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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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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Add ability to create and share custom constellations or asterisms.
In a user interface allow me to create and share my own constellations. Allow me to toggle these on and off or use another color, esp for asterisk like big dipper within Ursa Major. It would perhaps allow me to more personally identify with patterns of stars in the sky. Also allow me to selectively use constellations from other cultures.
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Plate solve - Automatic Aligment
Add possibility to plate solve telescope aligment using phone camera. This would help a lot when using manual alt az mount.
Just turn on your phone align it with scope. Plate solve. This would be almost perfect replacement for DSC.4 votes -
Communication with Arduino
I have built an Arduino based laser star tracker, but have to manually input the coordinates. Would be great to somehow connect Skeye to it.
www.instructables.com/id/Star-Track-Arduino-Powered-Star-Pointer-and-Tracke/4 votes -
Have a reverse color mode for the "Day" color mode.
I like to set up my scope during the day for observing that night. Since my yard has several trees, I need to pick the right spot.
I use Skeye for this in the "Time Machine" mode, but the black screen reflects the light from my face back to my eye and makes the screen hard to read. Also the contrast between the screen and the adjacent sky makes it even harder to see the screen.
A daytime color mode with a white sky and black objects would solve this problem.
I think.
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4 votesInteresting idea, thanks!
But it’s hard to implement. Will have to think more.
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Celestial Poles location aid
Provide a permanent, small, highlighted circle around the North and South Celestial Poles.
With the phone or tablet mounted on the scope, this will aid in performing an initial Polar alignment.4 votesNice idea!
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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 a "red light" function (making all screen red)
useful when mounting telescope, annotate, read a paper and so on...
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Transmit orientation via USB, wireless, or bluetooth to a computer.
It would be useful to have the orientation information available to external applications. It should be fairly simple to transmit the orientation to a computer so that it could use that information in a satellite tracking or telescope control application. Perhaps go with a standard API like ascom.
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Option to include Earth's continents, so I can point down and really experience how I'm on a sphere!
I love being reminded the stars are around me at all times. I also love being reminded of the fact I'm on a sphere.
SkEye helps me with the first, which is awesome. Couldn't it also help me with the second?
I'm imagining a very basic map that basically lets me see the shape of the continents more than 20 degrees away from my location. Visualizing that gives me a big thrill.
I'm unaware of any app that does that right now, and I think it'd be mindblowing.
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Specify lat / long in degrees and minutes not just decimals
Allow lat / long to be specified in degrees and minutes.
This can be in addition to decimals, because sometimes only decimal values are at hand.
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Support for Bluetooth Goto
Loving this fantastic app, keep up the work. I am sure others will have asked for Bluetooth goto, same as sky safari.
There is open source code available on Google code with drivers for goto and for Bluetooth serial.
Many standard adaptors out there for Bluetooth to serial. (50 USD)
I suggest you start with skywatcher and celestron as they have largest young users who are learning and will want goto.Bluetooth is better than cable because frees the mobile from the camera for point and shoot plus less cables to get tangled.
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Polar Alignment Tools: PA Mode
Splitting my original post out into one idea per post;
https://skeye.uservoice.com/forums/93533-skeye-app/suggestions/45140077-polar-alignment-tools
Have a Polar Alignment Mode where when enabled the device is assumed to be locked off on a tripod (no handheld movement/jitter). From here, have SkEye filter outlying sensor readings (standard deviation function or similar) so that the readings can be more readily relied upon for Polar Alignment within a degree or so accuracy.
This is generally good enough for very wide astrophotography. For instance, the MSM star tracker provides a laser pointer for those in the Northern Hemisphere to point to Polaris, which is about 45 arcmin off…
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Polar Alignment Tools: NCP & SCP as targets in catalog
Splitting my original post out into one idea per post;
https://skeye.uservoice.com/forums/93533-skeye-app/suggestions/45140077-polar-alignment-tools
Add the North & South Celestial Poles into the catalog so that they can be searched and targeted. This will help with initial polar alignment, and may even be sufficiently accurate for very wide field astrophotography for exposures up to a few minutes.
I use this method already to get 2 minute exposures using up to 35mm lenses on my Full Frame cameras.
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Lunar light "pollution." Based on the moon phase, add an option to simulate the washout of stars from moonlight.
0In increasing the area of effect, add a halo/shadow that makes lower magnitude Stars less visible on the screen, similar to how the moon tends to wash out nearby Stars. This effect would be enabled and disabled quickly by toggling on to the moon. Maybe simply an inverted lunar shadow vice a 'dimming'. Helpful in identifying stars near the moon in the sky. A sliding adjustment bar for magnitude relative and in vicinity of of the Moon could be in the controls. This way the user controls the radius of the Shadow and the amount of apparent washing out.
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Use phone camera for alignment and more presice tracking. (can snap camera to finder scope for more brightness)
When I snap the phone camera to finderscope i can record video with clearly visible stars. If the app could use the phone camera for alignment, it would greatly improve the accuracy and remove realignment nesessity.
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Indirect mode on/off toggle
I like to plan and prepare for my viewing when away from the telescope.
I would like an option to toggle on/off indrect mode using the menu.3 votes -
Polar Alignment Tools: Offeset Mode
Splitting my original post out into one idea per post;
https://skeye.uservoice.com/forums/93533-skeye-app/suggestions/45140077-polar-alignment-tools
The further you get from the equator, the higher in the sky the NCP & SCP get. Currently I have my phone mounted perpendicular to my Star Tracker to get alignment which makes it very hard sometimes to get down to view and control the phone. Would be awesome if there was an offset option in SkyEye so I could mount my phone horizontal to my tracker with the screen facing upwards. SkEye would effectively offset all the values coming from the sensor by 90 degrees so on the…
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24 hour time format in time-machine
An option to select 24-hour format for Time Machine. Many are not accustomed to the english time format.
(Separated this idea from another idea)
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Support phones without magnetometers
I recently moved to Moto G4 Plus only to find out that it does not have magnetometers. since the Moto G4 series is already quite popular, I'm sure many other people will share my problem. In the interest of supporting such platforms, could you please make a workaround for us? I want the feature to be able to manually select a field-of-view on the phone (which I can already do in the app), and then manually align the phone against those features in the sky, to register its orientation. Once registered, the app can use accelerometers and gyroscopes to change…
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