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SkyMap for Windows 8
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The popular Windows Phone SkyMap application, downloaded by more than half of million users, now comes to Windows 8!
SkyMap is an amazing planetarium for your device. It enables you to point your device at the sky and see what stars, constellations, planets or deep space objects are out there in real time.
SkyMap shows the sky in 3D, like you see it at night time exposing a collection of over 110000 stars.
It’s very easy to use for any viewpoint, time and location on Earth: it determines your location automatically, supports pinch to zoom for more details and provides a highly customizable map.
*Free trial available
SkyMap has a full set of features in order to help both casual stargazers and amateur astronomers to explore and locate the objects in the sky.
can use the current time and location but you can also customize them
interactive zoom
night mode
touch screen support
realistic Milky Way image and horizon
stars twinkle
constellations with beautiful Johannes Hevelius’s artwork
constellations, stars, deep space objects, planets, sun and moon information
fast loading and initialization
point to sky mode
improved sky map graphics: planet images, star colors, diffraction spikes, etc
sky object information (wikipedia integration)
alt/az grid
additional customizations (show/hide map layers: planets, stars, messier objects, etc)