GoSkyWatch Planetarium User Reviews

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Clever

It works for both nth and south everyone get it

Sir john maxwell Stonham

The music is simply wonderful, you will find many kinds of music for every mood, both of
Which you know and that you may never listened to before, local, National, from many
Country's around the world, you may be thinking of the words and not know the title.
This is where you can put it all together. I commend this.
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How to switch to Southern Hemisphere?

Awesome app, helps easily identify locations of objects. Problem is this is only suitable for the northern hemisphere. Is there an option to switch it to Southern? Would love to be able to use this app but if it is not able to switch to Southrn, can I get a refund?

Absolutely awesome!

Totally worth the small price tag, so amazing to use on a beautiful clear night, when u wanna know what that bright star is? Just point ya iphone/ipad at it and u know, the best app yet!

One of the oldest and best iPhone sky-watching apps

I bought GoSkyWatch Planetarium at the very beginning, when it was over $25, and I never regretted the purchase. The controls are simple and effective, allowing any user to pick it up and figure out how to drive it within moments.

It's a constant companion whenever I look up at the night sky - which is every chance I get!
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Underwhelmed

I'm amazed this has such overwhelmingly positive views. I bought the app a long time ago, and thought it was okay, but IMO there are much better astronomy apps on the App Store, including SkySafari 3 and Sky Walk. Stellarium would be another option, although I've not tried it for iPad (only iPod Touch and Mac). I can just see a lot of people paying the money for this app based on all the 5 star reviews, and not realizing there are better and sometimes cheaper alternatives. This is looking very outdated. The graphics are heavily pixelated when you zoom in, and the way of selecting points of interest, by sliding them into the circle, rather than just touching them, is awkward.
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Go sky watch

Love this app. Superb detail, made me more interested in astronomy. You realize how big the our universe is, so fun finding other stars, galaxies, star shapes etc. Overall great for amateurs. :). Brilliant information

Top of the lot

Out of the 15 astronomy programs available, this app offers a streamlined user friendly interface with instinctual controls. The depth of material it covers it's fantastic, incorporating all the best features of astronomy programs into one. The red light mode is a great option which only one other app current has, when your out doing night viewing very handy
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GoSkyWatch with Questar

I have used this app for one year to help plan my observing sessions with my Questar 3.5 telescope. I can check before nightfall where the major targets are that are suitable for the aperture of the telescope, in this case selecting open clusters double stars and planets. By adjusting magnitutes on the settings it helps you orientate your self the celestial landscape and you will soon learn to navigate your way around the constellations, and have some idea of what the targets look like before hand. The find target function can point you to a slected target, and time adjustments allows you to pick the best observing times when the target will be most comfortable to view through the telescope. It is easier to use than a standard star atas which can look intimidating for the first time user.
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Astro great but...

Great aastronomy app but could be improved for latest ipod users by having a gyroscope control and calibration like other apps such as Skyview.

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