SkEye | Astronomy

I have been using this app for years at a time. It is one of the, if not the best astronomy app I have seen. I finally decided to write a review because I wanted to request a viewing mode that mimicks the real sky by giving it seeing effects and twinkling and abberations. it would give the visual effect of stargazing through an app. It would look incredible. I would love this, and I'm sure many others would. 🌌

If you don't need anything fancy like an app to aim your telescope, this is far and away the best what-is-in-the-night-sky app. And has the best graphics — love the defraction spikes & colors that help stars stand out from other objects. I would enjoy images when zoomed in on planets & nebulae, but that's not what SkEye is for. Fantastic customization options. Intuitive UI. And only 15MB. Its only real shortcoming is a strange dearth of moons around outer planets. (Doesn't zoom in far enough?)

Skeye rocks! 5 minutes to convert an Astroscan schmoo into a push-to ball of fun! Hardest part was figuring out how to bungee my phone onto the all-curves Astroscan. Great interface, the right data, easy alignments, if you've had your astro fun limited by difficulty knowing where to aim your scope, Skeye will fix that for you for free!

Excellent app, a learning curve to get the best out of it but for newbies just be patient. IMO the best mobile astronomy app going, very comprehensive and accurate, just calibrate it as a matter of routine. It will advise you if you have odd magnetic field exposure. You can set sensor sensitivity and the red night lighting is great for the dark adapted eye. You can attach your phone to telescope or binoculars and navigation is good to go. Needs a more explicit calibration prompt though.

Handy app and has eased many an anxiety attack whenever my paranoia gets the better of me and I think a meteor is in the sky. One downside is the movement is janky if the phone has a gyro. Sometimes it moves along with you and others it will go in the complete opposite direction. Don't know if this is just down to the phone you're using or the app itself but it can get a bit irritating. Beyond that, well worth the download.

I have been using this app for over 15 years, or possibly even longer, as I can't remember the exact date I first downloaded it, but I still recall the excitement! This app continues to be my go-to tool for stargazing. I have used it on crystal clear winter nights in the Middle East, on foggy and cloudy evenings in the UK, and during freezing but clear winters in Canada. It has always met my expectations. The app is a gem; it’s free and easy to use. The developers have done a fantastic job!

I like this app, it makes it very easy to navigate around the night sky. Being able to adjust the opacity of the graphics is really useful too. One criticism, I'd find the ability to zoom-out further, so you're able to see from the zenith to the horizon (plus a few degrees), without needing to scroll, even more helpful.

Well...Generally speaking—It works; It is Free; It has NO ADS—for any would-be app maker...that's a solid ~4 Stars right there. I don't have a choice to parse out the last star...it's certainly not perfect; again, ...it's free..(?). BUT! Free can always be better! Now, I gave 5 stars—however, in the spirit of 'Free & Better,' allow me to criticize: 1. The Horizon needs to be fixable relative to device/preference. 2. An alt perspective would be useful (Sol top-down for ref?) 3. More Free!

Ok star map. PUSHTO function simply doesn't work. It will barely locate the saved alignment points and won't get within field of view of searched targets. It would work much better if the view axis could be rotated 90° to view along the phone's longitudinal axis, rather than the camera axis. Then, the phone could be aligned in a mount like a finder, with no need for complex alignments that never actually work.

This is an excellent app and one that gets better the more you learn to use it. I am exited by the indirect mode and am looking forward to testing how useful and accurate it is when attached to my telescope. The search option allows you to sort objects by ease of viewing but I do not understand on Stars why Vega is followed by two lower magnitude stars before Arcturus. For alignment I think only 1 Mag stars and Polaris should be listed. Being able to add targets sounds good so I will probably get the pro version,

Got to know quite late about it. But yes, it is quite precise in its work. Only wished it had shown the gross distribution of the planetary structures to give an idea of which direction to start pointing in the begining. I wasn't lucky enough to spot the Neowise, due to cloud cover, but yes target was well acquired! Keep it up, team. Loved it. 💚

Exactly what I was looking for. It lets you either use the phone sensors to target stuff, or (unlike every other app) allows you to scroll manually. The app doesn't ask for any unnecessary permissions (unlike the other 10 I tried today). And most importantly it doesn't open and then demand money before you can see anything (like the top recommended app does).

I ONLY JUST STARTED THE APP AND ITS AWESOME! Just what I wanted!! It would actually be a LOT better if u could add a "search button" where I could search for different stars, planets so I don't need to look for them. Otherwise the app is great! I hope that this is not fake, but I'm sure its not! Thank you VERY much for this AMAZING app! I love astronomy.

Used in past and showed everything just fine. Last few nights wanting to find jupiter and saturn it showed totally wrong directions and I was not able to locate them. Looking at the moon right now but skyeye tells me moon is in a totally wrong spot to where it actually is. Orientations are all wrong. Very disappointed with app now. Totally useless.

Love it. Much better than the other free astronomy app I used to use to go on Sky Safaris. This one is more accurate, doesn't "forget" the compass, has a better visual finder method, and doesn't charge extra to show you comets. This one also works attached to a telescope guide system, but this is a fun one even with a normal scope, binoculars, or even naked eye. Get to know your universe! The name on here includes "Comet NeoWise" but that's just for now I think. The name is SkEye (not SkEye). Note makes of this app, there seems to be a fake with same name on iTunes store, not this one, but same name.

Map spins all over the place. Point phone at a known item and it can be totally in the wrong place. Like behind me even. Adjusted everything in settings but it only gets worse. Don't know if it's the phone ( Google pixel 8) or the app. Either way it's totally unusable...update.. no cover. Also does the same with stellarium and skyview lite. I'm guessing the pixel 8 sucks.... Have gave the app 5 stars as I know it works well elsewhere. The pixel 8 is under a year old. Guess that's the problem.

I've used this so for years but recently.. perhaps because I changed devices..I no longer have the ability to view the sky as I move my phone. I'm not sure how you refer to that feature but for me that was the reason I used the so... now it only serves as a basic non interactive sky map... and as awesome as that is its just not the same level of awesomeness.... please help me fix this issue if it's on my end... thank you

An elegant and reliable astronomy app. One of a very small number of apps that I rate highly enough to rely upon. The breadth of it's functionality offers good support "out in the field" and it's interface is not overly cluttered which is great in low light conditions using night mode.

It takes a bit of practice and patience but it's fantastic once you get it. Hold the phone in your left hand in the center of the screen like pulling back a bow string. Put your pointer finger of right hand in the middle of your other two fingers, perpendicularly to the phone in every direction. You will soon be 👉 right at your goal ⭐!

terrific. gives RA, Dec, altaz and HA. very useful if you don't use goto