CraigFair wrote:
I'm looking to install a Star Map App for my LG Phone.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I want to see Star names, Constellations, Deep Sky Objs and Planets.
Thank you.
Craig
I use several (Android). I have SkySafari 4 Pro. It is produced by the same people that produce SkyPortal and has more objects in its database. I have SkyPortal too.
I have Distant Suns and Mobile Observatory (both free apps). And of course Google Sky map. Mobile Observatory has a lot of features and is really good. Distant Suns is not as good.
In Mobile Observatory, there is a sky view. I like it when I what to make sure I can identify the bright stars. It is a less busy view and shows the constellations and star names. And the more you expand, the more star names that show up.
Later, I close that one and go to SkySafari or SkyPortal since they can show the DSO's.
And I use a tablet for this. The cell phone screen is just too small.
Now the problem I run into is that with my progressive lens glasses, when I hold the tablet up at arms length, it is out of focus since I am using the top portion of my glasses. The stars are in focus, but not the screen. If I take my glasses off, the screen is in focus, but I can not longer see the stars in focus. Bugs me.
And speaking of focus, if I look through the telescope eyepiece (without glasses), the astigmatism is bad enough that the stars are never quite nice points. With glasses, the progressive lens makes the star change as I move my eye around a bit. But when I look at them on the LCD of my Sony camera, they are perfect points, and all I need to do is to carefully focus them to the smallest size. And it doesn't take much adjustment to go past that perfect spot.
I also have dedicated reading glasses and dedicated distance glasses, but each of those posses a problem using the scope at night. Oh how I remember the what the sight through a telescope looked like when I was young! Started with a 3" reflector when I was around 12, and later to an Edmund Scientific 4.25" reflector a few years later.