SkySafari is a comprehensive astronomy app that offers a seamless stargazing experience. With the largest database compared to any other app in its category, it includes a complete collection of solar system objects ever discovered. The app provides unparalleled accuracy, advanced planning and logging tools, flawless telescope control, and delivers the ultimate stargazing experience. SkySafari has been the top choice for serious amateur astronomers since 2009.
Here's what's new in version 7:
- Complete support for iOS 16 and iPhone 14, offering an immersive stargazing experience.
- Events Finder: The new Events section features a powerful search engine that allows you to find astronomical events visible both tonight and in the future. It generates a comprehensive list of moon phases, eclipses, planetary moon events, meteor showers, and planetary phenomena like conjunctions, elongations, and oppositions.
- Notifications: The notifications section has been completely revamped to enable customization and management of event alert notifications on your device.
- Telescope Support: Version 7 introduces support for ASCOM Alpaca and INDI telescope control protocols, making it effortless to connect to hundreds of compatible astronomical devices.
Stargazing is often a solitary activity, but it also serves as a reminder that we are part of a larger interconnected universe. SkySafari 7 now incorporates social stargazing features to help you connect with like-minded individuals:
- OneSky: This feature allows you to observe what other users are currently viewing in real-time. It highlights objects on the sky chart and shows how many users are observing each particular object.
- SkyCast: With SkyCast, you can guide a friend or group through the night sky using their own copy of SkySafari. You can conveniently share a link with other SkySafari users through text messages, apps, or social media accounts.
Additional features in SkySafari 7 include:
- Sky Tonight: Check the new Tonight section to see what celestial objects are visible in your sky on any given night. This expanded information helps in planning your stargazing session and includes details about the moon, sun, curated calendar events, and the best-positioned deep sky and solar system objects.
- Improved Observation Tools: SkySafari 7 offers enhanced workflows to facilitate adding, searching, filtering, and sorting your observation data. It is the perfect tool for planning, recording, and organizing your observations.
- Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets: Easily access your favorite astronomical information directly from the home and lock screens of your device.
Additionally, SkySafari 7 introduces several enhancements and optimizations, such as the ability to edit the Jupiter GRS Longitude Value in the settings, better Moon Age calculation, expanded grid and reference options, previous in-app purchases now being free, and many more.
If you have never used SkySafari 7 Pro before, here's what you can expect from this feature-rich app:
- Hold up your device, and SkySafari will identify stars, constellations, planets, and more.
- Simulate the night sky up to 100,000 years in the past or future. Witness animated meteor showers, conjunctions, eclipses, and other celestial events.
- Control your telescope and log and plan your observations with ease.
- Optionally backup all of your observing data in secure cloud storage, allowing easy access across multiple devices and the new web interface, LiveSky.com.
- Experience augmented reality (AR) mode.
- Enable night vision mode for optimal stargazing in low-light conditions.
- Explore our solar system with the Orbit Mode, leaving the Earth's surface behind as you fly through space.
- The Galaxy View feature shows the positions of deep sky objects within our Milky Way galaxy.
For more information, please refer to the iTunes and LiveSky privacy policy.
Overview
SkySafari 7 Pro is a Commercial software in the category Education developed by Simulation Curriculum Corp..
The latest version of SkySafari 7 Pro is 7.3.6, released on 07/03/2024. It was initially added to our database on 10/05/2023.
SkySafari 7 Pro runs on the following operating systems: iOS.
Users of SkySafari 7 Pro gave it a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.
Pros
- Offers a vast database of over 120 million stars, 750,000 galaxies, and 700,000 solar system objects for deep sky exploration
- Provides detailed information on celestial objects and allows for easy identification and tracking
- Features high-quality graphics and animations for a visually appealing stargazing experience
- Includes advanced observation tools such as multiple star chart views, telescope control, and time travel simulation
- Supports customization with user-defined observing lists and equipment setups
- Offers regular updates and support from Simulation Curriculum Corp.
Cons
- Premium version may come at a higher price point compared to other stargazing apps
- Advanced features and complex interface may be overwhelming for casual users
- Requires certain technical knowledge and equipment for optimal use, such as telescopes and sky knowledge
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