The Night Sky!

**Night Sky™ comes to Apple TV! ** The popular Night Sky™ stargazing app from iOS makes its debut on the big screen! Explore the sky in the most relaxing environment, whilst interacting with beautiful 3D models of the Solar System. Night Sky™ on Apple TV is the perfect way to explore the sky above with family and friends. It's a great educational tool for all ages, all set to a mesmerising soundtrack! *  All new

The Night Sky alternatives

  • Sky Map

  • Sky Map (formerly the Google Sky Map) turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a window on the night sky. Figure out what you're looking at:Point your phone at the sky, and Sky Map will show the stars, planets, constellations, and more to help you identify the celestial objects in view. You can also browse the skies in manual mode.

    tags: augmented-reality astronomy stars planetarium star-map
  • KStars

  • KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.

    tags: astronomy stars zodiac planetarium star-mapping
  • SkyView

  • SkyView is powerful, easy-to-use app that answers questions about stars, constellations, and more. Simply point the camera to the sky, tap on what you see and discover neat things about these sky objects. SkyView is unique as it blends the camera view with incredible 3D graphics of the sky objects to provide an Augmented Reality (AR) view of your sky.

    tags: educational 3d-graphics augmented-reality astronomy sky-map
  • Cosmic-Watch

  • Discover the fascinating relation between time and the cosmos. Enjoy this interactive learning tool and understand the concept of the celestial sphere and the apparent movement of the sky.

    tags: astronomy astrology sky-map cosmos space-photography
  • SkyORB

  • SkyORB is more than a simple star map, it's a collection of 7 tools including a 3D star map, 3D planetarium, ephemeris, search engine, sun clock, point to sky, weather, and more.

    tags: educational 3d-graphics augmented-reality astronomy stars
  • Star Chart

  • Can’t see the moon? Want to know where it is? Look through the eyes of your device to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.

    tags: augmented-reality constellations google-glass gps oculus-rift-support
  • Starmap

  • Starmap is an intelligent sky navigation tool, written by a professional of the field.

    tags: educational augmented-reality astronomy stars sky-map
  • Aladin

  • Aladin is an interactive sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images or full surveys, superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all known astronomical objects in the field.

    tags: database astronomy sky-map astronomy-software
  • Solar System Scope

  • 3D simulation of the Solar System and night sky - real time virtual orrery and observatory

    tags: offline-access multi-language astronomy stars sky-map
  • Aciqra

  • Aciqra (uh-SEE-kruh) is a free and open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past. It's software that generates a virtual sky so you'll know what's up in the real one.

    tags: Discontinued Portable WINE astronomy stars
  • SkEye

  • SkEye is an advanced Planetarium that can also be used as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes.

    tags: astronomy night-mode planetarium sky-map star-chart
  • StarMap 3D

  • StarMap 3D Plus is the portable star atlas for beginners or advanced astronomers. Use StarMap 3D Plus to find the planets, stars, constellations, star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae visible to you based on your location and time. StarMap 3D will even use the compass to automatically align the map!

    tags: augmented-reality astronomy stars planetarium star-map