GoSkyWatch Planetarium Reviews

by Moofer

Please stop popping up tips and marketing crap when I launch GoSkyWatchPlanetarium . It's a paid app. Act like it. It would also be nice if it would remember the last Messier object I looked up so I don't have to keep looking it up. Leave me where I left off. And where's the NGC catalog already?

Years later, still no expanded catalogs.

Still-STILL years later and no expanded catalogs.

by Mundo Is Disappointed

Started off good, but having north always out of calibration kind of ruins GoSkyWatchPlanetarium for me.

Even with a follow up from GoSoftWorks GoSkyWatchPlanetarium still disappoints. Thanks for your canned response. Hopefully that is enough to cover up other unhappy customers. I would hate for your reputation to be damaged by your poor product performance.

by Acmorganfield

So far I love GoSkyWatchPlanetarium and have used it to spot the NEOWISE comet. The only thing I can think of that would make GoSkyWatchPlanetarium better is camera AR. That way you could see exactly where the star, comet, etc. is in the sky.

by Marymeek

Fantastic!!! Best program of its kind that I have found. The more I use it the more I discover things that it is capable of doing. (Like tracing out the sun Analemma as a function of time.) I input my own location with a high degree of accuracy and find extremely good accuracy in everything else that it calculates. I find the accuracy of the program to be Impressive. The display is very realistic as to the relative brightness of the stars and constellations, just the way you see them. I feel you are to be congratulated for creating such a versatile program. Being able to choose between ordinary time, the mean solar day or sidereal days is very useful. In fact, that is what allows you to see the Analemma traced out over the course of a year with a time function of your choosing with a simple flick of your finger.

by HistoryDrinker

A great app where I couldn’t understand much where to locate the stars until this came along. It’s so much fun to learn the visual way in a third dimension view! The hardest to find was a dim North Star, now I know where it is! Go for the stars!

by Curious Patrick

GoSkyWatchPlanetarium is a joy to learn. It’s intuitive enough that I figured much of it out just by trying, and it did not seem like I had to struggle much. It’s well designed, very responsive, and has all kinds of useful information. On cloudy nights when the telescope isn’t an option I simply “virtually stargaze” with GoSkyWatchPlanetarium.

For someone just starting out this is a perfect way to begin to learn about astronomy. I downloaded GoSkyWatchPlanetarium to help my family point a telescope at the night sky for the first time. After about an hour I was able to discover when and where the stars (and planets) rise and set, and I used this information to successfully point the telescope using a compass heading and degrees of inclination. Both the compass and the level (for degrees of inclination) are available on a smartphone.

If you are at all curious about the cosmos, download GoSkyWatchPlanetarium!

by PapLondon2019

This thing will point out about everything up there I can’t go over board they might start charging for every thing it gives you

by Mcsandberg

This has great depth of information and the live tracking is simply amazing. The only flaw I’ve found is that it’s very modal. Once it’s tracking, it will no longer “go to” an object. It will only put arrows around it.

by Cschwarzer

Very well implemented and smooth. Has a ton of options for customization and shifting constellations future/past.

I was afraid that the light from the phone would kill my night vision but GoSkyWatchPlanetarium has a night mode that is surprisingly dim.

by Stvnbl1

GoSkyWatchPlanetarium has brought me and my kids a new outlook at the stars and planets that surround us... it has gotten us so interested that we recently bought a telescope!! And GoSkyWatchPlanetarium makes it star gazing a breeze, enjoyable and exciting!!

by LTZ_Cruze

Easy to use very intuitive. It's with me by my side while observing. It's a good talking point with friends that are with me. No problem recommending this to others.

by VicViBa

I have had GoSkyWatchPlanetarium for many years and until today I still believe is one of the most awesome apps, as not just feeds my passion about the cosmos . But as well allows me to share it with my kids and other Cosmic lovers friends

by Jmann734

Super dank astronomy app. Seriously, very well done here guys and gals. Great for beginners and experts alike with a fun user interface that allows you to view, identify and interact with what you are seeing in the skies above or take control of the global star map and give yourself an education amongst the vast wonders of the universe of stars! Superb ole chap... simply superb, I say!

by Richard In Texas

I’ve had GoSkyWatchPlanetarium more than five years and I can’t recommend it enough. Easily locate planets, stars, constellations, and galaxies. Simple, clear elegant with easy to see info on distance, light years, and apparent plus actual luminosity. Worth the $$!!

by LagoonSailor

GoSkyWatchPlanetarium is totally outstanding when it comes to identifying celestial bodies in the solar system and beyond!!
45 years ago I was a navigator and a naval aviator flying patrol aircraft over water in the Pacific. We were well outside of radar range of land and depended solely on celestial navigation for position and speed information. In school we had to identify and locate 400 navigational stars. The grade was 4.0 or fail, you had to know every single one.
As I do my daily walk before sunrise I still see many of the old friends and constellations shining brightly over the walk path.

- Max Branscomb -
- San Mateo, CA. -

by Phil38372

I've used GoSkyWatchPlanetarium for years now! No problems with the iOS 10.3.2. I have shown nearly all my friends GoSkyWatchPlanetarium. Yea its a high dollar app! But for me to be able to set my telescope up and quickly go to what I want. That's amazing!! All the children I let look at it love it. When I get my telescope on the area they go WILD!!

by Kwestionator

Having been fascinated with night sky observations forever, I find this the perfect companion app. If your interest is mythology and constellations, they’ve included a link to background info on each. Star magnitude, clusters, planets are all a setting and finger click away to enhance your night sky experience. Love GoSkyWatchPlanetarium!!

by EricTB

Love GoSkyWatchPlanetarium. Been using it for years and have turned many others on to it as well. I use it to see what planets are visible, and to learn constellations and stars. I also dig the feature to move scroll through dates and times to see what will be visible on certain days and times. GoSkyWatchPlanetarium is my side kick.

by Überūser

My original reason for my wife to upgrade to a smartphone was so she could get GoSkyWatchPlanetarium- she loves it, I enjoy it.

One can instantly easily adjust a slider to change how many stars are displayed to match your weather or city light pollution conditions. GoSkyWatchPlanetarium is further perfected by the ability to pull up a star's info on wikipedia.

by Spinyriptide

I love it. I play with the controls all the time, spin it through time, watch the constellations circle with the seasons and time of day, follow the Milky Way, learn a lot about the motions of the sky and Earth. And of course all that info about celestial bodies. Amazing filtering and modes. It's just fascinating and well worth the upgrade to track comets.

Has a red light mode, but kinda impractical unless the whole device is in night mode using Apple accessibility dimming. Not practical in a Dark Sky park where only red lights are allowed after dark.

I hold this up to the sky outside at home, and I'm fine. I wish the center ID hotspot was MOVEABLE -- that would be a huge UX improvement. I strain to rotate an ipad with screen rotation on trying to train things into the center for the audio and visual identification.

I wish the user view was more configurable so I can rest this on a table as if I were looking up at the sky.

And better saved settings.

Love it.

by Bangsmith

This is almost perfect, but I do have some minor complaints. It occasionally freezes when I open the menu, and no moons are available, except for our own. It is still worth the download, however.

by Redrock4x4

I use GoSkyWatchPlanetarium every time Head to the desert. Sitting by the campfire and looking at the stars, it never fails someone will ask what star is that?
GoSkyWatchPlanetarium has them all and stunning photos of the stars, planets, and amazing galaxies.