If you’ve ever wondered about the location of constellations or planets in the night sky, SkyView can help answer your questions. An app designed to work with the camera on your smartphone, Skyview blends your camera view with 3-D graphics of the night sky to assist you in locating and identifying any sky object of your choosing. SkyView can help you locate distant galaxies, view the sky at any time in the past or future, and even remind you of upcoming celestial events such as meteor showers. The app doesn’t need an active WiFi connection, so learners can use it outside, on camping trips, or in a home that doesn’t have internet. Because the app allows learners to take pictures and share them with the educator, it can be easily used for homework assignments and group work in the classroom.

Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id413936865

What Users Love About the App

“Simple to use and works great, even in the daytime…to locate Venus for day binocular viewing. Very accurate. Background music adds a nice touch. Well done!”

“This app is amazing. I upgraded to the pay version and glad I did. Gives a lot more information. Also I have seen others post how the program shakes while viewing. Easy fix just do a figure 8, with your phone it will adjust the longitude and latitude.”

“This app is very better for space. It is really very good that all the planets can be seen even with the naked eye in the evening when we see it, Jupiter is also visible and Saturn is also visible.”

“Simply Useful. Finding it hard to calibrate??? I find it useful to extend my arm out and run a few figure 8’s in mid air. Also when locating extend your arm out way out!”

“This is a great app I have ever experienced in my life it not only shows the celestial bodies but it helps us to identify celestial bodies but it helps us to conquer the sky from earth”

What Users Dislike About the App

“I open the app inside my house to have it ready to view the sky… And it looks that I have constellation, stars, planets and even satellites inside my house. this app is a joke!”

“It says “cannot obtain your current location” when I click select location automatically. The gps is on, app location permission is on and Google maps shows location. I stopped and cleared the cache.”

“Despite a working compass, this app points exactly 180 degrees off at all times. Allegedly it can be calibrated, but there is no information about how to do this.”

“Everything is off by a good bit. The moon is in front of me and the app shows it to the left and down by quite a bit. Compass calibration doesn’t work.”

“It lags when switching from and to Dark Mode and there’s no way to change the text size plus not all options are accessible for free.”