![]() ![]() ![]() The app works on Android phones running Android version 2.1 or higher, which includes 95% of Android phones. With a "night mode" option, the app is ideally set up to be an on-site observing tool for astronomy enthusiasts. It allows users to zoom in and out on the skymap, set a location, pan around your local sky, and go to different times and dates. "We designed the app to be extremely user friendly," says Tim DeBenedictis, whose firm, Southern Stars, developed the app in partnership with Sky & Telescope. "It gives the user a day-by-day report on the week’s most exciting sky events with a link to an interactive sky chart that tells you when and where to look to see the event." "But it goes beyond that," says S&T editor in chief Robert Naeye. The app is based on the S&T website's popular This Week's Sky at a Glance bulletin, which presents editors' picks of the most exciting things to observe each night, from planetary conjunctions to eclipses to meteor showers. The splash screen for S&T SkyWeek for Android.
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