AcruSky for Android is an easy and powerful planetarium software that allows you to explore the night sky from your Android device. It contains more than 9000 stars from Bright Star Catalog, full NGC/IC catalogs of deep sky objects, and downloadable catalogs of asteroids, comets and radiants of meteor showers.
AcruSky can predict oncoming astronomical phenomena and will remind you about them, so you will never miss interesting events on the sky like solar and lunar eclipses, conjunctions and oppositions of planets, moon phases and etc.
With AcruSky you can easily plan further observations by using of many adjustment filters like magnitude, altitude, types of observable objects and so on. Tracking tool can show you planets paths on the sky and also will be helpful for planning observations.
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Supported operating systems:
Google Android 10.x, Google Android 2.2, Google Android 2.3, Google Android 3.0, Google Android 3.1, Google Android 3.2, Google Android 4.0, Google Android 4.1, Google Android 4.2, Google Android 4.3, Google Android 4.4, Google Android 5.x, Google Android 6.x, Google Android 7.x, Google Android 8.x, Google Android 9.x
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What's New in This Release:
· Minor bugfix.
What's New in 1.6
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