Google Sky Map

A thrilling Android app by Google which uses phone’s orientation tools to give an exact view of stars and planets on your screen. Point your phone at the sky, and then learn what constellations are visible and if that's a UFO or just Venus. It even works indoors, if you're not keen on getting cold. When you tap the screen, a menu opens up on the left-hand side with which you can choose to display or hide the different levels of Google Sky Map: Stars, Constellations, galaxies, clusters of stars, and fog, Planets, Grid Lines Layer and Horizon Layer. Behind the menu button you’ll find settings. If you scroll down a little, you’ll find that under Location you can refine determining your position even more:

Sky Map is an android application and is designed by and developed by Google engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. To explore universe Google have teamed up with astronomers at some of the largest observatories in the world to bring you a new view of the sky. Using Google Maps this tool provides an exciting way to browse and explore the universe. You can find the positions of the planets and constellations on the sky and even watching the birth of distant galaxies as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.You’ll see the stars through different eyes with Google Sky Map, I can already tell you that much.

Google Sky Map shows you the constellation of stars that’s situated in the direction in which you’re pointing your Android phone. That is to say that what’s shown on your screen corresponds with the actual constellation and its location. The integrated movement censor makes this possible. The app recognizes where you yourself are located thanks to your network data provided by your Android. You can also use the GPS signal, which will give you even more precise data. You can, of course, also deactivate the GPS function and use Google Sky Map in the same way you’d use Google Maps. You can set up this manual mode by clicking on the screen once and then pressing the button in the lower right corner. An entire star scape will open up in front of you like a map, and you can leisurely peruse through the universe by sliding your finger across the screen.