Our Galaxy 4+
A Three-Dimensional Atlas
Otherwise
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- Free
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Description
Our Galaxy is a unique app for both amateur astronomers and astronomy educators. It helps you visualize the 3-dimensional locations of deep sky objects in and around our galaxy, and provides you with an understanding of their physical properties. It addition, it illustrates the structural components of the Galaxy, including the thin disk, thick disk, galactic bulge and stellar halo.
The 3-D interface allows you to see where the cluster or nebula of interest is located relative to the center and plane of the Galaxy. By panning around, or moving closer to or farther away from the object, you derive a sense of where the object really is in 3-dimensional space.
The app enhances the observing experience by helping the user arrive at an intuitive sense of physical location, size, luminosity, and distance for the chosen object. It also serves as a great tool for education and outreach with its unusual visual perspective on the location of deep sky objects and their relationship to the center and plane of our galaxy.
See more videos and screenshots at the otherwise.com website.
Our Galaxy is also available of macOS.
What’s New
Version 2.1.0
• Improvements to the display of Search results.
• Search panel remembers previous search parameters. Use Reset to clear them.
• Added Proxima Centauri to database. Even though it's fainter than the 6th mag cutoff, it is special as the closest star other than the Sun.
• Fixed bug where the built-in view for the M81 Group was showing the Centaurus group by mistake.
• Miscellaneous small tweaks to database.
• Miscellaneous small UI tweaks.
Ratings and Reviews
Wow
This app is worth getting an ipad for if you are interested in space
Unbelievably Cool!!!
Fantastic App. Amazing fun zooming around the galaxy and beyond. Really great to get some sense of the scale of the cosmos!
Had to turn phone off to get out of app iP12mini
As per title.
Developer Response ,
Sorry you are having an issue. Can you clarify what you mean by getting out off the app. I’m assuming you don’t have a home button. If you are trying to leave by swiping up from the bottom, the first swipe should show a small up arrow control at the bottom. A second swipe should bring up the dock.
This is a common gesture used by Apple when the app uses the full screen and doesn’t show the iOS title bar.
Feel free to contact us if you still have problems.
App Privacy
The developer, Otherwise, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Otherwise
- Size
- 60.4 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021, Otherwise. All Rights Reserved.
- Price
- Free