Welcome to the Homepage of Mobile Observatory!
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Mobile Observatory is one of the most complete astronomy apps on the Android market and the perfect tool for anybody interested in the sky's wonders, from the occasional sky gazer to the passionate amateur astronomer.
You want to know if the next lunar eclipse is visible from your location or when the next bright comet is visible? You would like to be notified by your smart phone the next time, Jupiter and the Moon meet in the sky? You want to know what the blazing bright object in the evening sky is? You want to be always up-to-date which celestial events are visible from your location? Then this app is a must-have for you! The app does not only include a live, zoomable sky map telling you what sky object you are looking at but provides you with loads of detailed extra information on stars, planets, deep sky objects, meteor showers, comets, asteroids, lunar and solar eclipses as well as detailed ephemeris of all included sky objects and an interactive top-down view of the Solar System. All that in just one app! Currently, Mobile Observatory is available in English, Spanish and German. Translations to other languages are in progress. |
Main Features
- Zoomable sky map showing stars, planets, asteroids, and more (above and below the horizon)
- Interactive top-down view of the Solar System - Live mode (point device on sky and get information on what you see) - Calendar showing detailed descriptions of celestial events - Push celestial events to your phone's calendar and set a reminder alarm - Rise, set, and transit times for any object - Position of any object in the sky (altitude and direction) - Twilight times, length of day - Bright Star Catalog (~9000 stars) with detailed informations - More than 400 000 additional stars from the PPM Star Catalog (Android 3.1 or higher required) - 2500 selected NGC objects (galaxies, clusters, ...) - Messier Catalog (110 objects) complete with images - Caldwell Catalog (110 objects) complete with images - Hidden Treasures Catalog (109 objects) complete with images - Meteor streams (begin, maximum, hourly rate, ...) - Lunar and solar eclipses information - Bright comets (automatically selected according to the date) - Dwarf planets: The five known dwarf planets - Minor planets: bright, near Earth, trans-Neptune (more than 10000 in the database) - Update database online: download up-to-date orbital elements of comets and minor planets - Moon phases, the apparent view of the sun and planets - Current image of the Sun and sunspot number - Automatically generated visibility report for any object - Intuitive User Interface: quickly find what you are looking for - Widget with rise & set times of the Sun and Moon - Automatic location determination from the mobile network or GPS - Select a location from a built-in database or online via Google Maps - Choose any time and date - Detailed ephemeris, visibility information of all objects - Dates of conjunctions between any object with planets or the Moon - 3D-view of the Moon and the planets - Accurate calculations for dates between 1900 and 2100 The current version is 1.99.3 New since Version 1.90: - Hidden Treasures List (110 Deep Sky objects with images) - Asteroid 2012DA14 (close encounter with Earth on Feb 15) - Photorealistic stars (optional, can be toggled via Sky View Preferences->Display) - Select types of events to be shown in the Events Calendar - Backup/Restore Favorites on SD-card - Update and download catalogs online - Extended star catalog (PPM Star Catalog, mv=11, >400000 stars), download via Object Database->Download Catalogs - extended Minor Planets database (can be updated daily online) - Several bugfixes (e.g. twilight diagram, Russian timezones) - New starting screen with quick access to the most important features - 2500 objects of the New General Catalog (NGC) - Compass view (Azimuth & Altitude) in the object list and for each object separately - Twilight diagram & times for golden and blue hours - Overview information screen for each object - 3D-view for planets - New object categories: Dwarf Planets, Binary Stars, Bright/Near-Earth/Trans-neptunian Minor Planets - Object descriptions for many objects (presently for about 100 objects available, can be updated online) - Automatically generated visibility reports for all objects - Improved night mode (adaptable) - All object lists can be sorted - Star ephemeris information extended (colors, binary star information) - Screen orientation can be fixed and screen can be kept permanently turned on - Show objects below the horizon in Sky View - Change interface language from Settings Menu - Pluto added - Spanish localization - Follow object in Sky View - Better precision for position calculation of Solar System objects (VSOP87) - Completely new improved user interface - Optimization for tablets and landscape mode - Define favorite objects - Detailed information about all 88 constellations - Link to Wikipedia page for most objects - Yearly visibility graphs showing magnitude and apparent diameter - List of the 10 next solar and lunar eclipses - Help-button on each page - Tonight's Best - Better search function |
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