SkEye | Astronomy

SkEye is a planetarium that can also be used as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes. Get familiar with the sky by identifying stars, planets, and constellations. For the dedicated sky-gazers there are meteor showers, bright comets and deep sky objects from the Messier and NGC catalogs. If you have a telescope, just strap the phone onto the OTA to get a PUSHTO guide! ‣ Features  • Time machine : Jump to any date in past or future  • Real time Alt-Azimuth and Equatorial coordinates  • Messier objects  • mini-NGC catalog (subset of ~180 bright objects)  • Solar system objects including all 8 planets and the 4 Galilean moons  • Meteor showers, including Perseids, Geminids, Leonids  • Night Mode  • Search, with a guiding arrow  • Alt-Azimuth, Equatorial grid  • Aligned mode, for PUSHTO guidance ‣ Queries? Send an email to hi.skeye@gmail.com. ‣ Tips:  • For better accuracy, calibrate the magnetic sensors by waving the phone in a figure-8 motion of your hands.  • For advanced use read: https://lavadip.com/skeye/docs.html  • If you would like to help with translations: https://crowdin.com/project/skeye ‣ App Permissions  • Location: to determine accurate position of celestial objects  • Bluetooth: to support remote sensors