Top 15 SkyMap Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

SkyMap provides interactive sky maps for any time, viewpoint and location on Earth. It shows the different names, coordinates, magnitude, astronomical rise and set times plus additional information for over 110000 stars, messier objects, planets, sun and moon.

SkyMap has a full set of features in order to help both casual stargazers and amateur astronomers to explore and locate the objects in the sky:
- interactive zoom (dimmer stars are displayed based on the zoom level)
- night mode (preserves the eye adaptation to dark during stargazing sessions)
- gesture support (drag the sky map, pinch or double tap to zoom, tap to get sky object information, etc)
- telrad circles
- constellations, stars, deep space objects, planets, sun and moon informations
- autocomplete search function
- fast star data loading and initialization
- various map customizations and settings
- map animations
- map support for portrait and landscape orientations
SkyMap can be used as an educational software to learn the constellations and objects in the sky, to follow the movements of planets and other sky objects during the time (day or night), to find out the position of sun, planets and stars at specific moments of time between 1900 and 2100 (for example when you were born).
The trial version is fully functional but shows ads and limits a few settings. Please buy the full version in order to support the future development, unlock all settings and get the application without ads.
More features will be added during the future application upgrades and they will be available at no additional cost to the people who buy this application now. For example, we’ll try to add more stars, improved graphics, point the phone to the sky (when compass API becomes available). ...

1. StarMap 3D

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2. Aciqra

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