Celestron’s newest planetarium app is an astronomy suite that redefines how you experience the night sky. Explore the Solar System, 120,000 stars, over 200 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites—including the ISS. SkyPortal includes everything you need to experience the night sky in an exciting new way. When connected to a compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, you can automatically point the telescope to any object in the database and view it with great detail.
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 want to like this app and when it works it is great but too flakey connecting with my Evolution scope.. says can see it but cannot connect.Uninstalled and reinstalled and discovered that I had missed a couple of updates.. why does the app not update itself or say it needs updating Also no way of updating except uninstall and install the new version.
No problems
seuvr
I’ve read various reports about how this app doesn’t work or the wifi is flaky , but to be honest I think most of the issues are user related. If you disable your wifi connections and allow the Celestron wifi to connect you will have no problems, it’s only because your home wifi puts out a stronger signal that sky portal disconnects. There are plenty of videos on utube , to name one Lucas Campos, this is the one I followed and I have 98% success rate. Even the most expensive apps can have issues, sit down , work through calmly and slowly and you will get there.
Perfectly neat
Sam947279
Everything in this app is so tidy and it doesn’t show too many stars from further distances like with other apps it shows stars you can even see from earth and just makes it overcomplicated when looking for a certain star most certainly deserves a 5 star rating
No longer working on iPhone 6
MrGrafOD
I’ve used this app every since purchasing our Celestron scope, it’s been great. But it no longer works on my iPhone 6 running iOS 12.4.9. Please fix this ☹️.
Support for StarSense AutoAlign V2
Other bug fixes and improvements
Version 4.0.2
The developer, Celestron, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Usage Data
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Information
Provider
Celestron, LLC.
Size
743.1 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
