App - Google Sky Map: Search for Heavenly Bodies


Just like a magic wand, point out your Android to the sky and you are given a glimpse of heavenly bodies, your window to the skies. This wonderful app called Google Sky Map is compatible with devices running on Android 1.6 and up. This app could be quite addicting because you would always want to know more about the stars. It is like a portable planetarium. It gives you the position of celestial bodies in real time using the GPS of your phone, its accelerometer and compass sensors.
As mentioned earlier, you can check the positioning of the stars in real time but do you know that with Google Sky Map, you can get a view of how the sky was way back 1800’s or maybe how the sky looked like when you were born. At the same time you can also check out the alignment of the planets or how the sky would look like, in advance. It is as if you have gotten a device that would let you travel in time.
Source: androidtrek.

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