glunatic

About glunatic Android App

Glunatic renders the night (and day) sky. The main focus lies on appealing images and fast rendering in high quality.

Keywords: Astronomy, Planetarium

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NOTICE: 90MB external storage and 2MB internal storage are required. Do not download if your device has not enough free space.
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The main features are:

1) 12150597 stars up to mag 13.5 (125178084 stars up to mag 16.5 by use of additional extension-app gluntaic_faint_stars)
2) Solar System: Sun and all planets(8), major satellites. Observer can be located on any solar system body.
3) GPS/network location, accelerometer/magnetometer/gyroscope support, gestures: drag/pinch/rotate
4) change time and star brightness
5) Free: no money, no in-app-billing, no ads, no spyware, no unneeded permissions. No hidden cost for upcoming extensions. Free source code. This is amateur software, I get no financial benefit from doing this.

Please read Options/Help in the menu for detailed description and feature explanation.

What is NOT yet implemented:
- expansion file loading from within the app: the expansion files must be downloaded while downloading the app. This way no fishy permissions are required.
- Object selection and centering
- Object information
- Object searching
- Nebula
- Comets, asteroids, artificial satellites

If you want to help improving glunatic in some way, please contact me via email. I would especially welcome:
+ Webpage and administration help
+ UI designer, graphic