Universal astronomy ephemeris App for calculating high precision ephemeris
Astronomía Ephemeris Aplicación para calcular el efemérculo de alta precisión y las posiciones del sol, la luna y los planetas para los astrónomos aficionados y observadores planetarios comprometidos, prefieren datos y hechos en lugar de bonitas aplicaciones de imágenes. PlanetDroid finds rise, culmination and set times, the beginning of seasons, lunar phases and planetary aspects.
Augmented reality (AR) view: See the positions of planets or comets live on a camera image and search your selected object with your phone!
En el diagrama de visibilidad, puede ver la elevación sobre el horizonte de su cuerpo seleccionado (línea blanca) del NICHT actual y la elevación del sol (línea amarilla oscura), así como los tiempos crepusculares. The horizontal black line ist the horizon, the vertical red line your selected time.
Since version 3.3 it is possible to save locations offline. The file containing the locations is sdcard/.com.strickling/location.txt. It can be edited with any test editor. To start the editor, simply click menu in the location selection form.
Download elements for asteroids and comets from the internet.
Supports GPS localization.
Calculates (select or deselect different items in the menu):
- time of rise, culmination, set,
- azimut of rise and set
- equatorial right ascension and declination
- ecliptical coordinates and distance
- azimut an elevation
- equation of time, true local time, sidereal time
- diameter, brightness, central meridian, position angle of the axis
- for comets and asteroids: motion velocity and direction
- Civil, nautical and astronomic twilight
- begin of the seasons, lunar phases, and lunar age
- times of opposition, conjunction and greates elongation for planets.
- time of perihelion for comets
On some devices without front camera Google Play Store will indicate, that PlanetDroid is not compatible with your device. The front camera is needed for the augmented reality screen. Si desea instalar PlanetDroid sin usar realidad aumentada, instálelo desde mi sitio web: http://www.strickling.net/android_engl.htm#planetdroid
Gracias a Mark Huss por su astrolib que contiene los VSOP-Routines y a los traductores Nenad Trajkovic (serbio), Alfredo Caronia (italiano), Idris, también conocido como Mansur, Ghost-Unit (ruso), Sizhuang Liu (chino), M. César Rodríguez (español) y Osama Al Shammari (Árabo).
Required Permissions:
- Hardware controls: Camera. Required for AR. May cause compatibility refusal for devices without front camera. Try installation from my website!
- Exact location: For site-specific calculations eg. rising and setting times.
- Internet Access: Online access to asteroid and comet orbital databases and online selection of an observation site.
- SD card access: Storing orbital elements data, settings and location coordinates for offline search.
More translators are welcome! If you like this app and prefer using it in your language, contact me! Translation is very easy.
Frequent users are asked to purchase the PlanetDroid donation version to share the Android market fees.
Bugs or problems found? Please send error report for error loclisation and removal or send an email instead of giving bad ratings!