SkyPortal
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About SkyPortal
Celestron® SkyPortal™
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Celestron’s newest planetarium app is an astronomy suite that redefines how you experience the night sky. Explore the Solar System, 120,000 stars, over 200 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites—including the ISS. SkyPortal includes everything you need to experience the night sky in an exciting new way. When connected to a compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, you can automatically point the telescope to any object in the database and view it with great detail.
Planetarium Features
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Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.
Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.
Computerized Telescope Control
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Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.
SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.
(Feb 12, 2016) A faster, more reliable server is now servicing the requests for extra data after downloading the new update.
Keywords
Celestron, Astronomy, Evolution, NexStar, Planetarium, Education, SkyQ, Telescope
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Celestron’s newest planetarium app is an astronomy suite that redefines how you experience the night sky. Explore the Solar System, 120,000 stars, over 200 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites—including the ISS. SkyPortal includes everything you need to experience the night sky in an exciting new way. When connected to a compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, you can automatically point the telescope to any object in the database and view it with great detail.
Planetarium Features
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Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.
Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.
Computerized Telescope Control
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Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.
SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.
(Feb 12, 2016) A faster, more reliable server is now servicing the requests for extra data after downloading the new update.
Keywords
Celestron, Astronomy, Evolution, NexStar, Planetarium, Education, SkyQ, Telescope
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Version 2.1.2.0
* Fixed a couple bugs involving the time
Version 2.1.1.0
* Added German language support (constellation and star names are still displayed in English for this build).
* Fixed StarSense alignment bug when used with the CGX mount.
* Fixed crash that could happen when showing Object Info for some satellites.
* Other minor stability and functionality improvements.
Version 2.0.1.4
* Fixes critical bug with StarSense on CGX
* Support for CGX and AstroFi telescopes
Version 2.1.2.0
* Fixed a couple bugs involving the time
Version 2.1.1.0
* Added German language support (constellation and star names are still displayed in English for this build).
* Fixed StarSense alignment bug when used with the CGX mount.
* Fixed crash that could happen when showing Object Info for some satellites.
* Other minor stability and functionality improvements.
Version 2.0.1.4
* Fixes critical bug with StarSense on CGX
* Support for CGX and AstroFi telescopes
Version update SkyPortal was updated to version 2.2.3.0
More downloads SkyPortal reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
More downloads SkyPortal reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
Version update SkyPortal was updated to version 1.5.6
What are users saying about SkyPortal
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Best Free Astronomy app you can find. Awesome!!!
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Very knowledgeable
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Me gusto mucho.
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Nice
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Great App, works beautifully. Would have scored 5 stars EXCEPT, Im in the southern hemisphere. I would prefer to see East on my right and West on my left. For a global app that looks at the night sky, I would have thought the option of Nothern/Southern hemisphere would have been a must. Please consider the other half of the planet
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Please add sort and display options in common object list as I sort by magnitude to see the brighter objects an also if you can toggle display on and off so each category can be displayed in the planetarium.
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I like this app lots though I can't understand why the sky rotates around the zenith when it should rotate around Polaris in the north.
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This app is loaded with valuable scientific data on celestial objects a strong contrast to the mediocre graphics used in the apps presentation.
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Easy to use and functional with an Celesrron Goto scope
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WiFi caperbilities and aligning...great
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I cant find the Compass
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It is crashing a lot. Within minutes of having it open, everything just vanishes and closes. Samsung Galaxy Note 3
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I'm unable to configure my wifi module for network access, not direct.
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Sky Portal and Skyview are my favorite apps.No other apps even come close.
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Awesome app, great for helping find many DSO's with information on them as well !
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Fantastic app. Just one recommendation... Can we have a setting to keep screen on when the app is being used.
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Best yet!
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Great app!
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nice app ....i love it
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Poop
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sucked up all my data just to download and once it got to 100% I went back to google play to open because no short cut was made but then I got there it said install now why would it download then say install again? I installed it again and now I have no data but cool app.
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This actually works really well. The graphics are nice, the constellations look accurate, it's just simple and educational. 5 stars.
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Great even runs on my old Kobo Arc7 e-reader tab
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App worth Billion stars rating, 5 stars is insulting. Avinash. 15th Feb 2017. 7pm.
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Awesome! Great educational tool and lots of fun.
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It is not at all working.. It always comes it has stopped
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Impressive, good capability, well done.
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It's not working on the night of a comet. The moon is not where it shows and it's not adjusting
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It best......
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Its ok
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Love this app! On it many times throughout the day. Enjoy the audio explanations and detailed descriptions but wow it crashes within minutes every single time I'm on it. It's very frustrating. So I close it out and start over constantly. I've uninstalled and reinstalled but still does it. Still love it.. but feel it shouldn't have these issues with how well made this app is.
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That's as far as I can get. I can see the startup screen, then the screen turns black and after a couple of seconds, I get this error message. Nothing else. Installation on my Samsung Note 10 (Android 4.3) without errors. Tried it 4 times! Very very annoying...
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Love the "audio" button when viewing detailed information on many celestial objects in the apps catalog. Not five stars due to the app freezing when I am using it with my telescope - you have to restart and realign the scope - :-(
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Amazing application and works well on my phone. However I purchased an Android tablet specifically for this app but despite being fully compatible always crashes on startup. Very disappointing.
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Big fan of this app, has helped me a lot with my nexstar 5SE. I love the audio and library features!
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Works very good and is accurate. Use as a handy sky chart, installed on my Samsung S6. Will soon install on my S7.
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My Most Favourite App ...Thank you Celestron..I am a proud owner of Power seeker Newtonian Reflector Telescope..Now I love to have an auto_aligning one...Yes ..it's a Dream..!
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Loads of information in this app. Problems experienced by others may be down to not keeping handset ir StarSense software up to date.
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This works so well with the Evolution mount. I really couldn't be happier!
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Great app but 80% of the time I can't connect to my telescope. Always gives me an error message.