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Originally Posted by julianh72
I think you might have been using a much older version of SkySafari, or possibly using it on a device with no compass, such as an old iPhone or iPod Touch.
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No, it was an iPhone 5, but probably running Sky Safari 3.
Bill Tschumy replied to my question:
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In SkySafari 4, the gyro button was removed because we felt it was no longer needed. We now make use of Apple's "sensor fusion" in which reading from the gyro are automatically used to stabilize and smooth out the compass readings. The only reason the gyro button was there in addition to the compass was for cases where the compass was not working properly.
The gyro button is still there on the iPod touch which doesn't have a compass.
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So, there goes the ability to simply strap the phone to the tube...
Not a great loss IMO, those phone sensors are not really accurate enough for this to work reliably. You'd have to re-sync all the time.
Cheers
Steffen.