Starmap

Name: Starmap
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Fredd

The whole sky in your pocket.

Only for iPhone

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

1 Rating
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Fredd
Language

EN
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Size

115
MB

iPhone

Star map, northern lights forecast and night sky guide. Free, offline, no ads. Point your phone at the sky and see what's there — stars, planets, constellations, the northern lights. Starmap works completely offline, anywhere, with no signal. Built by a professional astronomer and given freely. No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No tracking of any kind. Everything is unlocked from the first launch. AURORA AND NORTHERN LIGHTS Live aurora forecasts from NOAA, with the Kp index, the three-day outlook and the auroral oval for both hemispheres. Know whether tonight is worth staying up for. OUT WITH THE FAMILY Hold the phone up and it names whatever you're looking at. An arrow guides you to any planet, star or constellation. Every catalogue is stored on the device, so it works in the mountains, at sea, or anywhere without a signal. THE SUN AND THE MOON Sunspots, flares and X-ray flux, live from NOAA. 9,900 named lunar features with their origins and etymologies. Rise, transit and set times for everything, which you can send to your calendar. FOR SERIOUS OBSERVERS 2.5 million stars stored offline, down to magnitude 15. The full Messier, NGC, IC and Caldwell catalogues, plus Sharpless, van den Bergh, Lynds, Barnard and Abell clusters. Live comets, asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects from the Minor Planet Center. Deep-sky records enriched on demand from SIMBAD, searchable by any catalogue identifier. AT THE EYEPIECE Define your telescope, eyepieces and camera, and see the true field of view you'll actually get, with Telrad rings and reticles. A full red night-vision mode for use in the dark. The whole sky in your pocket — free, because that is what it should be.

Ratings & Reviews

5.0

out of 5

1 Ratings

A Trusted Stargazing App
10/22/2015
Tutæ
I have been using this app for years, and it has only been getting better. Keep up the good work!
A Trusted Stargazing App
10/22/2015
Tutæ

I have been using this app for years, and it has only been getting better. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic App. The sky in your hand
05/15/2009
Varpiter
Update - I don't care what you've read here before. This app is well worth the money. If you are an astronomer then you will enjoy this. I've used it several times in the city and camping. Never a crash never hit any problems. And now the update I just got made even better. Ive tested this with Starry Sky and other software and it has been accurate. Even compared it to the Griffith Observatory sky info and it has proven accurate there. This app is great!! I read a lot of the reviews that were entered for this app and at first I was skeptical but I gambled the $12 it costs and let me tell you I am very surprised and delighted at the app's operation. It's pleasing to look at as it is artistically beautiful and the information it has in it is excellent. As for the bad reviewers out there, you have to go further than you did. I found nothing missing in this app. What people may not realize is that the app gives you choices of visible objects or all objects also it uses common and international names for constellations so if you want Canis Major you will find it as Big Dog (name style is selectable). The app is very well done and very useful. I'm an ametuer astronomer and I found this to be well worth the price. I especially like the meteor shower location finder. My iPod Touch with Starmap will be with me on all future hiking and camping trips as well as explorations I do in my backyard in the city. My laptop was getting a bit cumbersome.
Fantastic App. The sky in your hand
05/15/2009
Varpiter

Update - I don't care what you've read here before. This app is well worth the money. If you are an astronomer then you will enjoy this. I've used it several times in the city and camping. Never a crash never hit any problems. And now the update I just got made even better. Ive tested this with Starry Sky and other software and it has been accurate. Even compared it to the Griffith Observatory sky info and it has proven accurate there. This app is great!! I read a lot of the reviews that were entered for this app and at first I was skeptical but I gambled the $12 it costs and let me tell you I am very surprised and delighted at the app's operation. It's pleasing to look at as it is artistically beautiful and the information it has in it is excellent. As for the bad reviewers out there, you have to go further than you did. I found nothing missing in this app. What people may not realize is that the app gives you choices of visible objects or all objects also it uses common and international names for constellations so if you want Canis Major you will find it as Big Dog (name style is selectable). The app is very well done and very useful. I'm an ametuer astronomer and I found this to be well worth the price. I especially like the meteor shower location finder. My iPod Touch with Starmap will be with me on all future hiking and camping trips as well as explorations I do in my backyard in the city. My laptop was getting a bit cumbersome.
Multiple star charts & desktop computer in your pocket
07/11/2008
hummingcrow
I’ve got star charts for the Northern and Southern hemispheres, but they are peanuts to Starmap. One, they don’t fit in my pocket. Two, they’ve got to be swiveled around in multiple places to the correct time, and if you drop one, you’ve got to do it all over again in the dark. Three, they don’t illuminate, so you also have to carry a flashlight. I’ve also got a computer application that does what Starmap does, but again, it’s a bit difficult to fit my Windows XP tower (no Mac version!), monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power source in my pocket.Starmap is many charts in one, since you can orient it to just about any location on the planet. It comes with its own adjustable-brightness flashlight, a “Lamp” button, which you can set to illuminate in red to preserve your night vision. Its interface is drop dead easy to use and includes the ability to turn planets, deep field objects, and constellation outlines on and off. Touchscreen panning and zooming around the sky is a bit slow, but it’s easy and fast to use the cardinal directions buttons instead. You can also search its catalogue to find objects of interest and figure out whether they’re visible and where to look for them in the night sky. I haven’t begun to list all the cool features of Starmap. It’s the only app I’ve paid for, and it’s well worth every penny.
Multiple star charts & desktop computer in your pocket
07/11/2008
hummingcrow

I’ve got star charts for the Northern and Southern hemispheres, but they are peanuts to Starmap. One, they don’t fit in my pocket. Two, they’ve got to be swiveled around in multiple places to the correct time, and if you drop one, you’ve got to do it all over again in the dark. Three, they don’t illuminate, so you also have to carry a flashlight. I’ve also got a computer application that does what Starmap does, but again, it’s a bit difficult to fit my Windows XP tower (no Mac version!), monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power source in my pocket.Starmap is many charts in one, since you can orient it to just about any location on the planet. It comes with its own adjustable-brightness flashlight, a “Lamp” button, which you can set to illuminate in red to preserve your night vision. Its interface is drop dead easy to use and includes the ability to turn planets, deep field objects, and constellation outlines on and off. Touchscreen panning and zooming around the sky is a bit slow, but it’s easy and fast to use the cardinal directions buttons instead. You can also search its catalogue to find objects of interest and figure out whether they’re visible and where to look for them in the night sky. I haven’t begun to list all the cool features of Starmap. It’s the only app I’ve paid for, and it’s well worth every penny.
Well done, especially after September 21 Update
09/22/2008
DocBob
I have for years used Astromist on the Palm and was hoping for a replacement after switch to iPhone and this is it. As others have noted, there was a delay / slow animation with the original application but the August 29 update has markedly improved performance as well as adding additional cities to location list and adding a night vision option (check under "Lamp" rather than "Brightness" as you might expect - I suspect an update will put a toggle button in the "Brightness" tab to switch to red / night vision mode). Anyway, very pleased with the update. Keep up the good work - looking forward to whatever future updates might hold.UPDATE 9-21:Wow. I had to update my review after today's update. Makes me wish I had given it 4 stars earlier so I could bump it up to 5 now. The accelerated graphics are terrific! My 3 year old son and I just spent a fun 20 minutes exploring the sky on the iPhone, which with the prior relatively slow graphics would not have held his attention. Well Done!!
Well done, especially after September 21 Update
09/22/2008
DocBob

I have for years used Astromist on the Palm and was hoping for a replacement after switch to iPhone and this is it. As others have noted, there was a delay / slow animation with the original application but the August 29 update has markedly improved performance as well as adding additional cities to location list and adding a night vision option (check under "Lamp" rather than "Brightness" as you might expect - I suspect an update will put a toggle button in the "Brightness" tab to switch to red / night vision mode). Anyway, very pleased with the update. Keep up the good work - looking forward to whatever future updates might hold.UPDATE 9-21:Wow. I had to update my review after today's update. Makes me wish I had given it 4 stars earlier so I could bump it up to 5 now. The accelerated graphics are terrific! My 3 year old son and I just spent a fun 20 minutes exploring the sky on the iPhone, which with the prior relatively slow graphics would not have held his attention. Well Done!!

What's new - Share the map and tell your friends where to see planets, constellations and more in the night sky. - Discover constellations better with imaginative artwork and star-to-star tracing. - Added new asterisms. - Added a new animation showing the night sky throughout the year. - Added a quick menu (long press) for fast access to some settings. Fixes - The constellation visibility switch was missing. - Changing your location now updates the map even when not in real time.

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Seller: Fruduric Descamps
Size: 115 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.6 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Languages: English and 12 more

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Age Rating: 4+

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