SkEye | Astronomy

Evie Werle

4 years ago

Used in past and showed everything just fine. Last few nights wanting to find jupiter and saturn it showed totally wrong directions and I was not able to locate them. Looking at the moon right now but skyeye tells me moon is in a totally wrong spot to where it actually is. Orientations are all wrong. Very disappointed with app now. Totally useless.

Jaiaid Mobin

3 years ago

[update] Thank you for the response from developer. I think developer has understood the problem. I will be really grateful and will give 5 star if you can do the mentioned fix. I am giving this 4 stars. This app has the alignment feature which is the one I need. Unfortunately, it seems in landscape orientation it doesn't work properly. My phone adapter doesn't allow me to attach the smart phone with telescope ring in portrait orientation. When I try to align using any star, after pressing align the field rotates as if I am holding the phone in portrait mode.

Anirban G

4 years ago

Got to know quite late about it. But yes, it is quite precise in its work. Only wished it had shown the gross distribution of the planetary structures to give an idea of which direction to start pointing in the begining. I wasn't lucky enough to spot the Neowise, due to cloud cover, but yes target was well acquired! Keep it up, team. Loved it. 💚

The Tenth Planet

4 years ago

Handy app and has eased many an anxiety attack whenever my paranoia gets the better of me and I think a meteor is in the sky. One downside is the movement is janky if the phone has a gyro. Sometimes it moves along with you and others it will go in the complete opposite direction. Don't know if this is just down to the phone you're using or the app itself but it can get a bit irritating. Beyond that, well worth the download.

Brett

4 years ago

This is an excellent app and one that gets better the more you learn to use it. I am exited by the indirect mode and am looking forward to testing how useful and accurate it is when attached to my telescope. The search option allows you to sort objects by ease of viewing but I do not understand on Stars why Vega is followed by two lower magnitude stars before Arcturus. For alignment I think only 1 Mag stars and Polaris should be listed. Being able to add targets sounds good so I will probably get the pro version,

Carl Horrocks

5 years ago

I like this app, it makes it very easy to navigate around the night sky. Being able to adjust the opacity of the graphics is really useful too. One criticism, I'd find the ability to zoom-out further, so you're able to see from the zenith to the horizon (plus a few degrees), without needing to scroll, even more helpful.

Hamid Zaree

11 months ago

In my phone, both (12 PM and AM) is set to AM I think just there is a bug in application. In the time machine I couldn't set my time to 12:01 PM.

B

10 months ago

It's great to see an app developer proactively remove unnecessary permissions added unintentionally by one of the included libraries. Well done. On top off that it's a great app 👍

Matthew J H Yates

1 year ago

An elegant and reliable astronomy app. One of a very small number of apps that I rate highly enough to rely upon. The breadth of it's functionality offers good support "out in the field" and it's interface is not overly cluttered which is great in low light conditions using night mode.

A Google user

5 years ago

Something bad is going on with the app. There is a huge delay in reaction to any input you make on the scope, and the motion is extreme. As you make adjustments, nothing happens, and then all of the sudden you are on the other side of the universe. Used to work very well, but lately the sensitivity has plummeted. Please, fix the app, as it is quite neat in its approach to polar alignment.

TSWX3475 BZQ19268

2 years ago

It takes a bit of practice and patience but it's fantastic once you get it. Hold the phone in your left hand in the center of the screen like pulling back a bow string. Put your pointer finger of right hand in the middle of your other two fingers, perpendicularly to the phone in every direction. You will soon be 👉 right at your goal ⭐!

J. Mac Jordan

4 years ago

Well...Generally speaking—It works; It is Free; It has NO ADS—for any would-be app maker...that's a solid ~4 Stars right there. I don't have a choice to parse out the last star...it's certainly not perfect; again, ...it's free..(?). BUT! Free can always be better! Now, I gave 5 stars—however, in the spirit of 'Free & Better,' allow me to criticize: 1. The Horizon needs to be fixable relative to device/preference. 2. An alt perspective would be useful (Sol top-down for ref?) 3. More Free!

Alex T (Pyroixen)

4 years ago

Exactly what I was looking for. It lets you either use the phone sensors to target stuff, or (unlike every other app) allows you to scroll manually. The app doesn't ask for any unnecessary permissions (unlike the other 10 I tried today). And most importantly it doesn't open and then demand money before you can see anything (like the top recommended app does).

Spring Bloom

2 years ago

Ok star map. PUSHTO function simply doesn't work. It will barely locate the saved alignment points and won't get within field of view of searched targets. It would work much better if the view axis could be rotated 90° to view along the phone's longitudinal axis, rather than the camera axis. Then, the phone could be aligned in a mount like a finder, with no need for complex alignments that never actually work.

Rob Bl

1 year ago

If you don't need anything fancy like an app to aim your telescope, this is far and away the best what-is-in-the-night-sky app. And has the best graphics — love the defraction spikes & colors that help stars stand out from other objects. I would enjoy images when zoomed in on planets & nebulae, but that's not what SkEye is for. Fantastic customization options. Intuitive UI. And only 15MB. Its only real shortcoming is a strange dearth of moons around outer planets. (Doesn't zoom in far enough?)

Jallisa Sin

2 years ago

I've used this so for years but recently.. perhaps because I changed devices..I no longer have the ability to view the sky as I move my phone. I'm not sure how you refer to that feature but for me that was the reason I used the so... now it only serves as a basic non interactive sky map... and as awesome as that is its just not the same level of awesomeness.... please help me fix this issue if it's on my end... thank you

Big Rocket

4 years ago

Just point your phone at different parts of the sky to update the sky map. But search function is confusing. Don't click on magnifying glass in main sky map screen. Instead, click on the 3 vertical dots (...), then click on the magnifying glass. Why would you program the search function this way? Please fix it. The app takes up just 2 Mb of space on your phone, not like some other apps taking up 100+ Mb. Thank you developer.