Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy 1.4.8
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Publisher Description
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and gazed in wonder at it's beauty? How about in the comfort of your own home!? Well now you can with Vortex Planetarium, one of the most feature complete planetariums on the Android Market.
Combining simplicity and beauty with unrivalled features and power, let Vortex provide you with a stunning view of the night sky.
Features
Augmented Reality (with camera support)
Hold your device to the sky and see an accurate representation of the stars and planets. If your device has a rear facing camera, experience true augmented reality with our sky map overlayed onto the real world! A unique experience not found in any other Android planetarium.
Location
View the sky from any location - Use GPS, Network Provider or our powerful search feature to show you the night sky at your current location, or even the other side of the world.
Time slider
Using our inovative time slider, you can see how the skies looked at any point in time, with fine control over the abilty to rewind, or fast-forward time. Select an object and watch it's motion as it rises and falls.
Huge object database
With over 20,000 objects to discover, you wont run out of things to search for! Included are
* All major and minor planets in our Solar System including all major moons.
* 88 constellations
* 110 Messier objects
* 109 Caldwell objects
* Full Revised NGC-IC catalog (Over 14,000 objects)
* More than 9000 stars
* Meteor showers
Combined with our powerful search, you will never be far away from any one of these objects!
Facts and figures
To compliment the staggering number of objects available, we have made available concise facts and information about the majority of them, with detailed ephemeris and figures for all. You will learn something new with each and every object in the sky!
Events
Discover, at the touch of a button, upcoming celestial events such as eclipses, conjunctions, moon phases, season changes and much more. With the ability to add these events to your device calendar you'll never miss these sometimes once in a lifetime events again!
What's up?
With just one button press, see what objects of interest are in the night sky right now!
Highly configurable
With a bewildering number of configuration options, packaged in a simple to understand design, you can tailor Vortex to your exact needs. Maybe the constellation art is too bright, no problem, adjust it's transparency, need to adjust the number of stars you see to match the real night sky? No problem! We have pretty much every option covered, and if we don't, let us know why we should!
Beauty, speed & simplicity
Our aim is to make sure Vortex Planetarium is easy to use, extremely powerful and look stunning.
Vortex Planetarium has been optimised to run as fast and as smoothly as possible, no jerky movements when you zoom in on Jupiter. We have not ported Vortex from iPhone, it's purely an Android product. This means we can focus on optimising for the platform exclusively. This philosophy guarantees fast and regular updates.
And much more to come
We are always improving Vortex, and you will never have to "upgrade" or make additional purchases for these features and improvements.
About Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy
Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy is a paid app for Android published in the Teaching & Training Tools list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy is MagicTorch Software. The latest version released by its developer is 1.4.8. This app was rated by 10 users of our site and has an average rating of 4.3.
To install Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2017-10-10 and was downloaded 353 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy as malware as malware if the download link to vortex.planetarium.app.vortex is broken.
How to install Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Vortex Planetarium - Astronomy will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
