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Originally Posted by OzStarGazer
Is there an app for phone or iPod that really helps locate or identify objects in the sky in real time? Not something like Starry Night, I mean something that works like the SkyScout (with arrows to go there)? Unfortunately though I have no phone or iPod. I usually use emails or Skype to talk...
I could need a new iPod though as the battery of my current mp3 player is going flat very quick now after a few years of use so I would have to buy something new soon anyway.
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If you go to buy a new device ensure it has the required motion sensors and GPS before buying.
The app I use on my iPhone 4S and iPad2 is Redshift. You put it in "follow sky" mode, hold it up to the sky and it will show you what you are looking at. You can zoom in and out as much as you like, and click on objects to show information about them or "rocket" to them in 3D (pretty cool!!). You can also search for an object then hold it up to the sky and an arrow will point you to it until you are on it. Redshift will show you the view behind your phone using your phone's camera overlaying it on the starmap too, so at twilight you can see exctly which tree stars/etc will rise behind
There are many other apps like this but I don't know the others .. I saw one last night which I can't recall the name of now, someone else had it, but it was much more limited - no zoom, less object information, less options.