Sky View Ap for iPhone: awesome! Just a heads-up about this free AP I found for the iPhone. It goes by your location (gps in the phone) and the date and time, and you hold it up to the...

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Just a heads-up about this free AP I found for the iPhone. It goes by your location (gps in the phone) and the date and time, and you hold it up to the night sky and it tells you the names of stars and planets, and outlines the major constellations. It is very neat!

Hacksaw Loc: Pacific Northwest

Thanks for posting! I'll try it out tonight.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Been using Google SkyMap for a couple of years, it's great! You can even find things in the sky by asking it to locate them.

har1ey4 Loc: Long Island, New York

sb wrote:

Just a heads-up about this free AP I found for the iPhone. It goes by your location (gps in the phone) and the date and time, and you hold it up to the night sky and it tells you the names of stars and planets, and outlines the major constellations. It is very neat!

Sounds interesting....what is the ap titled? Thanks

har1ey4 Loc: Long Island, New York

har1ey4 wrote:

Sounds interesting....what is the ap titled? Thanks

Hahaha Duh Sky View Ap.....fun getting old....

MtnMan Loc: ID

Longshadow wrote:

Been using Google SkyMap for a couple of years, it's great! You can even find things in the sky by asking it to locate them.

Do you need to be on line for it to work?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

MtnMan wrote:

Do you need to be on line for it to work?

Not sure... I've only used it from home so far, being close to my router.
I also have 4g on so it might go through that if necessary.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Longshadow wrote:

Not sure... I've only used it from home so far, being close to my router.
I also have 4g on so it might go through that if necessary.

I have it on my ipad and it doesn't work w/o wifi.

But I recently acquired iphone so will have to put it on that and try. I live in an area without cell service and the places I go for dark skys also generally do not have crll service either (Idaho).

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

MtnMan wrote:

I have it on my ipad and it doesn't work w/o wifi.

But I recently acquired iphone so will have to put it on that and try. I live in an area without cell service and the places I go for dark skys also generally do not have crll service either (Idaho).

It doesn't work as nicely on my tablet because my tablet does not have a compass in it, my cell phone does. I imagine it would at least need your location (GPS).
Addendum- FYI - I found this on the details at Google Play:

Do I need an internet connection?
No, but some functions (like entering your location manually) won't work without one. You'll have to use the GPS or enter a latitude and longitude instead.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

sb wrote:

Just a heads-up about this free AP I found for the iPhone. It goes by your location (gps in the phone) and the date and time, and you hold it up to the night sky and it tells you the names of stars and planets, and outlines the major constellations. It is very neat!

Thanks. Sounds good.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

sb wrote:

Just a heads-up about this free AP I found for the iPhone. It goes by your location (gps in the phone) and the date and time, and you hold it up to the night sky and it tells you the names of stars and planets, and outlines the major constellations. It is very neat!

It looks like it's available for Android, too.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyviewfree&hl=en

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

MtnMan wrote:

Do you need to be on line for it to work?

No - I used it out at the beach last week. I don't know if it uses the cell connection or not. If not, it really stores a lot of data.

Tom--K4TTA Loc: Near Memphis. TN

SkyPortal by Celestron Telescopes does this; will control the GoTo on the Celestron Evolution line of telescopes; and is also free for iPhone, iPad, and Android. It is independent of internet connections once downloaded.
Tom Richardson, K4TTA
Memphis Astronomical Society
Vice-President for Programs
www.memphisastro.org