SkEye App
SkEye aims to be an advanced planetarium for Android.
Ideas and suggestions are welcome here. For submitting bug reports, it is better to raise a ticket.
Please submit each idea separately. Even if two ideas are related, it helps to track them separately.
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The ability to create observing plans.
Great and useful app for our astronomers!.. If i may come with a feature request:
If one could create a observing list beforehand, and then later select these objects.
for example before your viewing session you search a object you want to observe and when you have found it you get the option to "add to observing list"
When your list is ready, skeye saves these objects and then, during your observing session, the user can select these objects one by one and skeye will point to that object.
I hope you understand what i mean.56 votes -
Support Digital Setting Circles (DSC)
Support real DSCs not just virtual DSC.
38 votesHave released version 6.0 of DSC Test. It supports N-star alignment. Please give it a try. A tutorial is available here:
lavadip.com/media/dscIntro.pdfPlease tell me which DSC board do you have?
I currently plan to support the following bluetooth boards:
- Craig Combe’s Bluetooth board (which is a modification of David Ek’s serial board)
- BETI by AstroDevices
If you know of any other Bluetooth boards, or serial boards with a Bluetooth adapter, please let me know.
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calculate the FOV based on scope and eyepiece and auto zoom to that level like stellarium's plugin.
Maybe calculate the FOV based on scope and eyepiece and auto zoom to that level like stellarium's eyepiece plugin. This would make it easier to use for polar alignment (showing exactly what you should see in the eyepiece). This view may need to be inverted depending on the type of scope being used I think.
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Add Augmented Reality ...
Would it be possible to use a digital camera input for a background of your planetarium? Just to check if the stars on camera are offset from digital representation on screen? If the cameras in modern smartphones are sensitive enough, of course. And maybe an option to set the transparency level of the planetarium. Just an idea....
32 votesWork on this has been restarted, after 6 years! The current mobile cameras are much better than earlier generation.
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Add a voice recorder and observation logger
With voice recording and observation logging functions SkEye could get closer to being an all-in-one tool for observers. Keep up the good job and thank you!
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Add more object details
Amazing, definitely the best goto app. Currently have to bounce back and forth to another app for object details tho. A pain. I am looking forward to future updates. I bought the app, keep up the great work!
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Physical connection to existing DSC cabling.
Existing DSC cables connected directly to Android device (RS232-toUSB\microUSB) for direct physical input; phone\tablet then acts as current astro computers like those from Lumicon and JMI without needing to add a bluetooth transmitter to existing DSC setup.
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Align to the zenith (or any other fixed point)
Keep the telescope in perfect vertical (using bubble level) and align using the zenith coordinates.
16 votesReopening, because I think there is potential here for creative uses that I hadn’t thought of before.
Such as aligning a radio antenna to East (as suggested by Adrian on email).
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Magnetic interference level indicator
sort of like the metal detector app in the market but perhaps more sensitive and a number value for the interference level. It should be an option from the menu inside the app. It will aid not only in choosing a mounting location for a device but also for scope location choice. it will give users a good idea of the amount of magnetic interference in a chosen observing location.
15 votesSkEye now shows a little warning message when the magnetic field strength is abnormal.
Need to now implement a “meter” as suggested in the idea.
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Create star tours and lists
Create star tours or perhaps a Messier marathon list. Create a tour relevant to location and time of year. Make it so that the user can locate the item on the list using your virtual dsc's and then check it off, move on to the next item. Users could even upload their own favorite observing list for that certain time of year eg Uncle Rod's mid March Messier madness, and other user could use your interface to eperience the same observation list. Great idea and app by the way. Keith
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Please restore Pluto to his place in the heavens, and the other pluto-like satellites
I realise Pluto is no longer classed as a planet, but it and others of it's class are still members of the Solar System.
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Fixed Telrad circles in traditional sizes.
Since you now support devices without the required sensors for the "virtual DSC's", what would be the possibility of getting traditional Telrad circles that stay fixed in the relative perspective of 1/2, 2 and 4 degrees regardless of zoom. That way if users prefer they can use Skeye in the same way you would traditional star charts. With the current variable circles if you zoom to the point of the 4 degree being the outside circle, the user loses perspective and relative position in the night sky. You're just zoomed in to close to get an idea of where you…
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centre and plane of milky way
I want the app to point to the centre of milky way. And perhaps even to the closest "outer border" why not all 4 directions up, down, in and out...
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GOTO control for mounts which have an RS-232 or Bluetooth interface
Example mounts:
Celestron C1111 votes -
Import Viewing Plan from AstroPlanner
Ability to import viewing plans from Astro-Planner (or other applications of the same type) and integrate this with some type of journaling capability.
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Large Position Coordinate Display Mode
Now that I am aging it is extremely difficult to see the tiny position coordinates, especially in night mode. It would be nice to have a mode that only displays RA & Dec in large numbers on the screen for use as a pushto on a scope. Skeye is the best astro app out there. Keep up the great work!
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Separate sensors and display
Sensors on one device and display on another with the two communicating via blue tooth. So the viewing angle wouldn't be tied to the pointing angle. For example a phone strapped to the ota for sensing and a tablet in hand for viewing.
10 votesAgreed, I will be implementing this.
In fact, I am working on a very similar idea, which will be even more convenient.
Have a look here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/skeye/wiki/remote-sensorsThis currently works with dedicated sensors, but in the future, a phone could be made to act as sensing device (as suggested by you).
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Virtual DSC only "Lite" Version
When I'm observing, I only want the minimum necessary to properly do the job. All else just gets in the way, from unnecessary gubbins on the screen to menu options that are too full and, hence, fiddly. The sort of thing I would find ideal is:
- Search button with pick-lists (e.g Messier, Caldwell, NGC-400, user-defined, tonight's best, etc) and search-text entry
- Toggle between AltAz and RA/Dec modes
- Toggle between Skymap/Circle-pointer and AltAz (or RA/Dec, depending on previous toggle) offset with arrow indicators (a bit like, say, an NGC MicroMax display)
- Zoomable skymap via pinching or with volume controls (toggle-able on/off)
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