The latest version released by its developer is 1.39. The company that develops Sky Atlas for Tablets is Requio Web Design. Sky Atlas for Tablets is a paid app for Android published in the Reference Tools list of apps, part of Education. Galaxy Precident SCH-M828C and similarly small phones not supported. Please report any (layout) problems by email. This section is for astronomical computing, such as current positions of the Galilean moons, orbit simulation, calculation of optical equipment performance and more. This list of items is not directly related to the star chart, but to astronomical time-keeping, information and visualizations. Categories which contain a large number of objects are assigned a submenu (tap on screen's menu button) which allow to narrow down by various criteria depending on the nature of the category. Tap on a category to view available objects.

The application operates in landscape, reverse landscape (internal sensors required) and portrait mode (where practicable).

The use of Sky Atlas is believed to be simple, intuitive and largely self-explanatory, yet requiring basic knowledge of astronomy and familiarity with your Android tablet. All images can be downloaded any time for update purposes. At first application use these images will be downloaded from the internet and installed in the external memory card, thus less working memory load.

This includes deepsky, Messier and spacecraft images, as well as astronomical articles. In order to minimize installation package size, since version 1.07, large images are no longer packed in the installer. A star chart can be saved to external memory card for documentation purposes, such as websites or blogs. The star chart is plotted on equatorial coordinates. The electronic form takes advantage of zooming and selection of objects to be displayed or not - possibilities which are not available to paper. It is designed analog to a paper atlas for the purpose of looking up sky positions of celestial objects. Sky Atlas is not planetarium or simulation software. Please also consider Asteria Coeli, the latest astronomical atlas software containing all functions in this Sky Atlas, plus much more - and is cheaper.

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