Out Of This World Planetarium Apps

Celestron’s newest planetarium app is an astronomy suite that redefines how you experience the night sky. Explore the Solar System, 120,000 stars, over 200 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites—including the ISS. SkyPortal includes everything you need to experience the night sky in an exciting new way. When connected to a compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, you can automatically point the telescope to any object in the database and view it with great detail.

Planetarium Features
Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.

•Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
•Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
•Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
•Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
•Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
•Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
•Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
•Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.
Computerized Telescope Control
Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.

SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.

Blast into Space with the Virtual Reality View-Master®!

***A View-Master® Virtual Reality Viewer or other Google Cardboard compatible viewer is required.

*** View-Master®: Space is not optimized for the iPhone 5 or iPhone 5c. You may experience stutters, slowdown and other performance issues on these devices.


View-Master®: Space takes you on trips that are out of this world -- virtually! Explore our solar system, see spacecraft up close or experience the night sky in a whole new way. Learn new facts, trace constellations, and even compare planetary gravity through mini-games!

Launch yourself into stunning 360-degree views that completely surround you. Look up, look down, look around -- everywhere you turn, there is something to see because you are “virtually” standing within the environment!

This experience pack was designed to work best with the View-Master® Virtual Reality Viewer (sold separately) that Works With Google Cardboard. Just download the app, insert your smartphone into the viewer and View-Master® will become your portal to immersive, virtual reality adventures that will transport you around the world and beyond.

Come have a look around. You won’t believe what you can see!

· Enter the world of virtual reality with the View-Master® VR viewer (sold separately) and blast off with the space-themed experience pack.
· View-Master®: Space takes you out of this world to see the solar system, spacecraft and the night sky up close!
· Additional features add to the experience with educational facts and fun interactive opportunities, like finding constellations in the night sky.
· Collect other Experience Packs (sold separately) to visit new places, explore new environments and discover new worlds with a whole new level of realism!
· Use the Preview Reel from the View-Master® Virtual Reality Starter Pack to access even more exciting content.


Compatible Devices:
Requires iOS 8.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone 5 or above. May not be optimized for iPhone 5 or iPhone 5c.

Mattel, Inc. reserves the right to terminate the View-Master®: Space app after October 31, 2017.

For further questions about the View-Master®: Space app please contact customer support at www.service.mattel.com

Stars & Constellations - Glitter of all stars in your hand now.

Ever wondered how many stars and constellations we are surrounded by?
There are countless stars and lots of constellations named by space explorer agencies, and here all are wrapped up in one app, to give everybody the exact information of their location, shape, appearance in iPhones & iPad's

Enjoy the view around earth from earth without telescopes and without searching for a place away from your home in search of glittering stars of sky in night.

All the human searched constellation till now are updated in Stars & Constellations app for iOS

“One of the best VR 3D education app about Solar System!” – 5/5 POP 2Review on Oculus experiences

We will take you fly through the whole solar system. You can land onto the surface of the planets to explore special topographies of different planets. It also introduces the human exploration of the solar system with diversification of space probes.

It includes 5 lessons with voice-over, and the total experience time is about 40 minutes. The first lesson describes the formation of the solar system; the second lesson presents our Earth and the Moon; the third lesson introduces the inner planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars; the fourth lesson introduces outer planets, including Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto; the final lesson describes the structures of solar system's planets, and compares the different size of each planet.

SOLAR is now brought to you by Science Channel and Aireal!

SOLAR is a geospatial augmented reality experience created on the Aireal platform that allow's you to explore our solar system within your existing environment.

SOLAR leverages Aireal’s proprietary method of using geospatial coordinates to anchor digital content at a nearby location, rather than using a marker or computer vision. This feature gives you the ability to walk through and around the entire solar system as if it was part of your real environment. As you’re navigating through our planetary system, feel free to tap on a planet to receive detailed information.

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About Aireal

Aireal is an augmented reality platform that enables people to design, discover and experience (2D, 3D, Video and Interactive) content that is super-imposed over their real world environment and is visble through the use of mobile and wearable technology. Unlike the current status quo of augmented reality that requires marker-based recognition, Aireal's patented technology allows for digital content to be placed within volumetric blocks that are anchored to real world longitude, latitude and altitude coordinates that enables a markerless augmented experience.

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About Science Channel

Science Channel is home for the thought provocateur, the individual who is unafraid to ask the killer questions of "how" and "why not." We are a playground for those with audacious intellects and features content willing to go beyond imagination to explore the unknown. Guided by curiosity, we look for innovation in mysterious new worlds as well as in our own backyard.

'easyLearn Solar System' is a simple & interactive way for kids to learn about the Solar System, Space and Astronomy. The facts are presented in a very simple manner and with lots of pictures, kids can have fun and learn at the same time.
It covers all the basic facts that elementary school kids need to learn, about the Sun and other important Stars, all 8 Planets including Earth, important moons of all planets including Earth's Moon, Dwarf Planets, Asteroid Belt, Comets, Constellations, Meteors, Universe, Galaxies, Nebula, Black Hole and other space objects, Astronauts, Space Shuttle and many other spacecraft.

There are 3 modes to begin with.
* Learn Mode - Lots of simple learning pages with pictures and facts about each space object.

* Practice Mode - After learning your facts, you can practice your skills in this mode by answering questions or clues. There are 7 types of activities. Each one is in the form of a quiz, but it gives you many chances until you get your answer right.
1. Naming: Tap the correct name of the object shown in the picture, using the clue.
2. Questions: Tap the correct picture to answer the question.
3. Matching: Tap the correct picture on the right to match the picture shown on the left, using the clue.
4. Puzzles: Join the pieces of the puzzle to see the picture and its name.
5. Sorting: Sort the pictures into two groups using the clue.
6. Trivia: Tap the correct answer to the question.
7. Assorted: This combines all the 6 types above in a random fashion.

* Quiz Mode - After practicing your answers, you can take the actual Quiz in this mode. There are 5 types of activities similar to the ones in Practice mode. Each one is in the form of a quiz. You can select your answers for all questions/clues one by one and at the end of the Quiz, it gives you a summary of how you scored and lets you compare all your answers to the correct answers one by one.
1. Naming: Tap the correct name of the object shown in the picture, using the clue.
2. Questions: Tap the correct picture to answer the question.
3. Matching: Tap the correct picture on the right to match the picture shown on the left, using the clue.
4. Trivia: Tap the correct answer to the question.
5. Assorted: This combines all the 4 types above in a random fashion.