SkySafari 7 Pro 4+
Astronomy Guide To Night Sky
Simulation Curriculum Corp.
Designed for iPad
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- € 44,99
- 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 comet, asteroid, satellite & 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 18 and iPhone 16. 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, INDI & StarSense Explorer. These next generation control protocols allow you to effortlessly connect to hundreds of compatible astronomical devices.
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 5MM 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 7.5.1
- Fixes for Globular Cluster magnitudes.
- Fixes for Planetary Nebulae names.
- Fix for Comet tail rendering.
- Several other stability fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Not the telescope controle functionality of v6
I bought v7, assuming it would give me all of the functionality of v6, but in a newer app. Telescope control settings tab was empty. Requested a refund at Apple, if the request is honoured, I will purchase v6 anyway.
This is not a MacOS app
The developers market this as a MacOS app. They even offer 'buy one OS, get the other free'. But this is not a MacOS app. It's just the iPad app that happens to work on Apple Silicon. It generally works, but the user experience is not great with trackpad or mouse. It is a pity that Simulation Curriculum has dropped true support for MacOS.
One of the best astrononomy programs available.
Hi, Thanks for the upgrade. It looks beautiful!
Many items from the previous version work faster and more “to the feel” now and above all much easier. It is a great help with telescope control; very precise and perfect syncing makes searching very easy. Also the hand control movements are just perfect!
With a laptop I always plate solve, but with e.g. an iPad, searching and syncing work nearly as fast.
The way stars are shown - size vs magnitude - resembles pretty much a camera view at the telescope as well as visual with large fields.
All the things mentioned above are - for me - the more important as observing time often goes together with fatigue.
Thanks again!
Cheers, Esdert.
Developer Response ,
Hi, thank you so much for your review and feedback. The FOV orientation is definitely a bug - we're working on a fix for 7.0.2 but might actually make this a little better with additional orientation options under Scope Display. I noticed that I can't select or copy the information in the tech details view of Object Info in SS6 or SS7 - is that what you mean? I'll make a note to see if we can make this info selectable - maybe something changed in iOS15. Please reach out to us directly here: https://support.simulationcurriculum.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/201239587-SkySafari-7-User-Support - hard to communicate back and forth in Apple review system :) Also consider joining our beta program, gives you a say in development. Regards.
App Privacy
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Data Not Linked to You
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- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
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Simulation Curriculum Corp. has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- Address
- 11900 Wayzata Blvd. Suite 126 Minnetonka Minnesota 55305 United States
- Phone Number
- +1 6128057041
- mgoodman@simcur.com
- 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
- © 2024 Simulation Curriculum Corp.
- Price
- € 44,99
- In-App Purchases
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- SkySafari Premium € 31,99
- PGC Galaxy Database € 0,00
- GAIA Star Database € 0,00
- Apollo Lunar Missions € 0,00
- SkySafari Premium Monthly € 4,49
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.