Android sky, star, planet and stargazer apps for HTC, Samsung and Sony phones - April 2014

Here's my latest toy for my Android phone. I like apps about planets and moons and stars.
These Android apps will show you a picture of the night sky on your screen and show you the constellations, where the planets are and what satellites are flying overhead.

Here's the links...

Google Sky Map
Free of course. Easy to use. Fun.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.stardroid



Satellite ARL
Free. Quite interesting to see if you can pick out the ISS.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agi.android.augmentedreality

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There's a bit of trivial fun. Now head away from the city lights and see what you can find.

Also try Star Chart...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.escapistgames.starchart

I have also tried Planet Finder
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobile.PlanetFinder.com

Gazing at the heavens, hoping nothing de-orbits on me. Cheers. Si.
link corrected 28 May 2012

Best free Space websites - NASA, JPL and Cosmotography ... April 2014

Here's my list of 'Space" websites. 

Celestia - download from Scourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/
Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.

Celestia Motherlode for add-ons to Celestia
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/

Cosmotograhpy
http://www.cosmotography.com/index.html

This was in today's email from them - The Sunflower Galaxy.
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/small_ngc5055.html



Here's another ...



It's a good site to find some mind blowing wallpapers.



Google Earth = Google Mars
http://www.google.com/earth/ - download it and go to Mars as well
https://www.google.com/mars/ - check it out ! A full map of Mars.
http://www.google.com/earth/explore/showcase/mars.html - about Google Mars





HiRise
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/







NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)...
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html





NASA Jet Propulsion Labs
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.php

NASA JPL Voyager Project
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/imagesvideo/

Those two space probes are just amazing. Billions of miles they went.
There's a good video on that page. It's well worth a look.
Where are they now ?
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/



The Daily Galaxy is pretty cool.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/



Seeing stars. Cheers. Si.
Checked for links and relevance, April 2014.