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Most of you probably already know about this application but I found out about it just last night.. and it's amazing! It's called SkyMap. It allows you to hold your phone up to the night (or daytime) sky and it gives you a from my experience accurate representation of just about everything you can see -and some things you can't- with the names. The coolest part in my opinion is the search feature in which you can type in a celestial object, ie. Jupiter, and it will guide you with an arrow until you zero in on it.
Have any of you astronomy enthusiasts (like myself) heard about this or maybe have it? Btw it's free so I didn't think I would be breaking any site rules by posting this. I was just amazed by it- i was outside for about 30 minutes last night playing with it [:p]
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June 25th, 2012, 3:29 pm
Sky Map
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June 25th, 2012, 3:29 pm
I am an amateur astronomer, although my telescope really isn't great - it was pretty much the best I could afford at the time.
I have used SkyMap in the past to help me quickly find things before training my telescope in their direction. I have found it to be usually fairly accurate, although at times, it has been way off! It's not bad, though, especially seeing as it's free. I use it also in conjunction with my meteor shower time table app. I get a nifty text when a meteor shower is a week or so before it's peak and data about which direction will be best to look - so I know which weekends to pack up the tent and go to mid Wales where it is absolutely black at night, no light pollution. You can see the Milky Way with just your eyes, there.
Does all this make me sound quite sad? (He says, posting on a coaster enthusiast website lol). I love Astronomy; had I applied myself at school rather than being interested in Football and minge, I may have been some kind of cosmologist at this stage, as my younger (and much more motivated) brother is about to begin at Cambridge studying Physics and Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a research scientist at CERN.
Life story over; yes, SkyMap is pretty good given that it's a free app [;)]
I have used SkyMap in the past to help me quickly find things before training my telescope in their direction. I have found it to be usually fairly accurate, although at times, it has been way off! It's not bad, though, especially seeing as it's free. I use it also in conjunction with my meteor shower time table app. I get a nifty text when a meteor shower is a week or so before it's peak and data about which direction will be best to look - so I know which weekends to pack up the tent and go to mid Wales where it is absolutely black at night, no light pollution. You can see the Milky Way with just your eyes, there.
Does all this make me sound quite sad? (He says, posting on a coaster enthusiast website lol). I love Astronomy; had I applied myself at school rather than being interested in Football and minge, I may have been some kind of cosmologist at this stage, as my younger (and much more motivated) brother is about to begin at Cambridge studying Physics and Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a research scientist at CERN.
Life story over; yes, SkyMap is pretty good given that it's a free app [;)]
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