Star Chart APK for Android

Star Chart – display of the starry sky in an interactive format, supplemented by an exploration mode and educational materials. This program provides access to the stars and other celestial bodies to those amateur astronomers who cannot afford to purchase a professional telescope, but wish to satisfy their thirst for exploration.

A mobile device with this program turns into a portable telescope that will open the way to the depths of space. You can use the program not only in contemplation mode, by tapping on an object, the user instantly opens a block with information about the object and its three-dimensional model.

Information borrowed from the Messier catalog, which contains information on hundreds of astronomical objects – stars, nebulae, planets, satellites, comets, meteor showers. Travel back in time to see what the starry sky looked like overhead an hour or a day ago. Take a look at the sky not only from your current location, but also from anywhere in the world by setting the appropriate coordinates in the parameters.

Features:

• navigation through the starry sky from the screen of a mobile device;
• monitoring in real time or for the selected period;
• information about stars, planets and other celestial bodies;
• search function by name or categories;
• 3D layout of the solar system;
• zoom and pan.

The Star Chart application turns a smartphone or tablet into a window through which the user can look into the depths of space and learn a lot of informative information along the way.