SkySafari 7 Pro 4+
Astronomy Guide To Night Sky
Simulation Curriculum Corp.
Designed for iPad
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- £19.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
SkySafari makes stargazing a simple pleasure. It has the largest database of any astronomy app, includes every solar system object ever discovered, offers unparalleled accuracy, advanced planning and logging tools, flawless telescope control, and provides the very best experience under the stars when you depend on it. Don’t postpone joy. Discover why SkySafari is the #1 recommended astronomy app for serious amateur astronomers since 2009.
Here's what’s new in version 7:
+ Complete support for iOS 16 and iPhone 14. Version 7 brings a new and immersive stargazing experience.
+ Events Finder - go to the new Events section to unlock a powerful search engine that finds astronomical events visible tonight and far into the future. The finder dynamically generates a listing of moon phases, eclipses, planetary moon events, meteor showers and planetary phenomenon such as conjunctions, elongations and oppositions.
+ Notifications - the notifications section has been completely revamped to allow you to customize and manage which events trigger an alert notification on your device.
+ Telescope Support - telescope control is at the heart of SkySafari. Version 7 takes a giant leap forward by supporting ASCOM Alpaca and INDI. These next generation control protocols allow you to effortlessly connect to hundreds of compatible astronomical devices.
Stargazing is often done on your own but looking up at the stars reminds us that we are all part of a larger interconnected universe. SkySafari 7 brings social stargazing to mobile devices with two new features to help you connect with other like minded people.
OneSky - allows you to see what other users are observing, in real time. This feature highlights objects in the sky chart and indicates with a number how many users are observing a particular object.
SkyCast - allows you to guide a friend or group around the night sky through their own copy of SkySafari. After initiating SkyCast, you can generate a link and conveniently share it with other SkySafari users via text message, apps or social media accounts.
+ Sky Tonight - jump to the new Tonight section to see what’s visible in your sky tonight. Expanded information has been designed to help plan your night and includes Moon & Sun info, calendar curations, events and the best positioned deep sky and solar system objects.
+ Improved Observation Tools - SkySafari is the perfect tool to help you plan, record and organize your observations. New workflows make it easier to add, search, filter and sort data.
+ Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets keep your favorite astro information at your fingertips.
The Small Touches:
+ You can now edit the Jupiter GRS Longitude Value in the Settings.
+ Better Moon Age calculation.
+ New grid & reference options allow you to display Solstice and Equinox markers, Orbit + Node markers for all solar system objects, and tick marks and labels for the Ecliptic, Meridian, and Equator reference lines.
+ Previous In-app Purchases are Now Free - this includes the H-R diagram, 3D Galaxy view, and the PGC galaxy and GAIA star catalogs. Enjoy.
+ Many more.
If you haven't used SkySafari 7 Pro before, here's what you can do with it:
+ Hold your device up, and SkySafari 7 Pro will find stars, constellations, planets, and more!
+ Simulate the night sky up to 100,000 years in the past or future! Animate meteor showers, conjunctions, eclipses, and other celestial events.
+ Control your telescope, log and plan your observations.
+ Optionally backup all of your observing data in our secure cloud storage and make it easily accessible to multiple devices as well as from our new web interface, LiveSky.com.
+ Augmented Reality (AR) mode
+ Night Vision.
+ Orbit Mode. Leave the Earth’s surface behind, and fly through our solar system.
+ Galaxy View shows the position of deep sky objects in our Milky Way!
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What’s New
Version 7.3.5
In this update:
+ Timezone fixes.
+ DST fix for Chile region.
Ratings and Reviews
Stunning app
It’s rare to find an app this good.
I do have a small wish-list. When controlling a telescope it would be nice to have the slew controls positioned on the screen to support single handed control rather than either side of the display. Also from the observing list it would be nice to long press an object and invoke go-to.
But minor quibbles aside, magnificent.
Brilliant program if one looks at all the features, but..
There’s no doubt that SkySafari is technically and by its features by far the best astronomy program for the enthusiast but there is the giant elephant in the room: The translations of the object information.
It is anybody’s guess what the developers intended when they added the the translations of the object information, enforced the program to use the device’s language instead of English and did not allow to switch the program language back to English. But for sure they did not think about the consequences at all or just did not care. And it is also certain that they had nobody on their team who spoke anything else but English. The German translations of the object information are so poor that it is impossible to understand a single sentence. Almost every sentence is incomprehensible.
Look guys. If you add translations to your program and enforce users to use them, then you must do a much better job. Telling people in your support forum to switch the device’s language to English is just appalling. Right now all you get is an F for fail and lack of effort.
Good but…
Do not buy. The serious bug mentioned below has still not been fixed and has potential to break your kit.
Got to say in many ways I love this app. I find it intuitive and fairly easy to use but! There is a serious bug, reported by a number of users, that has not been resolved after many months. If, while using the motion controls, your finger moves on the control touch area the button locks and your scope keeps on going. This can be annoying at the least during alignment and potentially can result the scope crashing into the mount. Support say that it will be fixed in the next release but will not indicate when that release will arrive. Until it does stay clear.
App Privacy
The developer, Simulation Curriculum Corp., 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:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
- Simulation Curriculum Corp.
- Size
- 2.5 GB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.1 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.1 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.1 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Simulation Curriculum Corp.
- Price
- £19.99
- In-App Purchases
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- SkySafari Premium Monthly £3.49
- SkySafari Premium £26.49
- PGC Galaxy Database £0.00
- GAIA Star Database £0.00
- Apollo Lunar Missions £0.00
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.