What open source star gazing apps do you recommend? (lemmy.ml)

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Preferably Android apps available through F-Droid, but feel free to recommend iOS apps, too!

On iOS, I really like Sky Guide—I don't think it's open source, but it has the right features for the casual star gazer like myself, specifically the ability to point my phone at an object (i.e., "what's that object up there") and/or search by name ("where's Jupiter right now"). After my transition to Android, I've found Sky Map, which has good feature parity with Sky Guide.

Any other open source apps like Sky Map that I haven't found yet?

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[-] Tramort@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago

I really like Stellarium on Android

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Stellarium is an amazing planetarium program, almost unbelivable it's open source.

But it's android port is a bit disappointing, to be honest.

[-] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

I've seen this app recommended in other articles; unfortunately, it is unavailable on F-Droid, so I've yet to try it for myself, but thanks for the recommendation.