PolarisView
by David J Watkins (WatWare)
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Version 1.0.4 💾 1 Mb
📅 Updated March 10, 2016
Polar align your GEM Equatorial Telescope Mount
Features PolarisView
An app for Astronomy and Astrophotography enthusiasts that use a German Equatorial Mount for your telescope.
PolarisView is a useful utility to assist you while you align your GEM or equatorial mount for your telescope for your astronomy viewing session or for your night of astrophotography.
PolarisView will place Polaris on the screen display of your device exactly as you should see it in your polar finder scope.
Once you adjust your GEM mount so that the view in your polar finder scope matches the screen display, you are polar aligned for viewing the night sky!
The alignment will even get you close enough for short exposure astrophotography as well!
For your astronomy viewing sessions, your motorized mount should keep your object in the view all night long!
Note that while this application will run on devices in the Southern Hemisphere or near the Equator, you will not be able to use the application to align your mount since Polaris will be below the horizon.Bug fix for Android OS 6 - asking for Location PermissionLanguage support for Deutsche, Italiano, Français, Espanol
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What Our Users Say
Don't just take our word for it. Here's what our users have to say about our Android app.
"Excellent app to align my mount for astro photography."
Murray Paulson
"This app is wrong, skywatcher polar scopes show the image inverted and mirror imaged, in other words, rotated 180 degrees, this app doesn't do that. The polar star position is wrong."
Dave L
"Good app."
Yuriy Tarasov
"Software requires GPS. Needs manual GPS input. Completely unuseable, uninstalled immediately."
Jonagent
"Need if wanting to set telescope to Polaris"
Teo
"I have a C8 from 1985. How do I use this app? I need to polar align my scope"
FJB Solutions
"Very simple. Works. Dark background. What more could you want."
Trevor Perry
"Works excellent"
Ian P
"Simple app that does exactly what is needed to orient Polaris for polar align. Thanks!"
Richard Holmes
"Meh"
Steve Bottrell
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Available for Android 8.0 and above