Stellarium on iPhones

[MrsR]

Am I correct in thinking you cannot download Stellarium on an iPhone ? I looked at the site but just double checking incase I am missing something glaringly obvious.

Thanks.

[StevieDvd]

You get it from Itunes App Store, it's on iphone and ipad.

[Reni]

What about Android?

[MrsR]

Brilliant thanks Stevie

[Dave Dubya]

What about Android?

No, not yet. Apparently something to do with the Android app SDK not being suitable for a straight conversion from whatever Stellarium is written in.

[pgrace]

Just got Stellarium on my PC, iPhone and iPad. Brilliant piece of software!

[matt a]

In response to the android apps, Google sky map (FREE) is brilliant, not as detailed as stellarium, but the app is much smaller . I love it, its brilliant, although it's a tad off sometimes.

[Reni]

OK, I'll check it out. I am currently using SkEye, which is not bad but it's not too good either.

[UnderTheRain]

Ref Android, stellarium is written is C where as the Android sdk is Java and I hear a port is in progress as we speak. When using things like google sky map you must remeber to calibrate your magnometer in your device first and it helps to turn on your gps.

There are loads of apps for android -

Google sky map

Star chart £2 (or free if you have a samsung device star chart solar)

Skeye + plugins like meteor panel

Then theres loads of useful stuff like

Astro panel

Polar finder

Flightradar24

Satellite AR

Gps Test

Gps Status

Plus many many more

[AustinStargazer]

The app is for iPhone and it's free but it's not free for iPad but for iPad there's an alternative called GoSkyWatchPlanetarium And I have the free version of that

[Jiggy 67]

To be honest I find Stellarium really slow and unresponsive on my I phone, nothing like the pc version, there are better aps out there

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[MrsR]

GoSkyWatch I have sound since posting this to be a lot more responsive than Stellarium and have since purchased the full GoSkyWatch app

[cathalferris]

The latest release of the Stellarium iPhone app has a minimum requirement of iOS 5 so I'm not able to install it yet. I'm a great believer in having access to what I own so I can't upgrade the OS till I know that the jailbreak works properly on iOS 5.

It's a pity that the iOS 5 requirement was put in place but none of the new features in Stellarium appear to actually need what is new in iOS 5. When I get the time and I'm sure the jailbreak works - I'll upgrade to 5 and i'll be able to upgrade Stellarium at that point.

[paul schofield]

I have Stellarium on iphone, and to be honest I dont think much of it. Totally better on my p.c.

[AstroMum]

If you don't mind paying a couple of quid, the basic version of SkySafari 3 is available on Android (and iOS).

Southern Stars SkySafari for Android

I'm using the Plus version on iPhone and iPad, but the "lite" version is still very good. I've tried GoSkyWatch and Stellarium and didn't think they were as good.

[umadog]

Me too: stellarium on iOS isn't up to much. Never use it. Sky Safari is much better.