Being the avid space/ alien lover that I am, I found this really cool app for the android that allows you to use your phone as a telescope and navigate across the solar system. It’s called the SkEye Astronomy app! If you have a telescope, just attach your phone to the OTA and you pretty much have your own hand held guide!
It has some pretty cool features including:
• Time machine : Jump to any date in past or future
• Real time Alt-Azimuth and Equatorial coordinates
• Messier objects
• mini-NGC catalog (subset of ~180 bright objects)
• Solar system objects including all 8 planets and the 4 Galilean moons
• Night Mode
• Search, with a guiding arrow
• Alt-Azimuth, Equatorial grid
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