SkEye | Astronomy - Stargazing night vision

SkEye is a planetarium application that doubles as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes. Become acquainted with the sky by spotting stars, planets, and constellations. For enthusiastic stargazers, there are meteor showers, luminous comets, and deep-sky objects from the Messier and NGC catalogs. If you own a telescope, simply attach your phone to the OTA (Optical Tube Assembly) to acquire a PUSHTO guide!

‣ Features

• Time Machine: Transport yourself to any date in the past or future.

• Real-time Alt-Azimuth and Equatorial coordinates

• Messier objects

• Mini-NGC catalog (subset of around 180 bright objects)

• Solar system objects, including all 8 planets and the 4 Galilean moons

• Meteor showers like Perseids, Geminids, and Leonids

• Night Mode

• Search function with a guiding arrow

• Alt-Azimuth, Equatorial grid

• Aligned mode for PUSHTO guidance

‣ Queries?

‣ Tips:

• For enhanced accuracy, calibrate the magnetic sensors by moving the phone in a figure-8 motion.

‣ App Permissions

• Location: to pinpoint accurate positions of celestial objects

• Bluetooth: to connect with remote sensors

Introducing SkEye 

SkEye aims to be an advanced planetarium for Android. The features are geared towards the experienced visual observer, though the interface tries to keep it simple for the beginner. If you are beginning with astronomy, SkEye can help you identify bright stars, planets and constellations simply by pointing your phone / tablet in their direction. This is a great way to familiarize yourself with the sky. 

Virtual DSC 

A unique feature of SkEye is that you can strap your phone to a telescope (or a pair of binoculars) to get a PUSHTO guide, without additional equipment! You only need to follow a simple alignment procedure. Find out more about it in the Documentation section. 

For the pro 

If you are an advanced user or wish to support the project, consider purchasing the pro version It has a larger object database and features that are more useful to the advanced user. Detailed comparison is in the Features section.

FAQs

Q.Why doesn't automatic scroll work on my device? Only manual scroll works.

A.For automatic scrolling, SkEye needs at least two sensors to be present on your device: Acceleromter and Magnetometer.

You can use this app to check which sensors are present and whether they are in working condition.

Q.Why is the view too laggy or too jittery?

A.If the view lags behind when you move the device, then you should increase the sensitivity of the sensors from the settings screen.On the other hand, if the view is very jittery (shaky), then you should decrease the sensitivity.

SkEye 9.5.3(8 July 2024)

fix: when choosing 12:xx PM, the time didn't update in time machine

fix: all links to point to our new site (https://skeye.rocks/)

fix: jitter and crash in About dialog when not connected to the Internet

tweak: zoom speed when pinch-zooming the map

Note that changelogs are now availabe in the documentation. This page is not being updated.