SkySafari 6 Pro

SkySafari 6 Pro

By Simulation Curriculum Corp.

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2017-12-22
  • Current Version: 6.7.6
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 1.90 GB
  • Developer: Simulation Curriculum Corp.
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
Score: 4.77564
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Description

SkySafari 6 Pro will revolutionize your astronomical viewing experience. It has the largest database of any astronomy app, includes every solar system object ever discovered, offers unparalleled accuracy, flawless telescope control, Augmented Reality (AR) mode, and provides the very best experience under the stars when you depend on it. Discover why SkySafari 6 Pro is the #1 recommended astronomy app for serious amateur astronomers since 2009. Here's what's new in version 6: 1) Complete support for iOS 13 and iPhone 11. We release regular updates. 2) Clouds and Astronomy. Two words that rarely go together. SkySafari 6 Pro will (optionally) back up all of your observing data in our secure cloud storage and make it easily accessible to multiple devices as well as from our new web interface, LiveSky.com. 3) We Have The Best Stars. Precise, modern and deep. We’ve updated our star catalog to use the latest and greatest, UCAC5 star catalog. If 25 million stars down to 15th magnitude isn’t enough for you, an easy in-app purchase gets you down to 16.5 magnitude and a whopping 100 million stars! 4) We Have The Best Galaxies. The PGC catalog includes galaxies down to 18th magnitude. Want more galaxies? How about 2.6 million more? An in-app purchase gives you access to the largest galaxy database available for your device. 5) Observers First. A redesign of our tools puts the active observer first. Quick access to features like your equipment, observing sites, lists, and observations make it easy and enjoyable to get out, observe, and record your observations. The observing sessions feature lets you collect your observations into groups that span a few hours, or a few nights. 6) Graph It. The completely new graph tool will give a quick visual representation of an object’s altitude above the horizon. Essential for planning your night’s observations. 7) Plan It. Make the most of your time under the stars. Our updated planner is a powerful tool that lets you create a list of targets for your observing session with filters like object types, specific time ranges, constellation, catalog, and more. Plan it and get more done. 8) Say It. Ever just wanted to just yell at your device and tell it what to do!? SkySafari 6 adds basic voice control for a wide range of operations. Say “select Jupiter,” “search for Titan,” “center on Polaris” and SkySafari will do the work for you. Yelling optional.  9) Tilt It. Every old astronomy app these days lets your tilt and pan your device to show different parts of the sky, but who else lets you control your telescope that way!? “Tilt to slew” is an optional mode allowing you to keep your eye in the eyepiece, and, using the accelerometers in your device, gently translate the movements of your hands into smooth telescope motion. 10) Share It. SkySafari 6 is more than just a mobile app, it’s a new system to help organize and share your observing experiences. With a free signup, you can see and share your observing data from our web portal, LiveSky.com! Affordable premium memberships add online editing, so you can not only view, but edit your observations, add new observing sites, manage your equipment and more. Finally, (coming soon) you can view, edit and manage your settings files with SkySafari Web, our fully functional web version. If you haven't used SkySafari 6 Pro before, here's what you can do with it: • Hold your device up, and SkySafari 6 Pro will find stars, constellations, planets, and more! The star chart updates automatically with your movements for the ultimate stargazing experience. • Simulate the night sky up to 10,000 years in the past or future! Animate meteor showers, conjunctions, eclipses, and other celestial events. • Control your telescope, log and plan your observations. • Night Vision. • Orbit Mode. Leave the Earth’s surface behind, and fly through our solar system. • Galaxy View shows the position of deep sky objects in our Milky Way! • Much more!

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  • Horrible Support

    3
    By Don in Frisco
    Dear Simulation Curriculum Team, please figure out how to do support right. I want to display solar system distances in miles, but cannot figure out how to do this. Object Info shows distances in km and light time units (usually seconds or minutes). How do I see miles? Many people on Cloudy Nights are asking about this, too. You need to have an email or contact chat where we can ask questions like this. Thanks in advance for your help.
  • Crashes upon opening

    1
    By SecretSquirrelSociety
    This app crashes upon opening on iOS 14.3. Disappointed that it’s been a month since an update was released.
  • User for 6 years

    5
    By phillipbab
    Best value in Astronomy
  • New purchase

    5
    By Sew020
    When purchased I thought it would appear not only on my I phone but also on my tablet?? I have upgraded twice before
  • It could be way better.

    3
    By iTizzy9105
    I have a few suggestions: 1. Can you add ability to tag up to three items. So their position can be tracked relative to each other over time? More like a group select feature. 2. An option to select specific satellites to track would also be great rather than having the thousands available displayed at once making the app useless and impossible to view. 3. Must have feature: When in AR Mode, can a manual or machine learning AI based “correction” be applied by identifying the position of the sun or moon and making appropriate position and view correction and keeping the correction locked in even after the AR mode is existed. I think this is critical for accurate positioning and data and act as a secondary calibration method. This will also allow for a fix when the on-device compass goes out of wack and will allow manual compass adjustments.
  • SkySafari has always been a great app!

    4
    By Universe Observer
    09 Dec 2020 SkySafari has always been a great app for observational use as well as communicating upcoming events. I use it for myself as well as for others as a pointer for where to look for the events like yhis year’s closest conjunction between Saturn and Jupiter in 800 years. Along with this “emailed” info, I also like to show screen shots on a day by day basis 5 days befor and after the event like this. Unfortunately, on of the big drawbacks in automatically advancing and recording the animation is that the user does not have any control over how fast those increments jumps in time occur. I’d really like to see the fixed as a setting so it can be slowed down to a reasonable timelapse sequence, especially on increments larger than a minute. I resort to manually stepping thru while recording right now. If this was changed, I would not hesitate to this up to 5 stars. It is very close to that now.
  • In app purchases?

    3
    By stormspotter4u
    I purchased all four in app add ons but the Apollo lunar missions and the PGC extensions do not install? Help please!
  • 6 Pro vs 5 Pro

    3
    By Olgazer
    I have both on my iPad Air 2. Been using 5 Pro since it was first offered, controlling Meade ETX-90, ETX-125, and 8” LX200GPS. I seldom open 6 Pro... too cumbersome.
  • Bug

    3
    By Awesome Mogwai
    I like to read the sky at certain times in history. Every time I get into observation, it resets to the current time - even after I disable it. Please allow me to turn that off so that I may look at the sky how I want to. Thank you.
  • I love it

    5
    By musicalengineer
    I’m an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer and I use sky safari every day. It’s terrific and just what I need. It’s easy to use and stable.

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