Sky Master for iOS

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Sky Master is a full-featured planetarium application that offers an incredible rendering of the sky based on your location on Earth. Complete 360...
Last updated on April 23, 2015
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By iCoder

Sky Master is a full-featured planetarium application that offers an incredible rendering of the sky based on your location on Earth. Complete 360...

Sky Master is a full-featured planetarium application that offers an incredible rendering of the sky based on your location on Earth. Complete 360 degree view of the sky with zoom and pan capabilities, time manipulation features and detailed information on planets, stars, constellations and galaxies. Sky Master also includes a solar system simulator to view planet's positions relative to each other at any point in the past or future.If you've ever gazed up and the sky and wondered what's out there then this app is for you. Ideal novices and pros, Sky Master sports an easy to use all touch interface that is intuitive and makes exploring the sky more fun and educational than ever before. Key Features:- View the entire night and day sky as viewed from anywhere on Earth with detailed information about planets, stars, constellations and galaxies.- Use the time feature to fast-forward or rewind time to see what the sky would look like at any date and time. Watch animations of the stars and planets in motion with time exaggerated time feature which allows you to speed up movements millions of times for practical viewing. Lock-on to an object by tapping it and follow it through time. - Uses GPS to determine your location or you can enter other co-ordinates manually.- Use the solar system simulator to view planet's positions relative to each other at any point in the past or future.- Pan 360 degrees and zoom in on an area of interest as viewed from any point on earth. Sky Master also allows you to pan below the horizon to see objects out of your line of sight. - Search for celestial objects by name- Setting panel gives you the ability to adjustable star luminosity, add/remove labels for planets and constellations, activate the star target feature (requires you to be fully zoomed in) which gives the azimuth and angular altitude of any point in the sky and allows you to activate observer mode which tints the entire screen in a shade of red as to preserve your night vision for real-time star viewing (without this mode your eyes would have to constantly adjust from the bright iPhone screen to the dark night sky) - Includes additional imagery and information on well over 100 popular astronomy targets including clusters, galaxies and other celestial formations. Just touch the marked points in the sky and press the info button for more details on the object.At only $2.99, Sky Master offers incredible value and puts millennia worth of collective data about the heavens at your fingertips.