Category | Price | Seller | Device |
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Education | Free | Celestron, LLC. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Planetarium Features
Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.
•Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
•Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
•Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
•Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
•Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
•Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
•Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
•Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.
Computerized Telescope Control
Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.
SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.
I don’t know why this app has such a low rating I love it its simple and easy to use. it doesn’t have all the features that sky safari offers but it’s easy of use more than makes up for that. I have a nexstar 5se and sky portal module and while I have never really gotten the sky align features I love the manual alignment with up to 10 stars
New version doesn’t show DSO objects on the sky map, regardless of settings. (I am a long time SkySafari user: this is a bug, not user error.)
Something seems terribly wrong with this app. No deep space objects visible at all, despite the menu setting saying otherwise. The deep space objects are there, but you have to enter their names individually in the search menu. Seems to be missing half of the basic features in the free version of Sky Safari. I got this hoping to use it to control by CGX mount. But it’s unlikely this app will be any use for that.
In the middle of sky gazing and completely lost control. Frozen up!!!! Fix it!!!
I have used this app with a NexStar 5SE and the Celestron WiFi adapter. I had no problems controlling the scope. The object display left a bit to be desired. Messier objects are not displayed until chosen and then only individually, disappearing when the next object is chosen. Star density is not easily set, if at all. Custom lists do not exist. Get SkySafari 5, it’s free and has more bells and whistles.
Don’t know what the problem is but this app will not Download. Tried other apps of the same size with no problem. Looking for a solution hopefully.
What a great way to run my new telescope. I'm headed to The Texas Star Party and can't wait to use this in dark west texas skies. No more fumbling through cumbersome handcontroller comands, just point to the object and hit goto. off the telescope goes. It has a great vocal feature as well. Also is the dark vision red scree feature, a must to protect your night vision. Well done Celestron!