Applications to see the night sky

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Since the most ancient times, the man has contemplated the sky and has sought different explanations in the stars, from explanations for terrestrial phenomena to spiritual questions.

Contemplating the night sky is, without a doubt, something very pleasant and beautiful, even for those who do not have much astrological knowledge.

Well, you don't need to have studied at Harvard to learn some things about the stars and there are applications that can help a lot in this.

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Next, you will find two applications that will help you to contemplate the sky in a more complete and pleasant way. Let's go.

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Applications to see the night sky

The following applications, working showing them names and location of stars and stars, providing a unique user experience.

Let's see:

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Stellarium – Star map

Our first application to see the night sky is Stellarium. With it, the user can identify all the stars in his field of vision, as well as planets, comets, satellites and other objects.

The application has a technology that allows the user to see all in real time, simply pointing the phone to the sky.

With a simple and minimalist interface, anyone can take advantage of the application's lessons, which have a large database of information about the space.

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The Stellarium application has the following functions:

Simulation of the night sky with great precision, informing of the closing time, the time and the location of the positions of the planets and the stars;
Allows the user to see thousands of stars, stellar clusters, galaxies, nebulae and other objects;
Get an excellent approximation to the Milky Way with the zoom;
Allows the user to see the sky from other parts of the planet Earth;
Follow the course of the artificial satellites;
It simulates very well the environment and the local landscape;
It has 3D rendering technology for the stars, as well as their natural satellites;
The application has a night mode, in which the light is softer, which allows a better adaptation of the eyes in the dark.

You can get the application at the store of applications at one free and paid version, the latter with more tool options to make the experience even better.

Sky Chart

It is a very complete application that provides an excellent experience of viewing the night sky to the user.

The Carta Celeste application, is able to show it name of the stars what is coming. It uses technologies such as the GPS, the wand, the gyroscope and the accelerometer.

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It is able to calculate the location of the mobile phone that is being used, thus providing more precise information about the sky, all in real time.

It also allows see the sky from the other side of the planet, as well as the constellations of the signs.

The Carta Celeste application offers the following tools:

  • 3D solar system;
  • A database with more than 120 thousand stars, with their names;
  • Names and locations of the 88 constellations;
  • Trae el Messier catalogue;
  • Informa sobre las llluvias de estrellas;
  • Names and location of comets
  • Present the artificial satellites;
  • Among other tools.
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