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Astro Companion (android)

With a catalog of over 13000 deep sky objects and over 2 500 000 stars (up to 11.5 magnitude), Astro Companion offers an ease to find quickly sky objects. The application reveals a realistic "in the eyepiece" sight enhanced with object names, mount rotations. You can navigate through pointing in the sky, using the search engine or with gestures on the screen. You will get a complete sky map for your telescope in your hands including ngc-ic, tycho-II catalogs, planets, double stars and more...

Content
  • Tycho-2 and NGC/IC catalogs
  • Search by name
  • Names display
  • Display of equatorial mount rotations
  • Pointing by GPS positioning and orientation
  • Keeps favorites in memory
  • French / English
Technical requirements
Minimal Android version
10 (Queen Cake)
Memory
Storage space: approx. 50 MB, RAM: 1-2 Go (recommended)
Permissions
GPS (exact)
Privacy Policy

No personal data is collected, stored or disclosed. No mean is carried to identify users.

The application will be able to use the geo-location of the device coupled with the magnetometer and the accelerometer during automatic navigation to calculate and display the visual field virtually behind the screen. This data is neither stored nor transmitted.

The application does not require any use of the network or shared storage space.

This application does not offer advertising and does not allow the sharing of content on social networks.