
• Updated translations. New language: Telugu
• Fixed rare crashes in Map screen
* Alignments are now persistent for 18 hours. No more fear of accidentally losing alignments when app is restarted.
* Indicator for Indirect-mode (shows when alignments are being used)
* Improved translations
* List of popular cities for quickly adding a new location
* Fine tuned default map settings
* Fix some rare crashes
* New Color Theme: Green
* Ability to support development via In-App-Purchase.
* Updated comet data
* Bug fix in rendering of labels at high zoom
* Improvements to landscape layout
Better labels on map screen and other usability improvements!
* Labels can now be scaled through map settings
* Map screen now allows wider views (larger FOV)
* Home screen now has a search button
* NGC Catalog was expanded to include 200+ popular objects.
* Many bug fixes and tweaks. See Guide for detailed changelog.
7.3.1 and 7.3.2 are bug fix releases
Better labels on map screen and other usability improvements!
* Labels can now be scaled through map settings
* Map screen now allows wider views (larger FOV)
* Home screen now has a search button
* NGC Catalog was expanded to include 200+ popular objects.
Many bug fixes and tweaks. See Guide for detailed changelog.
Support for Meteor Showers including Perseids!
Also tweaked some default settings, based on user feedback.
* Stability improvements and bug fixes
* Search panel now has an explicit close button
* Added Comet Neowise (C/2020 F3) to the catalogs! Henceforth, very bright comets will be included in the free version.
* Fixed some rare bugs when closing the map screen
Thanks for all the feedback!
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In 7.1 series:
* A new home screen with "what's up in the sky now" list and easy access to settings.
* Ground plane in the map screen to clearly demarcate objects below and above the horizon. Opacity can be changed through "Quick settings".
# Highlights
* Simplify `Add Location` screen and use Network provided location apart from GPS location, for a faster location fix.
* Smoother Graphics using higher quality anti-aliasing, when available
* Remove battery indicator
* Dropped support for Android 5 and below
# Fixes
* Set NavBar color to dark red. Hopefully fixes white background for NavBar in Android 10 Dark mode.
* Fixed bugs in `Quick Settings`. Some settings were not being saved correctly.
* Many under-the-hood fixes
* Fixed display of calibration messages when connecting to remote devices
* Note: This will probably be the last SkEye release to support older Android versions (Android 5 and earlier).
6.14e (19 Jan 2019)
* fix rare crash in search screen on slow devices
6.14d (18 Jan 2019)
* fix crash on devices without GPS provider
* Ability to set label line opacity via quick settings (can be found under General category)
* Fix crashes while exiting the app, on some devices.
* Change target SDK version to comply with Play store rules
Improvements to Location Settings:
* Show a world map indicating the manually entered location
* Lesser annoyance in Location screen interaction
Support for new devices with high aspect ratios.
Fixed rare exception when initialising graphics.
6.11 (8 March 2017)* M1 is now called crab nebula, instead of Taurus A* Ability to search stars by their designation in English (sigma instead of σ)* Completed list of named stars* Increased number of named stars to 2400, so that southern pole star (sigma octanis) is included* Smoother display when connected to Wiced Sense devices, on some newer Android phones
SkEye is a planetarium that can also be used as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes.
Get familiar with the sky by identifying stars, planets, and constellations. For the dedicated sky-gazers there are meteor showers, bright comets and deep sky objects from the Messier and NGC catalogs.
If you have a telescope, just strap the phone onto the OTA to get a PUSHTO guide!
‣ Features
• Time machine : Jump to any date in past or future
• Real time Alt-Azimuth and Equatorial coordinates
• Messier objects
• mini-NGC catalog (subset of ~180 bright objects)
• Solar system objects including all 8 planets and the 4 Galilean moons
• Night Mode
• Search, with a guiding arrow
• Alt-Azimuth, Equatorial grid
‣ Queries?
Send an email to hi.skeye@gmail.com.
‣ Tips:
• For better accuracy, calibrate the magnetic sensors by waving the phone in a figure-8 motion of your hands.
• For advanced use read: https://lavadip.com/skeye/documentation.html
• If you would like to help with translations: https://crowdin.com/project/skeye
‣ App Permissions
• Location: to determine accurate position of celestial objects
• Bluetooth: to support remote sensors