SkyORB
We love SkyORB because it not only offers 3D images of the planets and the stars in the sky, along with comets and asteroids, but it also comes a 'point to sky' feature that allows you to aim your handset towards a star or planet and it'll identify it for you.
- PC Advisor★★★★★
SkyORB features many functions as a 3D real-time representation of the planets position around the sun, the ability to hold your device and point toward a visible star and planet and reveal the name by tracking the GPS position, compass orientation, the elevation from the gyroscope, warn the user when a phenomenon is occurs as a full moon, a planet really visible, which is worth the observation.What you will get with SkyORB
• Fast and lightweight.
• a 3D real-time planetarium with photo-realistic rendering from Mercury to Pluto, Uranus and Saturn and every moons, including deep space exploration up to 50 parsecs.
• a 3D real-time sky rendering, with tracking from compass and gyroscope, see the nebula from Messier and Caldwell classification.
• Comets and satellites positions, with update from the Web for latest entries, including near earth asteroids.
• Weather forecast from current location,
• Ephemeris including next 60 days astronomy events, including peak day of meteors showers, date of planet elongation and opposition.
• Display day/night terminator on a world map,
• Powerful universal search engine: type few letter and find a matching nebula, constellation, place, planets and more.
• Moon phases with dates, including rise and set times,
• Ability to simulate the sky from any place in the world and even from other planet like Mars
• Ability to move fast forward and backward in time,
• Enhanced for latest Android devices,
• Be alerted when a phenomenon (planet at its brightest, opposition, aphelia, full/new moon, eclipse) is occurring with local notifications (can be disabled).
New in SkyORB 2.1
• Now free to try.
• Improved star map rendering, including fisheye projection
• Updated settings page, sub page can be now accessed by swiping left to right, removing the clutter.
• More robust MPC updater.
• Ability to render from the solar system to the milky way.
• Improved 3D engine, updated for latest tablet and devices.
• Improved rise and set time notifications
• Space view reacts with accelerometer, and addressed glitches.
• OpenGL ES 3.0 support.
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Category : Education
Reviews (28)
Doesn't work properly on Galaxy S9+
It's a great app
I can't even play it I hate it
Wow interesting game awesome game i will 5 Star
Lol AdPOKALYPSE and money Greedy app...Premium is cant afford for poor nerds
I can't chose that planets 😶
Love it
Thanks to the developer for some bug fixes-this is an outstanding, scientifically useful application; impressive tool for the astronomer/planetary scientist. There are, however, some problems--at least, on the two phones I've used it on; (LG Volt II, and ZTE Warp7): the icon-style menu is hard to figure out--icons used are not self-descriptive enough. Also, left-right swiping to move the screen (space view, I think) doesn't work. Smoother transitioning during zoom, from solar system to galaxy view, and back, is needed. The stellar neighborhood rendering, during this process, should be cleaner looking (looks like it's in a fog), as should the optional planetarium, or, "all-sky"view. Otherwise, the positions and orbital motions of all solar system objects, as well as the Milky Way galaxy, are accurate and at your fingertips! Eclipses, conjunctions of all objects, from any perspective. You can move the entire Solar system into past and future with smooth continuity. The close-up views of, and from, the asteroid belt, are stunning!
It used to work but they've screwed it up........... I'm deleting this app!
Even though i loved😂😂😂 it when i was expecting good stuff to happen😍😍 i gone in the app it said unfortunately😨😨 skyorb has stopped working😒😒😒 and then i pressed one of the button's it send back to my home screen😱😱 so please can you fix it!!!!!!!!!!!!😈😈😈 yay😊😊😊 you fixed it now thanks😅😅😅
Ever since I downloaded it, my phone freezes and goes back to the home screen. I will uninstall immediately.
I downloaded this app expecting great things as I was recommended it from a friend, however I am disappointed that all u get is a message saying unfortunately skyorb has stopped working. Furthermore, it also breaks my play store app from working returning the same message but for the play store. I then have to clear the cache before the play store starts working again. Please fix this!
I tried to update it,but it said skyorb wasn't responding. It took me back to my home screen.
Was recommended to and said to be great but when I downloaded it and tried to open it it said that 'unfortunately sky orb isn't working' and sends me back to my home screen. Would love to download though if I could open it :-( ;-)
It has some crashing issue on my note 4 when it gos to the main screen theres some flickering then the app shuts down i hope you can fix it i will buy the premium version soon it really is a fantastic app it what ive been looking for for a long time thanks guys
Whats the point we install an app tjat can't even been open
Stopped working, unable to open. Error: Download failed because the resources could not be found.
Indescribable how slow and unresponsive this app is. Interface is boring, does not even meet up to Google sky map and I thought that was already barebones.
The keyboard wouldnt stay on long enough to type in what i wanted to find.
I've been using this app for a while now and absolutely love it! . Lovely 3d rendering and plenty of information that keeps you occupied for hours. Accurate and easy to use. Great job. 😊
Best 3d astronomy app so far!!!
i have tried to recover the purchase 3 times, this developer spends too much time on security of this app. and not the quality
My galaxy note II force continuously the app closing.
Please add more animation to. The sun and when zooming in, make the little stars actually look like stars passing by. Thanks though!
After the last update the app say's "please be patient" and after a while the app closes without any warning grrrrrrr
Would not open. Sg4
Running this on a Nexus 5 and it's choppy. UI is horrid and cryptic. Not a good app at all.
Its fun and excuiting but its really jumpy and hard to tell whats happening. That's the only thing wrong with it.:-P