Leave a Review GoSatWatch Satellite Tracking
Works perfectly!!!
I saw the ISS for the first time tonight and this app was dead on with location and brightness. As soon as the ISS started getting dimmer and faded away the app showed the magnitude slowly diminish until it went to nothing. Exactly on time! I live near downtown Memphis and it was easily bright enough to see (it got to magnitude -1 so it was pretty bright anyways) even on a cloudy night. Very cool!!!Show lessbeav311
Iss views
Predicts ISS passes nicely.bradley57
iSteven-Andrew
Purchased this sat viewing app recently after purchasing most of the rest but this app is by far the best thing out there!
It may indeed cost considerably more than other sat viewing apps but this app does it all - and when I say it does everything, I mean it really does absolutely everything!
I spend countless hours tracking sats flying around on clear nights or between cloud formations with such accuracy that I can just point in the sky and there the sat is!
This app is so cool, I really can't give it enough praise but I'll say this, if you want loads of fun and are into sat viewing, then this is the only app you'll ever need!
Ps..for those interested in planet veiwings, try goskywatch - you really just have to hold up your iPhone to the sky and point to the object and bingo, it tells what the object is, how near or far away it is from where you are and gives you telescopic views as you would see in your viewer!
Gone are the days when I have to try and figure out if I'm looking at Saturn, Venus or a bright star or if I'm looking north, south, east or west!
Another great update with the 'pass alerts'!Show lessiSteven-Andrew
Best of the bunch.
*review update again*
The addition of alarms is awesome!! Ive been wanting an update with this exact feature.
Thank you very much!!!!!
And to the reviewer who gave a 1 star review because the app showed sts128 but it landed...
This app uses TLEs. These numbers are used by the app to make a PREDICTION as to where a satellite will be. THIS IS NOT A LIVE APP!! If you dont update your TLEs your app will always show the shuttle in orbit. I have now explained it to you, please fix your review. The creators of this app don't deserve a poor rating.
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This was my 3rd sat tracking app. Defenatly the top app in the category. Also the only one that includes magnatudes. I think a slight tweak in the GUI would be nice, it took me a bit of time to notice where magnatudes were listed. I really like the fact that there are unique icons for the items. Alot of programs will have the shuttle/ISS/HST as just generic satellite icons. Defenatly a handy tool to have in your pocket. Good work! Worth $10 but would be an amazing buy @$5-$7.
*review update*
changed to 5 stars.
The more I use the program the more impressed I get. I watched the ISS pass tonight and noticed that as it passed the magnatude # in the app changed as it was moving. Very cool.
5 stars!Show lessFebruaryXVI
Nicely done
GoSatWatch worked wonderfully! I had mostly been playing with the program.
But, I happen to update the orbital elements this evening and noted the ISS/Shuttle would pass overhead in a few minutes! The program's well thought-out UI allowed me to share with and show to my wife and 10 yo daughter what was about to happen - where the ISS/Shuttle would first appear and what direction they would travel across the sky. We went out into the back yard and in a few minutes, at the time and place depicted by the program's charts, they appeared! What a thril!
After the excitement died down, I used the program to check for future convinient obverving times. I found one for night after next. We will be better prepared.
By the way, one needs to update the orbital elements. One could easily run the program with stale data and find a shuttle in orbit when it shouldn't be in orbit....
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Almost perfect
I purchased GoSatWatch only because the app I was used to using on Palm and Windows Mobile was, at that time, not available on this platform. As one of my earliest purchases it was a revelation of how nicely an iPhone/Touch app could be done. The design aspects and the functionality are almost impeccable. You could easily be outside looking at a satellite within 10 minutes of buying GoSatWatch. It's so simple to use and the setup required is minimal. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is because it does not let me easily see passes over a longer period, say for the next week or month. Not to say you cannot quickly step through the coming week, but when a satellite only occasionally has visible passes over your location, it would be much nicer to simply see the next month of passes. There's also a slight quirk in the way passes are displayed. For example, after pressing "Tonight" you will see today's date and a line with today's sunset time. There will also be a line for tomorrow's sunrise. Between those lines are passes. You need to be aware that if it says "AM" the pass is tomorrow. I guess this makes sense, but when I first used GoSatWatch early one morning and saw today's date at the top with a predicted pass of "5:30 AM", I thought it meant a pass was about to happen. I still feel a little bit uncomfortable with that minor thing. But overall, GoSatWatch does a great job and it's a bargain.Show lesslanceanz
Very well done
Well presented and extremly fast. Good to be able to define your own groups of birds. Worth the money for such an elegant product.LangSpoon
The Best Satellite Tracking App For iPhone/iTouch!!
I have used this for a few months now, the accuracy is amazing!! The birds appear for viewing at the predicted time, and point in the sky. So much easier then running back and forth looking at a desktop application or carrying chart printouts. I wish this was around years ago. Don't waste your time and $$ with anything else!Show lessMarkyMark11111
GoSatWatch - Keep Looking Up
Tonight I'll get four(4) views of the ISS in one dark-cycle, thanks to GoSatWatch. This program not only replaces PocketSat for my old Palm III xe, but trumphs it. Updating TLEs is a piece of cake and the view info with magnatude really make this app shine. And, unlike its recently upgraded brother GoSkyWatch, it it still works on 2,2,1. If you're into things that go orbit in the night, this will be the best ten dollars you have ever spent.Show lesskodachromeforever
Nice
I like the software it is very nicely done some suggestions for improvements would be:
1: when you click on a satellite give a picture and info description so you know what the satellite looks like and small description of it. Obviously some satelittes do not have info available to the public. Perhaps a database with pics and info for those satelittes that info can be found on.
2: provide URLs you can choose where to pick up data on more satelittes so it adds it to the app automatically.Show lessSabre31
