United StatesCelestron® SkyPortal™
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Celestron’s newest planetarium app is an astronomy suite that redefines how you experience the night sky. Explore the Solar System, 120,000 stars, over 200 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites—including the ISS. SkyPortal includes everything you need to experience the night sky in an exciting new way. When connected to a compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, you can automatically point the telescope to any object in the database and view it with great detail.
Planetarium Features
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Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.
Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.
Computerized Telescope Control
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Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.
SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.
SkyPortal has localization support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
Where are all the deep sky objects? How am I supposed to get the telescope to go to a galaxy or nebula if the app does not display where any of galaxies or nebula are ( with the exception of the orion nebula and a couple others) ? No matter what I do with the deep sky settings. there are no deep sky objects that I can point to...in the sky. This makes zero sense.
connects then drops wifi connection all the time, good when it works but the connection issue needs sorting asap as it becomes very frustrating having to re align again and again, it jst doesnt seem to work
I love identifying the planets with this.
EXCELLENT; I love it.!!!
Simple and Awesome! I love it!
It is accurate... Works great I use it alot now on the nights I stargaze with my two Celestron scopes
Such a painful experience for a telescope that costs so much to have an app that regularly crashes, regularly drops finger touches (so your telescope just carries on driving into an inverted position). Makes the Celestron near impossible to use. I am extremely frustrated and wish the company would invest in making this a great experience instead of leaving me wondering if I'd made an expensive mistake.
Fixed startup crash affecting some users.
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