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Today we offer you a nice application Open source called Planisphere. This beautiful app for Android will help you see the sky with a different eye!
In the past we have already addressed the topic of the sky and astronomy, remember the beautiful Celestia? On that occasion we told you about a real one 3D space simulator to explore the Universe!
We are not expert astronomers so you will forgive any lightness with which we will treat Planisphere. However, it was reported to us on our Telegram group, we tried it a bit and read some comments around. And it seemed like a really interesting application!
Planisphere and GPS coordinates
The app displays the sky above your head using GPS coordinates if you grant it permission to do so. The location is also the only permission required, Planisphere in fact it doesn't require any more to function. Not even the internet. However, you are not obligated to provide access to the location. Alternatively, you can give it the coordinates manually.
You can also set a specific day to find out how the constellations in the sky were, or will be, on that specific date. These are some of its main features:
- Sun and moon;
- over 9000 stars;
- constellation names in English and Latin;
- all the planets of the Solar System;
- azimuthal grid;
- equatorial grid.
As we said, we are not expert astronomers, but the application seemed interesting to us. Knowing how to recognize the constellations above our head is always fascinating and allowing even those who are not experts to do so is certainly commendable.
Planisphere it is available for a fee on Google Play (€1.19) or for free in the store F-Droid. We remind you that when an application is offered for free within F-Droid it's not because it was "stolen" or anything but because its developer decided to make his application free and Open source.
If you find this application interesting you can visit the our section dedicated to applications Open source. We also have one dedicated to games!
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