Love this app! I'm obsessed with learning what it is that I'm seeing in the sky. I use it often and it always works the way it should, there are no ads even on the free version + no pushing you to pay for anything although there is an affordable option to upgrade with a free trial which is appreciated. And after almost a year of using it only one rating request. Absolutely nothing negative to say about it.
Akio Crimson
It does show the C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) comet currently passing by, but I can only find it using the search feature. Can't find by moving my phone around. If I search for it and turn on camera movement to figure out exactly where it is in real time, I completely lose track of it and it's impossible to find. The movement sensitivity is too high, I can see my heartbeat shaking the camera. Too much zoom out, turns into a dizzying fish eye lens thing.
Robert Hall
Pretty cool, I wish in the free version I could set certain constellations to always be visible. And that I could put notes on the screen beside certain constellations. It would also be nice if it told a bit of the history of each constellation and how sailors used them to navigate by, I realize it would also need a disclaimer (... don't try this on your own boat...the Vikings stayed close to shore the first hundred years and may have used some sort of magical crystal you likely don't have).
Shyla Smith
very easy to navigate. been using this app for over a year. I love that it shows stars, comets, meteor showers, etc. pretty much anything you want to find in the sky. it has real time or can use slider to fast forward (good for tracking) my only con, which recently just started, is it keeps saying to calibrate my location and location not being accurate. I've done what it says to do many times with no luck. other than that and even with that, this is still a great FREE app.
Juniper Brown
The free version is pretty handy as a quick access reference tool, but the full version is incredible. The price tag did initially fall into my automatic "apps should never cost this much" repulsion, but I made an exception since the price was a one time expense. I couldn't be happier with that decision. The full version has so many useful abilities. The calendar of events tailored to current location is reason enough, but the encyclopedic info and level of zoomable detail are icing on the cake.
SilentMike822
Simply awesome. This app inspired me to buy a telescope. I also love seeing random objects flying through the sky and being able to look and find out its some rocket body fron some previous launch or, hey its the International Space Station! Not sure how expansive their database is on that, but I've yet to have it not be able to tell me what the object was. Granted, it's been like 3 times. But 3 for 3 is pretty good.
Vespovich
Really awesome app, one of the best on the store. My only issues are the occasional impurities in the photographs of the sky (I'm assuming they're reflections of the studio, equipment, etc.) and wish they would be edited out. That, and I wish there were more 3d models of major stars and deep sky objects. If those small things were fixed, this app would be perfect.
Peter Rippe
Even though this doesn't have all the features of the desktop version, this is still plenty useful on it's own; and by buying you are helping support the desktop app, which is totally free! This is the price to pay for good open source software, and that is more than reasonable. One issue; sensor-look turns on too easily when you have manually moved to an object and want to read without holding the phone in the air...an onscreen button to lock the view, or similar, would be stellar ;)
Connor Trumbull
This is a fantastic app. I use it every time I take my telescope out to stargaze. The positions and names of everything are accurate, even with the deep sky objects. With premium, you can use GoTo or a similar computerized tracking technology to automate your telescope for ease of use, and you get specific times for when an object will be most easily visible. I also use the app for planning ahead of time what I want to observe to save time when it matters. Overall, 10/10 would highly recommend.
FED Fraud.Protection.Service
I have Stellarium on the laptop and it's awesome. Problems with this one: it frequently displaces the compass by up to 45 degrees occasionally. The. Compass on this phone is reliable and accurate. Might not be a big problem if you are using stars to guide you (although 30 or 40 degrees could be. I use it to aim my 5" reflector on nights when magnitude 2 and 3 are washed out. Some other operational handicaps. I often need to switch out to note-taking. Like it. Don't love it.
