SkySafari 6 is a powerful planetarium that puts the universe at your fingertips, and is incredibly easy to use! Quickly locate planets, constellations, satellites, and millions of stars and deep sky objects. Discover why SkySafari 6 is your perfect stargazing companion at home or under the night sky. Here's what's new in version 6: 1) Complete support for MacOS. We got you covered and release regular updates. 2) Clouds and Astronomy. Two words that rarely go together. Rewritten from the ground up, SkySafari 6 will (optionally) back up all your settings files and make it easily accessible to multiple devices as well as from our new web interface, LiveSky.com. 3) Redesigned look and feel with a dark theme interface. 4) Configurable font sizes 5) Better control of magnitude limits 6) Improved databases 7) Better updating of Comets and Asteroids (more recent data) 8) Better Moon display when zoomed out If you haven't used SkySafari 6 before, here's what you can do with it: • SkySafari will find stars, constellations, planets, and more! The star chart updates automatically in real time for the ultimate stargazing experience. • See an eclipse now, in the past or in the future! Simulate the night sky from anywhere on Earth many years in the past or in the future! Animate meteor showers, comet approaches, transits, conjunctions, and other celestial events with SkySafari’s Time Flow. • Locate the Sun, Moon, or Mars from our extensive database and track the arrow to be directed to their exact locations in the sky before you. See spectacular views of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and other planets! • Learn about the history, mythology, and science of heavens! Browse from hundreds of object descriptions, astronomical photographs, and NASA spacecraft images in SkySafari. Explore tons of NASA Space Missions! Stay up-to-date with SkyWeek, for all major sky events every day – miss nothing! • 120,000 stars; over 200 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies; all major planets and moons, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites including the International Space Station (ISS). • Animated meteor showers with complete viewing information & spectacular graphics. • Orbit Mode – Leave the Earth’s surface behind, and fly like a NASA space probe through the solar system. Requires in-app purchase. • Night Vision – Preserves your eyesight after dark. • Apple Maps Integration – Choose your location from a built-in Maps view. • Horizon Panoramas – choose from beautiful built-in vistas, or customize your own! • Much more! For even more features, and telescope control check out SkySafari 6 Plus and SkySafari 6 Pro!
Poor data base search functiojn
This app is worthless - has very limited search function for deep sky objects. Do not recommend
Wonderful App for the Amature
I'm a complete neophyte here. I'm writing a book which references the sky and I was looking for this app as a reference. This app has the necessary controls to model the sky from anywhere on the planet. It default to a monotonous ambient sound (Pluto) which can be flipped OFF via controls which is very fortunate. I'm sure this is a great stepping stone to the more-powerful apps.
SkySafari6
Needs an instruction manual... I have no idea how it works and what it can do...
Unbelievable
LOVE IT! I’ve been looking for ages trying to find an app that would allow me to know what I was looking at in the night sky from my location. I’m just an amateur enthusiast who likes to know the stars, planets and galaxies. This app if beautiful! It has everything I could want. I will be buying the Orbit add-on soon. What a blast!!
ok night sky is better
for all reading this review , I would say that the night sky is better because of its much more attractive features but skysafari is also fine . Skysafari needs improvment 🤨
update
So hey guys i think we need an update on this website so that we can see out of our galaxy to different glaxyz. And it should be live.
Good App
Thanks for the app! It helps me learn bout space and planets etc! So I'll rate this a 5-star rating! Thanks for the app!
- Fixes label drawing on non-retina displays.
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