Want to catch a glimpse of the next comet that blazes by? Don't want to miss the next lunar eclipse? Then Mobile Observatory is your must-have app. It's the perfect tool for amateur astronomers to serious star gazers.
Out-of-this-world features
Mobile Observatory lets you reach into the sky and explore straight from your smartphone. With a live zoomable map of the sky right at your fingertips, this app can tell what object you're looking at: just point your smartphone to receive detailed information. As the most complete astronomy app on the Android market, Mobile Observatory comes bursting with information on stars, planets, meteor showers, comets, asteroids, and lunar and solar eclipses, as well as an interactive top-down view of the solar system and an ephemeris of each and every object it knows about in the sky.
Screenshot of Mobile Observatory in use. Image via zima.co.
Heighten your sky-gazing experience with the zoomable sky map that can bring the sky's wonders to you. Easily explore stars, planets, asteroids, and more, both above and below the horizon. You'll have access to their rise, set, and transit times so you'll know when to seek them out, along with their altitudes, so you'll know where to find them (with help of the app's arrows to direct you). You can look up dates of conjunctions between any object with the planets or moon, and also view them in 3-D.
Mobile Observatory locating Saturn. Image via zima.co.
As if that's not enough, this app also includes a calendar with descriptions of celestial events you wouldn't want to miss. If you have a busy schedule, you can post events to your smartphone's calendar so you don't forget. With Mobile Observatory, you can spend hours discovering the many wonders of our solar system.
Other Details
Mobile Observatory is available for both Android phones and tablets. Depending on your version of the app, features may vary.
COST: $4.49
Download the Mobile Observatory app on the Google Play market.
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