PlanetDroid
By W. Strickling
Astronomy ephemeris app for calculating excessive precision ephemeris and positions of Sun, Moon and the Planets for engaged newbie astronomers and planetary observers, prefering data and facts as a substitute of fairly picture-apps. Planetdroid finds rise, culmination and set times, the beginning of seasons, lunar phases and planetary aspects.
Augmented actuality (AR) view: See the positions of planets or comets reside on a digicam picture and search your chosen object together with your phone!
On the visibility diagram you'll be able to see the elevation above the horizon of your chosen body (white line) of the present nicht and the elevation of the solar (dark yellow line), in addition to the twilight occasions. The horizontal black line ist the horizon, the vertical purple line your chosen time.
Since version 3.3 it is potential to keep away from wasting areas offline. The file containing the areas is sdcard/.com.strickling/location.txt. It may be edited with any check editor. To start the editor, merely click on menu in the location choice kind.
Download parts for asteroids and comets from the internet.
Supports GPS localization.
Calculates (select or deselect completely different items within the menu):
- time of rise, end result, set,
- azimut of rise and set
- equatorial right ascension and declination
- ecliptical coordinates and distance
- azimut an elevation
- equation of time, true local time, sidereal time
- diameter, brightness, central meridian, position angle of the axis
- for comets and asteroids: motion velocity and direction
- Civil, nautical and astronomic twilight
- start of the seasons, lunar phases, and lunar age
- instances of opposition, conjunction and greates elongation for planets.
- time of perihelion for comets
On some gadgets without front camera Google Play Store will point out, that Planetdroid isn't appropriate along with your gadget. The entrance digicam is needed for the augmented reality display screen. If you want to put in Planetdroid without utilizing augmented actuality, please set up it from my website: http://www.strickling.net/android_engl.htm#PlanetDroid
Thanks to Mark Huss for his AstroLib containing the VSOP-routines and to the translators Nenad Trajkovic (Serbian), Alfredo Caronia (Italian), IDris a.okay.a. MANsur, Ghost-Unit (Russian), Sizhuang Liu (Chinese), M. César Rodríguez (Spanish) and Osama Al Shammari (Arabic).
Required Permissions:
- Hardware controls: Camera. Required for AR. May trigger compatibility refusal for units with out front camera. Try set up from my website!
- Exact location: For site-specific calculations eg. rising and setting times.
- Internet Access: Online access to asteroid and comet orbital databases and on-line number of an observation site.
- SD card access: Storing orbital components data, settings and placement coordinates for offline search.
More translators are welcome! If you want this app and prefer utilizing it in your language, contact me! Translation is very easy.
Frequent customers are requested to buy the Planetdroid donation version to share the Android market charges.
Bugs or issues found? Please ship error report for error loclisation and removal or send an e-mail as a substitute of giving dangerous ratings!
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