http://www.androidtapp.com/google-sky-map/ Android App Reviews, Android Apps, News, App Recommendations & Interviews Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:58:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.androidtapp.com/google-sky-map/comment-page-1/#comment-206158 jartwo Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:23:40 +0000 http://www.androidtapp.com/?p=5997#comment-206158 Knockout app for anyone with an interest (even a passing interest) in backyard astronomy. Replaces reams of star charts, not to mention un-tolled hours of prep time required for getting familiar with the night sky. Accuracy is more than adequate enough to find things in any virtually size telescope. Far cheaper, faster, and dang near as accurate as the best "go-to" option for today's scopes. Sky Map solves it: how to both visually locate a sky object and aquire it within an optical field of view as simply and as quickly and as accurately as possible - or: highly portable, cheap and accurate astronomy on the fly. As such, before this app, it simply didn't exist. A potential revolution for those already involved in amateur astronomy, a not inconsiderable revelation for anyone thinking of becoming so. Sky occasionally gets confused right after launch and either lags greatly or locks up. No worries. Just shaking firmly enough back and forth for 2-3 seconds never fails to restore all immediately - you're just resetting the compass, the GPS info is never at issue. Features: I can use it from any point on the globe (that has Sprint service, anyway), at any time, day or night, regardless of weather, indoors or out and I can easily track at a glance anything and everything below the horizon all at once to see what has already set and what will soon be rising. Time travel mode. Red-only night mode. Enter an object and it guides you straight to it. Individually optionally defeatable displays for constellations, Messier objects, polar coordinates, planets, horizon. You wait, this ability in the hands of everyone's going to change how some things are done. Knockout app for anyone with an interest (even a passing interest) in backyard astronomy. Replaces reams of star charts, not to mention un-tolled hours of prep time required for getting familiar with the night sky. Accuracy is more than adequate enough to find things in any virtually size telescope. Far cheaper, faster, and dang near as accurate as the best “go-to” option for today’s scopes. Sky Map solves it: how to both visually locate a sky object and aquire it within an optical field of view as simply and as quickly and as accurately as possible – or: highly portable, cheap and accurate astronomy on the fly. As such, before this app, it simply didn’t exist. A potential revolution for those already involved in amateur astronomy, a not inconsiderable revelation for anyone thinking of becoming so. Sky occasionally gets confused right after launch and either lags greatly or locks up. No worries. Just shaking firmly enough back and forth for 2-3 seconds never fails to restore all immediately – you’re just resetting the compass, the GPS info is never at issue. Features: I can use it from any point on the globe (that has Sprint service, anyway), at any time, day or night, regardless of weather, indoors or out and I can easily track at a glance anything and everything below the horizon all at once to see what has already set and what will soon be rising. Time travel mode. Red-only night mode. Enter an object and it guides you straight to it. Individually optionally defeatable displays for constellations, Messier objects, polar coordinates, planets, horizon. You wait, this ability in the hands of everyone’s going to change how some things are done.

]]> http://www.androidtapp.com/google-sky-map/comment-page-1/#comment-11898 Droid App Showcase » Google Sky Map Fri, 28 May 2010 04:47:29 +0000 http://www.androidtapp.com/?p=5997#comment-11898 [...] via androidtapp [...] [...] via androidtapp [...]

]]> http://www.androidtapp.com/google-sky-map/comment-page-1/#comment-4081 Jimi Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:04:20 +0000 http://www.androidtapp.com/?p=5997#comment-4081 Awesome app I only installed today and love the ease of use. AWESOME!!! Awesome app I only installed today and love the ease of use. AWESOME!!!

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