SkyView Overview
What is SkyView? The app is called Satellite Safari and it is developed by the makers of the award-winning SkyView app. It is a satellite spotting app that allows users to discover over 20,000 satellites day or night. Users can point their iPhone at the sky to identify satellites passing overhead at their location. The app also allows users to pan around Earth to discover new satellites and zoom-in for a beautiful 3D close-up view.
Features
- Simple: Point your iPhone at the sky to identify satellites passing overhead at your location.
- Interactive: Pan around Earth to discover new satellites and zoom-in for a beautiful 3D close-up view.
- Customizable: Build a list of your favorite satellites and filter other satellites from your view.
- Sighting reminders: Quickly schedule reminders to notify you when a visible satellite will be in the sky above your location.
- Night friendly: Preserve your night vision with two easy-access night modes (red or green filters).
- Social: Capture and share beautiful images with friends and family on social networks.
- Space Junk: Uncover thousands of rocket bodies and other space debris that orbit Earth.
- Mobile: Does not require a data signal or GPS to function, take it anywhere.
- Comprehensive: Includes 20,000 satellites with thousands of facts, descriptions, tidbits, and satellite images.
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Product Details and Description of
From the makers of the award winning this app® app comes a stunning new way to discover over 20,000 satellites day or night. Satellite spotting is now for everyone. Just point your iPhone at the sky to identify the International Space Station, Hubble, GPS satellites, and thousands more as they soar above your location. Discover new and interesting satellites in Earth mode. Pan around the Earth, touch satellites over distant countries, zoom-in for a close-up view, and take wonderful photos to share with friends. Features: • Simple: Point your iPhone at the sky to identify satellites passing overhead at your location. • Interactive: Pan around Earth to discover new satellites and zoom-in for a beautiful 3D close-up view. • Customizable: Build a list of your favorite satellites and filter other satellites from your view. • Sighting reminders: Quickly schedule reminders to notify you when a visible satellite will be in the sky above your location. • Night friendly: Preserve your night vision with two easy-access night modes (red or green filters). • Social: Capture and share beautiful images with friends and family on social networks. • Space Junk: Uncover thousands of rocket bodies and other space debris that orbit Earth. • Mobile: Does not require a data signal or GPS to function, take it anywhere. • Comprehensive: Includes 20,000 satellites with thousands of facts, descriptions, tidbits, and satellite images.
Top Reviews
By MtDewBob
Sky View
This is about the coolest app I've seen so far. I never knew you could see a satellites or space junk fly overhead with just your naked eye. I've made this somewhat of a hobby, on clear nights to go outside and see just how many satellites or space junk I can find. I think the neighbors think I'm whacked at this point be I sit in the yard looking up at the night sky with smartphone in hand. I've always been interested in science so this is just one more way of expanding that interest. To see a piece of space junk fly overhead moving at 2000 mph and 350 miles up just trips me out. The app gives you so much detail and information on what you're viewing and a detail cartoon picture of the object, makes it well worth the $5 spent.
By BP407
Absolutely Fantastic App!
Love this app, very well done. Have been looking for an app like this for a while and finally found a winner. A few suggestions for future versions. 1. Allow viewing of sub-categories (ie: Communications->Iridium to just view the Iridium Satellites). 2. Put a button to re-spin the globe like at startup. 3. Allow spinning the globe on the earth's axis (lock in axis in place). 4. Lighten the dark sky areas, very difficult to see most of the world other than what's lit up. An alternate would be to have a switch to turn it to daytime worldwide. I hope you'll consider these suggestions to make your fantastic app even better. Totally love it! Very well done.
By TannerScottMartin
I cannot believe my eyes!
This app is one of those apps that is just amazing and mind blowing. From literally over 20k satellites to all the different ways you can search, find, and see satellites EASILY I just don't know why this isn't #1 app. The producers of this app deserve every award possible. I love all the facts, and classifications for EACH satellite! But probably my favorite part is all the satellites I have found with this app. Last night I found a rocketbody. Not just one but SEVERAl! Also, the 3D picture is amazing. I dont know how to thank you more!
