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Star Chart app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 6704 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: ESCAPE VELOCITY LIMITED
Free
Current version: 3.98, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 23 Dec 2009
App size: 27.29 Mb

*** Star Chart is now FREE! *** The top educational & augmented reality astronomy app - download and find out why over 20 million people use Star Chart!

You can now have a virtual star chart in your pocket. Look through the eyes of your iPhone or iPad* to see a high-tech window into the whole visible universe.

All you have to do is point your AR enabled device* at the sky and Star Chart will tell you exactly what you are looking at.

Using state of the art GPS technology, an accurate 3D simulation of the visible universe, and a great deal of technical wizardry, Star Chart calculates – in real time - the current location of every star, planet and moon visible from Earth and shows you precisely where they are; even in broad daylight!

Want to know what that bright star is called? Point your device* at it – you might just find out it’s a planet!

Want to know what the night sky looks like to people on the other side of the earth? Well just point your device down!

Want to know where your star sign is in the sky? Star Chart will tell you all this and more.


Star Charts features include:
- Just point and view. When you hold your device up to the sky, Star Chart will automatically start tracking your movements to match the sky *.

- Alternatively, look around the sky using finger gestures – perfect for armchair astronomers!

- In a single app of less than 30MB, Star Chart dynamically scales its visuals and capabilities across all iOS devices to meet the high end capabilities of a retina display iPad while also running smoothly on the earliest iPhones and iPods.

- Accurately depicts all the visible stars of the northern and southern hemispheres - a total of approximately 120,000 stars!

- Fly to and explore all the planets of the solar system, their moons and the sun all rendered in beautiful 3D with state of the art visual effects.

- Using the powerful Time Shift feature, simply tap the time button and smoothly shift up to 10,000 years forward or backward in time.

- Displays all 88 constellations, with constellation imagery based on the beautiful artwork by 17th century astronomer Johannes Hevelius.

- Includes the complete Messier catalogue of 110 exotic deep sky objects.

- Tap on anything in the sky and get the facts on what you are looking at, including distance and brightness.

- Very powerful zoom function, lets you view the sky in extra detail, using intuitive finger gestures.

- Fully configurable. Star Chart displays only the sky objects that you are interested in.

- Allows you to view the sky underneath the horizon. So now you can see where the sun is, even at night!

- Manually set your location to find out what the sky looks like from anywhere in the world.

- Supports dynamic device orientation viewing. Allows you to view the night sky whilst holding your iPhone/iPad* at any angle.

So point your iPhone/iPad* at the sky and see whats out there!

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* Augmented Reality mode is available on devices that include a built-in compass. Manual scrolling is supported on all other devices.

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Star Chart is published by Escape Velocity Ltd and developed by Escapist Games Ltd. We update Star Chart regularly, so please send us your feedback and feature requests to [email protected].

And thanks for all your feedback so far!

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Pros and cons of Star Chart app for iPhone and iPad

Star Chart app good for

Perfect app. Looks great, works perfectly, got a super clean user surface, perfectly easy to handle, and yet it got all the features you want. I especially want to point out the time switch feature, the location feature (you can set any coordinates on the planet as observing location) and the second user surface which focuses at planets or the sun that can then be viewed in super zoom to examine surface features. Load it, use it, and become a sky-expert. 5 stars and no less is what this app deserves.
Use it often. Sometimes alignment with the stars is a little off. But otherwise a great app.
Fun and educational app, I use it often to spot planets in our solar system, currently I can see Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter, all in the night sky.
the app is perfect but when i use this app I think about the world and wonder about it and how beautiful and magnificent it is and we are just a very little part of it
This app has been a great educational tool and a help for my astrophotography. Thanks!
This is probably the neatest app I have ever downloaded! Ill be using it forever!!

Some bad moments

Just doesnt work at times. Not simple enough for younger people. Thought it was great at first but dont use it much anymore
I used it constantly. Then I got a new phone. Downloaded it and the newer version is very "jerky" and wont focus
Ive had this app for a while now, and up until the last few weeks, it had worked great. I think it needs an update to fix some bugs and itll be great again. When I have tried to use it recently, the screen is very off and doesnt stay still even when you arent moving the phone. It wont calibrate so nothing is where it says it is. When all of this is fixed, Ill come back and change my review if possible. Im more or less trying to get the creators attention so they can fix these issues and the app can properly be used again on my phone!
Every time Ive ever opened this app aside from the first one, it hasnt calibrated itself rendering it pointless. So. Fix it
After upgrading my iPhone 6 to iOS 10, this app is largely unusable. Augmented reality points in unpredictable directions and jumps around.
If an app cannot calibrate itself to know where N-S-E-W is, how could it possibly point out where things in the sky are? Even calibrating my phone before launching the app didnt help, so its USELESS.

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