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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2 votes
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introduce a hysteresis to rotation of labels
tilting the device to an angle of slightly more then 45 degrees causes labels of objects to rotate. The angle for rotating back to the former orientation is about identical, so you can held the device at an angle where label orientation will quickly and repetitively flip between horizontal and vertical.
Adding a hysteresis to the angle at which rotation happens will prevent this.4 votesGood idea, thanks.
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Show Flamsteed designation for stars (52 Cyg, etc)
This idea originally was about Greek designations, but since that has been implemented for a while now, I am changing this to Flamsteed numbers as per comment.
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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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Make it work on Kindle Fire.
Free version works unpredictably and inaccurately on Kindle Fire probably due to Kindle' s lack of necessary sensors. Because at times it does perform close enough to be useful, perhaps it can be tuned to use what sensors are present.
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Filter objects in alignment and search screens
Update by Admin: Changed the title to include all objects (not just stars) and also included the search screen (not just alignment)
I want to filter alignment stars by magnitude. I only need a dozen or so and it is difficult looking through a random list of what the app thinks I want or scrolling through many hundreds of stars sorted by name.
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Manual update of satellite TLEs
My only one sky, stars and planet surfer!
I'm a radioamateur and I like follows satellits for watch them in the sky and use with my radio too.
In particular way, I love the ISS - International Space Station.
Due to the frequents altitude reposition, the TLE keps change frequently, so I think is a very good idea add a manual update selecting the file into the sd-card.Thank for your great job!
Cris
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"Doodle" constellation map layer
optionaly enabling add to map special doodle/picture constellation layer, something like this:
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full / partly translation
some people will sure appreciate translation only for stars, constellations, etc. (= "database"), but not for menu / settings, so if u could add option to translation settings (when finished) to choose level of translation between "full" and "object names only", it would be great ;)
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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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9 votes -
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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9 votes
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Include a plan view of the solar system
It would be nice to see how the planets are positioned in the solar system in a plan view. A lunar phase calender is a welcome addition
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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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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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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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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 -
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.
36 votes -
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...
11 votes -
... SkEye to 'remember' the latest assign star if assignments have to be 'cleared'
If for any reason you have to 'clear assignments', screen points to a rather useless position and you have to consult the menu, 'add' a new alignment star, which is timeconsuming. Would be nice to be able to directly select from the last used alignment stars.
7 votes
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