SkEye | Astronomy vVARY

Harshad RJ

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About this app

Developer Description

A map of stars, planets, meteor showers, galaxies and nebulae.

SkEye is a planetarium that can also be used as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes.

Get familiar with the sky by identifying stars, planets, and constellations. For the dedicated sky-gazers there are meteor showers, bright comets and deep sky objects from the Messier and NGC catalogs.

If you have a telescope, just strap the phone onto the OTA to get a PUSHTO guide!

‣ Features
• Time machine : Jump to any date in past or future
• Real time Alt-Azimuth and Equatorial coordinates
• Messier objects
• mini-NGC catalog (subset of ~180 bright objects)
• Solar system objects including all 8 planets and the 4 Galilean moons
• Meteor showers, including Perseids, Geminids, Leonids
• Night Mode
• Search, with a guiding arrow
• Alt-Azimuth, Equatorial grid
• Aligned mode, for PUSHTO guidance

‣ Queries?
Send an email to hi.skeye@gmail.com.

‣ Tips:
• For better accuracy, calibrate the magnetic sensors by waving the phone in a figure-8 motion of your hands.
• For advanced use read: https://lavadip.com/skeye/docs.html
• If you would like to help with translations: https://crowdin.com/project/skeye

‣ App Permissions
• Location: to determine accurate position of celestial objects
• Bluetooth: to support remote sensors

What's New

Major change!

The app now lets the user update the comet data through the internet without waiting for me to package a new release. To update the data go to Settings -> Catalogs -> Comets and click "Update".

Note: This feature requires the Internet permission. I resisted adding the feature for so long because I wanted to avoid the Internet permission. But given that interesting comets have been appearing in quick succession, I had to support this feature along with the additional permission.

In-app purchases

$3.99 per item

Version Information

Version: -
Downloads: 1M+
Updated on: Nov 17, 2025
Released: Dec 28, 2010
Requires: Android Varies with device

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SkEye | Astronomy users say on Google Play

★★★

Spring Bloom

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.

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Nilanga Madushan

Good:

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Çyrēnå Bëënå

app is completely backwards. I wanted to be able to tell what all the celestial bodies in the sky are now that we live in a desolate high desert mountain location but even tho my location is one and i've done the figure 8's for my gyroscope, facing east it says west and facing west it says east. the sun was setting to the west and it said it was in the high noon position at 3:30pm in the winter. Extremely disappointed.