Sky Guide

3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars | 28 ratings

Price: 2.88

Last update: 01-10-2025


Product Details

Release Date: 2015
Date first listed on Amazon: February 20, 2015
Developed By: alcyone software
ASIN: B00TU6WHUQ
Customer reviews:
3.3 out of 5 stars28 customer ratings

Developer info

  • mail@alcyone.de
  • http://www.alcyone.de
  • More apps by this developer

Product features

  • astronomy app for sophisticated star enthusiasts and hobby astronomers
  • well-founded and precise astronomical illustrations and data
  • detailed, scalable and fully user-configurable celestial map with constellations and celestial objects
  • additional information for every celestial object
  • complemented by a number of astronomical tools and data

Product description

Sky Guide is an astronomy app for sophisticated star enthusiasts and hobby astronomers who value well-founded and precise astronomical illustrations and data.

The basic app function displays a detailed, scalable and fully user-configurable celestial map with constellations and celestial objects (limit magnitude up to 6.3) that are visible with the naked eye or smaller telescopes. The place and time of observation as well as the direction of view can be manually configured by the user or automatically with the so-called “Live mode” (i.e. GPS, real-time and compass-guided).

Detailed additional information is available for every celestial object (fixed star, deep sky object, planet, moon, sun, meteorite shower). The information of the Bright Star Catalog and the Washington Double Star Catalog is made available for fixed stars. Additionally, users can add notes and links for every object.

The powerful search function makes it possible to align the map to a specific celestial object or guide the observer – in „live mode“ – to an object in the starry sky with specific notices. Searches can be performed according to the traditional name of an object, the catalog designation or the constellation. Moreover, the app makes it easy to identify celestial objects by aligning the device to the object in “Live mode”.

The functionality of the app is complemented by a number of astronomical tools and data, e.g. an astronomical event calculator, an orbit diagram (orrery), a moon viewer (a scalable, orthogonal, geocentric or topocentric moon projection while properly taking the libration, moon phase, position angle and parallactic angle into account) and an ephemerides generator.

User Data Privacy

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Technical details

Size: 41.8MB
Version: 2.1.0
Developed By: alcyone software
Application Permissions: ( Help me understand what permissions mean )
  • Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
  • Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
  • Access information about networks
  • Open network sockets
  • Read from external storage
  • Write to external storage
Minimum Operating System: Android 4.0
Approximate Download Time: More than 5 minutes

Top reviews from the United States

  • Daniel Duenas
    2.0 out of 5 stars Decent
    Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2015
    It's cool but super confusing to use I wish it was like the "skyview" app on the Apple store where you use the sun or moon to calibrate the app so you can know exactly where to look at for stuff
  • Amazon Customer
    1.0 out of 5 stars Total waste of time and money.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2017
    Waste of money hard to use, hard to see on screen overly complicated. As usual with modern software image over aplication, why can someone not simply provide an app that does what the old manual star finder
    2102_D did. Keep it simple, or at least let the user cut out the crap. We only need the bodies, the names and an elevation \ azimuth grid both clearly labeled.
  • steven spenner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great guide
    Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2018
    Works great mapping the constellations
  • decA440
    1.0 out of 5 stars doesn't change position
    Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2020
    Looking for an app like the one that is available for iPad through Apple for my Kindle Fire but this one did not work at all. Does not change positions when the tablet is moved and show the sky immediately overhead.
  • Dennis Rouse
    2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017
    I have not had any luck with this program. I don't think it’s compatible with Fire Table?
  • Shirley
    1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2018
    Waste of money. Bought but would not operate on my Samsung Galaxy 5 phone.
  • heather
    1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't seem to work on the kindle
    Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2019
    This app doesn't seem to work on the kindle.

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