Leave a Review GoSkyWatch Planetarium iPad
Fantastic
Absolutely fantastic for anyone interested in astronomy or with an inquisitive mind. For the advanced or novice who wants a great star-finder. But, this is more than just a star-finder. It's a handheld planetarium and more.Skyhawk pilot
Version 8.1.0 is rubbish. AVOID!
With IOS 9.3.5, I hoped that this app would get better. It got more tricky to use. The direction sensing is not working at all, whereas older versions were fine. The calibration ball pops up, but when I try to calibrate it, it disappears! So the compass is useless now. Changing the time seems more cumbersome now, and you have to close the time adjustment to move the sky, otherwise the sky spins uncontrollably. It is a hugely useful app, but it is disappointing that things have got worse not better with time. Even the look of the icons looks less professional, in fact it now looks incredibly cheap and naff. Has this company been bought out? I can't believe the same people are in charge, this is so rubbish. A great shame; I think some heads need to roll.Show lessOfeliawotsits
A joy to use and learn from
I have a few star watching apps but this is the best to use. Easy and intuitive and I use it every night to try to learn more about the night sky. Los Angeles doesn't have a lot of the sky visible because of the air and light pollution but I'm lucky that I live a distance from some of it. I love the options and scan the sky looking for planets, major stars and constellations.
Took me a while to notice there was an option to limit visible only and explained why I couldn't find some stars that I knew by name but didn't show up.
Highly recommend this to anyone, even if it just whet your appetite for something with a little more sophistication , but I'm not there yet and from what this has to offer, it will be quite a while.Show lessCC L.A
GoSkyWatch 4.6.0
Fantastic!!! Best program of its kind that I have found. The more I use it the more I discover things that it is capable of doing. (Like tracing out the sun Analemma as a function of time.) I input my own location with a high degree of accuracy and find extremely good accuracy in everything else that it calculates. I find the accuracy of the program to be Impressive. The display is very realistic as to the relative brightness of the stars and constellations, just the way you see them. You are to be congratulated for creating such a versatile program. Being able to choose between ordinary time, the mean solar day or sidereal days is very useful. In fact, that is what allows you to see the Analemma traced out over the course of a year choosing the time for displaying the result by a simple flick of your finger.Show lessMarymeek
Fantastic Demo for the Sky Observer App
A fantastic application for demonstrating the full potential of the iPad device. It is an intuitive tool for connecting anyone with the night sky, anyplace on earth they may be.
I would be nice to add data from the NASA and JOL sights for live artificial satellite tracking, identifying and pointing out objects as they pass overhead. Adding data for transient astronomical events, like comets and visible nova might be nice. Maybe including some more asteroids would also be good.
Great job and excellent job drawing together all the talent it must have took to make this interactive sky chart possible and doing so artfully.Show lessDucks and Pheasants
Top App
I wanted to find out what the 2 distinct stars near the moon were tonight and downloaded GoSkyWatch. What a brilliant app! The brightest one was actually Venus and the other one was Jupiter. That has made my day! Thanks for making such an incredible and informative app :)Tooogood2Btru
Really we'll done
I am an amateur astronomer in the suburbs and after some testing have come to favor this app for my needs. One of its best features (for me at least) is the ability to dial in the limiting magnitude for viewing in your area. It also adjusts the brightness of the objects on the screen, too. For example, a magnitude 3 object is very dim if you have dialed in that as the level of your seeing, but if you have magnitude 5 set as your threshold that same object will appear brighter on the screen. This helps make the sky on the iPad look a lot more realistic when you look out at your own sky and try to find things. Just one of my favorite features of this app.Show lessTedK.
I am VERY impressed
This is perhaps the greatest single app I have ever used. One hour with this app last night, answered decades worth of simple questions I'd probably thought about for a few moments, but never bothered to even put into words. For example, I never knew that the sun and the planets were (more or less) following the same trajectory in my visual plane, but now that I can see it, it makes perfect sense. I always wondered why they sometimes appeared close together in the sky (when you can see them). They're all rotating the sun roughly around it's equator, so it would make sense that from Earth, we can see their position along a predictable path. This app grants the viewer a newfound visual perspective of their surroundings. You'll get a better sense of where you are and how things are moving. This app is fantastic!Show lessPmannion
Superb
Great app highly worth having on you iPad it's great being able to play with it indoorskiwikimnz
Fantastic
Ever since I loaded this on my l Pad mini I have not stopped telling people about it.Tritorun
