Staring the sky in a summer night, hardly anyone could not not be attracted by those mysterious and twinkling stars in the sky. With an iPhone or iPad, you could see those objects you always wished you could. Here we list five apps to help you search for anything from the Moon to Jupiter and from the Andromeda galaxy to the Eagle nebulae.
1 SkySafari
SkySafari is an excellent astronomy app that will help you locate an almost endless amount of objects like galaxies, star clusters, binary systems, planets, nebulae, and much more. It has a built-in time flow feature that lets you control the sky in timed intervals through vcr-like conrtrols.
2 Pocket Universe
Pocket Universe is a great program for stargazing and includes a searchable database of thousands and thounsands of objects, night vision mode, a near-perfect digital compass, and many more features.
3 Distance Suns 2
The application is notable for its database of over 130,000 stars, unique controls for centering the moon, sun, planets, and many other deep-space objects,restoring to your last position, and a digital compass in the full version.
4 Star map HD
Starmap is an excellent program for viewing the night sky, and is recommended for its huge searchable database of over 2.5 million stars, over 13,000 deep sky objects like galaxies and nebulaw, 475,000 asteroids, a Tycho 2 catalog and much more.
5 Luminos-Astronomy Simulator for iPad
This app is essentially a virtual telescope that takes you on a 3D tour of galaxies filled with planets, stars and other space objects. It also presents up-to-date facts and constellation viewing as well.
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