Stellarium Mobile Sky Map App Reviews

Great job guys. First version of this app was rough, but it has been completely overhauled and is now SOLID. Other apps have more features but none are as solid and simple to use as Stellarium. The scrolling and zooming are like butter. The standard projection Stellarium uses is my preferred. I can finally use the best desktop planetarium software on my phone! Thank you guys so much!

AYFKM? This is great! I see a few unhappy reviews but I never used previous versions so it looks like things have been fixed. Thank you, Noctua.

Ive been using your program on my computer for many years and Im very pleased to have found it available on iPad !!! Fantastic job! Thank you so much!!!

I am a big fan of the desktop Stellarium application and I bought this app with high expectations. This app is very rudimentary compared to other astronomy apps on the App Store. It shows only the brightest DSOs and stars and there is no way customize what you see. When picking a location it goes straight from country level to city level so you have to scroll through hundreds of cities to find the one you are looking for. Overall significant room for improvement.

As an astronomer, with experience of other apps for viewing the sky, please change the time steps to minutes, hours, days, months so that real phenomena like retrograde motion can be viewed. 10, 100, 1000 times real speed is of no use!!

Updating a previous review. Feature rich and well done. Explore all the options to discover more capabilities. Well done. I wonder if its possible to superimpose the sky over an actual image of the terrain from the camera?

Better than many more expensive options. As good as desktop version. Keep doing good job.

You wont find a better astronomy app out there paid or free. I rely on this app frequently and love it.

It seems to be defaulting to Chinese with no option to return to western or English. Date and time does not use English numerals.

best app ever

Lots of things to love on this app. However, the lines for the constellations are almost impossible to see in the dark, making it almost impossible to find what I am looking for. Most frustrating is that the names of the stars and deep space objects are not in English, and I can find no way to change it!?!

Im a high school astronomy teacher and use the desktop app regularly because of the level of detail it provides over other apps. I REALLY need to see the following features to make this useful for my students: absolute magnitude for stars, modern constellation boundaries, and the ecliptic line. Also, the +/- buttons are redundant since pinching does the exact same thing. Use these buttons to do something more useful, like advancing by a particular time increment of your choosing. Also, when in tracking mode (where the sky moves with the phone) make it so when you search for an object arrows guide you to where that object is in the sky so you can move your phone accordingly. Common feature in many other apps, and would make Stellarium on iOS stand out from its desktop counterpart by taking full advantage of the mobile platform. Please add these and I would pay to have this app loaded on every iPad in our department. Thats $$$ for you!

Doesnt seem to know which way north is. Every other application works fine but this puts north facing the wrong way.

I have used Stellarium desktop for years and was excited to find this mobile app. It meets all my expectations! Works perfectly. Any problems in previous releases seem to be fixed. Directionality sensors can be turned on and work well. Ecliptic line can be turned on. Constellation lines have good visibility. The only thing I dont like is the way you have to select locations if you are not using the GPS. You cannot type in a search window but instead have to scroll through a long list of countries and the a longer list of cities to find your closest location. Then it doesnt even remember that location so if you want to find another city in the same country you have to start the entire selection process all over. That is a relatively minor complaint but can be annoying when you want to quick check the view from another location. But all in all this is a 5 star app!! Many many thanks to the Stellarium development team.

**The current version always boots up with the time set 1min 9sec ahead of the actual time. A fix would be greatly appreciated.** This app is very handy to have out in the field for locating targets, especially if you are familiar with the desktop Stellarium app, but this mobile version is quite basic when it comes to viewing options. I love that the ecliptic can be displayed, but why not throw in some additional, simple reference lines like the Meridian, Galactic Equator, or Planet Orbits? It’d be nice to have satellite orbits displayed when an object is selected, perhaps. Also, being able to flip the view horizontally/vertically would be nice while using a telescope. A button or buttons to advance time in various [potentially customizable] increments would also be very useful. Overall, I am pleased with this app, but it is missing a few key display features which would make it vastly more useful.

Great features for amateur astronomers. Red readout for night vision

Adding cloudiness and humidity would be nice.

this app is incredible Ive seen this same program on the computer with way amazing graphics Please making zooming in clearer to see

Neat app idea. After seeing the desktop version I immediately purchased the app to use with my daughter in our homeschooling astronomy studies. I like everything about the app - except that it cant seem to find north. Ive checked the calibration on my iPhone and it seems accurate (or close to). But the app is about 90 degrees off. Makes stargazing rather confusing. I see others have had the same complaint. I hope you can come up with a fix - or tell us how we can calibrate it. Fix that and there will be 2 more stars.

I set this up on my iPad and mounted it to my dobsonian telescope to use as a star chart and it has been pretty amazing so far. I dont have it set to motion so I just scroll on the screen to where Im looking and star hop using stellarium to show me where Im at by comparing it to my field of view. Its not flawless, but its better than acceptable for finding deep sky objects, tracking the planets, and even satellites. One thing I wish was offered was a telrad reticle overlay. That would make this app 100 times easier to use than it already is. The ability to see the size relation on screen and compare it through my telrad would enable me to speed up my star hopping faster than using a goto mount Id bet. I only gave four stars instead of five because in motion it seems to be off quite a bit although still useful, and because I feel that adding a telrad reticle overlay would then make it perfect. At least for me. ;-)