GoSkyWatch Planetarium

🇺🇸 United States
GoSoftWorks Development Co.  | 
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App Rating
4.8
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Votes
20.88K
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App Age
17y 5m
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Last Update
Aug 09, 2020

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Rating
4.79
4.55
+5%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
20.8K
225.6K
-91%
App Age
17y 5m
8y 9m
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Price
$4
$1
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In-app Purchases Price
$0
$44
Update Frequency
1952d
65d
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Title Length
22
24
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Subtitle Length
24
27
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Description Length
3 529
2 594
+36%
Number of Screenshots
510
1492
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Size
0MB
153MB

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GoSkyWatch Planetarium
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Go Explore the Night Sky
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Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, comets, constellations, galaxies and more by simply pointing to the sky. Your personal telescope to the wonders in the night sky. Go outside and explore with GoSkyWatch Planetarium. ***** As seen in Apple's iPad 2 event ***** Featured on ABC's "The View" ***** Featured in "Wired" magazine No in-app purchases! One download for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. We don't think you should pay twice for the same app on a bigger screen. --- What People Are Saying "Powerful and easy to use, with excellent animation and the widest zoom range." — D.Schroeder, University professor "GoSkyWatch Planetarium should not be missed regardless of whether you are a casual or hard-core fan of astronomy." — AppAdvice "I have more than 10 astronomy apps on my iPhone and this is by far the best. Everything I need and easy to use." — Pat, iTunes reviewer --- What makes GoSkyWatch different to other apps? • Easy to use — No buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring. • Designed specially for efficient outdoor use. • Touch free identification — Information pops up on screen as you move. Great for those cold nights with gloves on! • Popup images — No need to keep zooming in and out just to see what is out there. • Full 180 degree display — See at a glance what is in the sky and where without having to pan around. • Don't need to hold level — Displays the sky view and information at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait. • Gyroscope compass auto calibration — No need to calibrate the gyroscope. Advanced adaptive algorithms for smooth and accurate positioning. • Planets shown with relative brightness to stars — No oversized graphics that prevent you from distinguishing a planet from surrounding stars. • Unique target identification — Touch drag scheme for greatest accuracy since your finger doesn't hide what you are trying to identify. • Minimal on screen text — Stars and planets easier to identify since they are not covered by text. Features: Identify • On screen object name, brightness and distance • Contains all stars visible to the naked eye • Light adjustment for viewing conditions • Red light mode for night vision • Touchless navigation even for the iPod touch without a compass. Find • Looking for a planet, star, comet, constellation or galaxy? Just use the finder and let the arrow guide the way • Search stars and DSOs sorted by name, distance or magnitude • Moon phase calendar • Sun rise/set times Explore • Day, sidereal and time lapse animation • Over 200 images of planets and deep sky objects • Messier and Caldwell catalogs with images • Actual image taken of the Milky Way • Below horizon display • Look back in time with the birthday star search. Find out how old you were for the star light seen. Learn • Constellation images, boundaries and patterns • Solar system, star, comet, DSO, constellation Wikipedia • Ian Ridpath's constellation StarTales • Interactive graphical ephemeris • Planet, star, constellation and DSO ephemeris data More • High performance graphics • Easy setup using auto location or built in city list • Location favorites * No internet connection required. Internet optionally used for auto location, viewing Wikipedia information and StarTales. Many more enhancements to come as free updates. Free International Space Station real time tracking and viewing opportunities available with the companion GoISSWatch app.}
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Rating
4.8
20 875 voters

Some Latest Reviews

katmac27
19 Oct, 2025
2
I have used this app for years. The last year or so the compass doesn’t work correctly. It’s showing E when pointing to the SW on my iPhone. I’ve tried the tips, precise location and calibration with the figure 8 pattern. Nothing has worked. Perhaps someone can give me some advice as I’ve always loved this app. Thank you.
Dackelfranz
27 Aug, 2025
2
Seit einiger Zeit erscheinen die Planeten und Sternbilder um gut 45 Grad versetzt auf dem Display
Katklutz
06 Mar, 2025
5
My all time fav sky map!! Easy and amazingly accurate!
skysky3
16 Feb, 2025
5
I have had this app for years and nothing works better for finding out which star I’m looking at whether it’s a planet, star, or an airplane. There are also many other great features, the sun tracking I use to plan my garden. There’s also a setting labeled “Pluto is a planet” 1000/10
laylatgh
28 Jan, 2025
3
For an app that you have to pay for, it sure is buggy. I’ve never gotten this app to be accurate or smooth. It’s user friendly and pretty but that’s about it
Tn2036
25 Jan, 2025
5
Discovered this years ago and it’s still our favorite for stargazing and identifying celestial bodies. Clean, tidy, easy to use interface. Love it.
mark_muldoon
14 Jan, 2025
5
One of the first apps I installed when I got my first iPhone, and still use regularly. No fancy VR nonsense, just tells you what star that is. Still works on iOS 18 and I hope it always works. The other apps are not as functional.
dgetzin
28 Sep, 2024
3
This app really is elegant and easy to use. The only thing that keeps it from 5 out of 5 is the slippery clunkyness of the time and location interface. Fix that and PERHAPS icing on the cake add a geo specific horizon (solar parallax and proper motion drift? I don’t know) - THeN you have something to build another Stonehenge with! All the same - you want to be able to “see” the path of the sun under the earth at night? The realm of Osiris made “real”? There’s this app for that. Totally enjoyable and useful ecliptic positions.
Sempertales
28 Sep, 2024
1
Mit dem neuen IPad 11 keine Aktivierung des Bewegungssensors . Bis dato keine Antwort des Entwicklers

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.78
Voted: 20.88K
App Store Link:
Price: 3.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Navigation, Education
Size: -
App Age: 17 years 5 months
Release Date: Jul 12, 2008
Last Update: Aug 09, 2020
Version: 9.4
Version history
9.4
Aug 09, 2020
- Added tap to expend telescope view - Added tap compass button to toggle motion control - Updated icons - Fade out home bar - Fix to manual location coordinate entry - iOS Updates
9.3
Jul 19, 2020
Version history