Learn About The Night Sky With These Apps

Sky Above is a star gazing app that allows you to view where in the sky stars, constellations, planets and satellites are above you in the sky.

Now updated for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, also with tracking for the Hubble Space Telescope!

Best of all, you can see the real sky in the app too using your device's camera!

Just hold your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch up to the sky and all will be revealed to you.

Sky Above uses your location provided by GPS and compass built into your device to work out where you are and what to show you.

Next time you see that bright dot next to the moon in the sky and wonder if it's Jupiter, why not open up Sky Above and find out!

- 3D Solar System explorer
- Track over 150 satellite locations
- Find out where the International Space Station or the Hubble Space Telescope is
- Track the locations of all 8 planets and also dwarf planet, Pluto
- View the constellations
- Accurate phases of the moon
- Search for any of the named stars, constellations or planets and view more information

Redshift brings the night sky to your screen. Explore alien planets, enhance your knowledge with detailed information on astronomy and space travel - and never miss an important celestial event.

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What users say:
"Incredible! So life like! Best app out there” Zeexh
"Awesome […] Helped me a lot with my astronomy class in College” Jeffreyr09
“Best app you can get for money, and you can bet that.” Tom 95978
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Major features:
• Discover celestial objects: The app tells you which stars, constellations and planets are currently visible in the night sky from your location; furthermore, it shows you the way to any celestial body you want to study.
• 3D flights: Travel to any location within the Solar System; orbit the planets and their moons, and land on their surfaces.
• Observation planner for Sun, Moon and bright planets
• Comprehensive database: Browse more than 100,000 stars, 70,000 spectacular deep sky objects, 500 asteroids, 16 comets and 26 moons as well as all planets and dwarf planets.

• 3D graphics: Watch detailed representations of the planets, moons, asteroids and comets as well as bright and planetary nebulae, star clusters and many other deep sky objects.

• Ten interactive Guided Tours explain the major facts of astronomy and various fascinating events in the sky.

• Spacecrafts: Observe the satellites surrounding the Earth

• Night vision mode and many additional panoramas and background sounds

Expand your Redshift app via In-App Purchase – enjoy using the telescope control and “Sky Diary”, calculate the visibility conditions for your own list of celestial objects and spacecraft.


Further versions: Redshift Compact for beginners, Redshift Pro with many additional features, and telescope control.
Overview of all Redshift versions: www.redshift-live.de/features

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Questions or suggestions for improvements:
Mail to ios@usm.de
We are looking forward to your feedback!

For more information on news and updates: www.redshift-live.com
or visit us on www.facebook.com/redshiftplanetariumsoftware

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Redshift Pro is the most advanced version of the leading astronomy app Redshift, especially for professional skywatching!

Control your telescope with Redshift Pro and plan your observations with the individually configurable observation planner. With the help of the Sky Diary you will not miss any celestial event.

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What Redshift – Astronomy users say:
“Fantastic! This is far and away the best astronomy app available. Highly customizable and a great educational tool. I’ve used this app in the field many times with perfect results.” Hefe42
“Absolutely love it! Redshift is as important on telescoping nights as is my telescope! Very informative.” Dudettsky
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Premium features:
- Telescope Control for Meade and Celestron telescopes (except Celestron NexStar Evolution series)
- Planetarium with more than 2.5 million stars, 70,000 spectacular deep sky objects, 4,000 asteroids, 800 comets and 26 moons as well as all planets and dwarf planets
- Online access to USNO-B1.0-Catalogue ( > one billion stars) and databases of spacecraft
- Extended observation planner for Sun, Moon, Planets, Satellites and many other celestial objects as well as weather info
- Sky Diary for solar and lunar eclipses, conjunctions, and meteor showers
- 3D models of the Milky Way, of planets, moons, asteroids and comets, bright and planetary nebulae, star clusters and many other deep sky objects
- Eclipse maps and supernova simulations
- Planetary and lunar gazetteers
- 5 basic coordinate systems
- Numerical integration of asteroid and comet movement
- Time interval: on board 1000 - 2500 AD; download 3000 BC – 3000 AD
- 25 guided tours and astronomical dictionary

Further versions: Redshift Compact for beginners, Redshift for advanced users.
Overview of all Redshift versions: www.redshift-live.com/features

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Questions or suggestions for improvements:
Mail to ios@usm.de
We are looking forward to your feedback!

For more information on news and updates: www.redshift-live.com or visit us on www.facebook.com/redshiftplanetariumsoftware

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Stellarium Mobile is a planetarium app that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars.

This award-winning astronomy application will let you explore the sky and identify stars, constellations, planets, comets, satellites such as the ISS, and other deep sky objects in real time in the sky above you in just a few seconds, just by pointing the phone at the sky!

Stellarium Mobile has an easy to use and minimalist user interface that makes it one of the best astronomical applications for children and adults who want to discover the night sky.

It features:

• a catalog of over 600,000 stars displayed as a real time zoomable sky map

• a catalog of many nebulas, galaxies, star clusters and other deep sky objects

• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations for several sky cultures: discover how people see the stars in other parts of the planet

• artificial satellites, including the International Space Station

• realistic Milky Way and Deep Sky Objects images

• realistic landscape and atmosphere with sunrise, sunset and light pollution simulation

• accurate simulation of stars extinction, and atmosphere refraction

• 3D rendering of the major solar system planets and their satellites

• night mode (red) protecting your eyes when doing sky observation at night time

• view a night sky map of stars and planets for any date, time and location

Stellarium Mobile is created by two of the original developers of Stellarium, one of the best astronomy applications on Desktop PC.

The Starry Night High School App for the iPad is the most comprehensive educational astronomy app - period. Use it with your introductory astronomy textbook or on its own. It's a powerful, portable planetarium that fits in your backpack. It puts thousands of stars and planets at your fingertips. It lets you find objects in the sky using your iPad’s built-in compass and accelerometer.

The Starry Night High School App includes thousands of astronomical images, and contains encyclopedic descriptions of the constellations, stars and planets. 35 lessons are built in to the application and correlated to 9th through 12th grade standards. Integrated exercises are joined to hundreds of simulations, images and interactions! The exercises are even mapped to popular astronomy textbooks. A massive object database and the ability to leave Earth and fly into orbit around any Solar System object or nearby star is a most popular feature. It shows you 2.6 million stars, and 31,000 deep sky objects - including the entire NGC/IC catalog and it includes nearly 18,000 asteroids, comets, and satellites with updateable orbits.

The Starry Night High School App for the iPad is guaranteed to make it easier for astronomy students to visually grasp the concepts of astronomy. You’ll be amazed at what you learn and what a great time you'll have with your course and this program.

Exercise Topics Include:
• Earth, Moon and Sun
• Solar System
• The Planets
• Small Solar System Bodies
• Star Finding and Constellations
• The Sun as a Star
• The Stars
• Galaxies and the Universe
• Space Exploration and Technology

Unlock the wonders of the universe with SkyKey, an amazing planetarium application for your device.

SkyKey shows the sky in 3D, like you see it at night time exposing a collection of over 110000 stars. It enables to point your device at the sky and see what stars, constellations, planets or deep space objects are out there in real time.

It’s very easy to use for any viewpoint, time and location on Earth: it determines your location automatically, supports pinch to zoom for more details and provides a highly customizable map.

SkyKey has a full set of features in order to help both casual stargazers and amateur astronomers to explore and locate the objects in the sky:
- sky objects video tours
- constellations with Johannes Hevelius’s artwork
- images for Messier objects
- multiple settings (manual location, time, map customization, etc)
- interactive zoom
- night mode
- constellations, stars, deep space and solar system objects information
- fast loading and initialization
- point to sky mode
- improved sky map graphics: planet images, star colors, diffraction spikes, etc
- alt/az grid