Vortex Planetarium - Discover the sky!
Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy v1.3.9play.google.com.app.vortex
The most comprehesive, fully featured Planetarium on Android.
Used by amateur astronomers and armchair observers alike, Vortex Planetarium offers a window to the skies in stunning detail.
Features:
- Sky mode turns your device into a digital telescope, just hold it to the skies to activate. *
- View the skies at any place in the world, at any point in time.
- Ability to view from a specific location, by entering coordinates manually or searching by city, or use your network provider or GPS. Your location will be automatically set when using network provider or GPS. Your location will be saved for future use. Vortex Planetarium automatically adjusts to your time zone.
- Ability to view the sky at a desired time or view in realtime. Using the Time Slider allows you to fast forward or rewind time; follow the path of any object.
- Camera mode. True AR for your device (Android 2.3+)
- Over 20000 objects to touch and discover; stars, planets, dwarf planets and asteroids, moons, galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, constellations & meteor showers. Includes the major moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Uranus.
- Full NGC/IC catalog
- Full Messier and Caldwell Deep Sky Object catalogs.
- What's up? Discover what is in the sky tonight with this handy feature.
- Constellation artwork.
- Detailed information on all objects:
- Rise, set and transit times with quick time change for rapid reference.
- Right ascension, declination, azimuth, altitude, apparent magnitude.
- As above plus planetary conjuctions & oppositions, phase, visibility, apparent diameter, distance, mass, radius and much more.
- Fully searchable. Let Vortex Planetarium guide you to the selected object using the "Guide Me" arrow.
- Highly configurable. Options include a Naked Eye Visibility setting to match your location, Telrad reticule, day/night cycles, constellation boundaries, ecliptic, font size and much more.
- Night mode to preserve vision.
- High power multi touch zoom. Non multi touch devices can double tap.
- Accounts for magnetic declination.
- Respects your device's natural orientation, works in landscape or portrait mode.
- Comprehensive help menu.
- Ice Cream Sandwich & Honeycomb friendly.
- Installs to SD card if your device is running Android OS 2.2 or higher.
What's in this version : (Updated : May 30, 2012)
- NGC overhaul - Includes Full NGC/IC catalogs with improved distinction between object types & added information in NGC information, density slider in settings.
- Planet information shows dates of next conjunction & opposition (superior/inferior conjunctions for inner planets)
- Meteor rise/set times added.
- Night mode improvements - Change brightness level in settings.
- Instant on resume if Vortex is still in memory.
- Lens flare added - Can be disabled in settings.
- What's up bug fix/minor fixes.
Required Android O/S : 2.1+
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