Celestron SkyPortal Hack 3.5.0 + Redeem Codes
Developer: Celestron, LLC
Category: Education
Price: Free
Version: 3.5.0
ID: com.celestron.skyportal
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Description
Celestron’s newest planetarium app is an astronomy suite that redefines how you experience the night sky. Explore the Solar System, 120,000 stars, over 200 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and dozens of asteroids, comets, and satellites—including the ISS. SkyPortal includes everything you need to experience the night sky in an exciting new way. When connected to a compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, you can automatically point the telescope to any object in the database and view it with great detail.
Planetarium Features
Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.
•Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
•Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
•Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
•Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
•Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
•Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
•Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
•Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.
Computerized Telescope Control
Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.
SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.
Planetarium Features
Simulate the night sky and plan your observing session with a custom list of tonight’s best objects based on your exact time and location. Look ahead to see when Jupiter’s Great Red Spot will be visible, animate transits, eclipses, and other celestial events. View hundreds of photos or listen to more than four hours of audio narration to enhance your stargazing experience.
•Simulate the night sky from anywhere on planet Earth, up to 100 years in the past or future.
•Compass Mode (with compatible devices): Hold your device up to the sky for a real-time synchronized display of celestial objects – from star names, constellations, planets, to nebulae and galaxies.
•Control compatible Celestron WiFi telescopes with sophisticated mount modeling for quick and accurate go-to alignment.
•Animate transits, conjunctions, eclipses, and other events with SkyPortal's Time controls.
•Explore the sky with Night Vision turned on, and preserve your eyesight after dark.
•Learn the history, mythology, and science of the heavens with SkyPortal's hundreds of object descriptions.
•Browse hundreds of astronomical photographs and NASA spacecraft images
•Access over 4 hours of audio commentary to guide you through the best celestial objects.
Computerized Telescope Control
Pair your device to your compatible Celestron WiFi telescope, align with Celestron’s patented SkyAlign™ technology, and you’re ready to explore! Identify objects instantly. Tap any object and your telescope automatically centers it in the eyepiece.
SkyPortal’s telescope alignment incorporates advanced mount modeling, providing better pointing accuracy than other telescope systems which rely on a dedicated computer.
Version history
3.5.0
2023-07-05
Added support for StarSense AutoGuider
3.4.4
2022-06-04
Improved WiFi connections.
3.4.3
2022-04-08
Bug fixes and performance enhancements.
3.4.2
2021-08-04
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
3.4.1
2021-03-06
Minor improvements and bug fixes
3.4.0
2021-01-22
Russian language support added.
Localization fixes.
Graphics Improvements
Observation UI fixes
Localization fixes.
Graphics Improvements
Observation UI fixes
3.3.4
2020-10-16
Fixes for related to iOS14
3.3.2
2020-08-14
Localization Fixes
3.3.1.1
2020-06-12
Connectivity issue with older WiFi modules fixed
Translation fixes
Focus Motor control UI improvements
Push notification support added
Translation fixes
Focus Motor control UI improvements
Push notification support added
3.3.0.5
2020-05-04
Celestron Focus Motor control added
StarSense code overhauled
Localization support added for German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Japanese
Bug fixes
StarSense code overhauled
Localization support added for German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Japanese
Bug fixes
3.1.0.9067
2019-03-18
- Celestron's All-Star Polar Alignment routine, allowing you to easily polar align your German Equatorial or wedge-mounted Alt-Az mount, without accessories that aid in polar alignment
- Tilt-to-slew, tilt your phone/tablet to slew your telescope
- Bug fixes
- Tilt-to-slew, tilt your phone/tablet to slew your telescope
- Bug fixes
3.0.0
2018-06-14
-First release of SkyPortal powered by SkySafari6
-Bug fixes
-Bug fixes
2.4.1
2017-09-29
- Improved connectivity
- Wedge alignment routine bug fixed
- Wedge alignment routine bug fixed
2.3.0
2017-05-24
- New Celestron telescope settings icon
- Bug fix which caused it to take 30 - 45 seconds to connect to an Evolution mount
- Bug fix which caused the Access-Point menu to not open
- Bug fix which caused it to take 30 - 45 seconds to connect to an Evolution mount
- Bug fix which caused the Access-Point menu to not open
2.2.3
2017-04-15
-Improved interface response time when connected to Celestron WiFi-enabled telescopes.
-Miscellaneous stability fixes.
-Miscellaneous stability fixes.
2.1.1
2017-01-31
--Fixed crash when running on iOS 8.
--Fixed bug that prevented browsing the online saved settings repository on iPhone.
--Fixed StarSense alignment bug when used with the CGX mount
--Fixed bug that prevented browsing the online saved settings repository on iPhone.
--Fixed StarSense alignment bug when used with the CGX mount
2.0.1
2016-10-17
* Fixes critical bug with StarSense on CGX
* Support for CGX and AstroFi telescopes
* Other bug fixes and improvements
* Support for CGX and AstroFi telescopes
* Other bug fixes and improvements
2.0
2016-08-24
-- Added telescope control for Astro Fi series telescopes.
-- Object list image thumbnails
-- Updated object descriptions
-- Improved sky and horizon
-- New sound effects
-- Compass now smoother and more accurate
-- Track ISS and Satellites
-- Improved OpenGL 3D models of many moons
-- Fixed some UI bugs, and other minor fixes.
-- Object list image thumbnails
-- Updated object descriptions
-- Improved sky and horizon
-- New sound effects
-- Compass now smoother and more accurate
-- Track ISS and Satellites
-- Improved OpenGL 3D models of many moons
-- Fixed some UI bugs, and other minor fixes.
1.5
2015-12-23
StarSense automatic alignment support added. Now connects to a Celestron telescope equipped with StarSense AutoAlign.
--Telescope control with StarSense, app automatically aligns the telescope with a single tap!
--Supports StarSense EQ, Alt-Az, and Wedge align, and StarSense manual align.
--Telescope control with StarSense, app automatically aligns the telescope with a single tap!
--Supports StarSense EQ, Alt-Az, and Wedge align, and StarSense manual align.
1.4
2015-04-24
- Support for alignment when using a mount with a equatorial wedge.
- Improved graphical support for iPhone 6 Plus
- Improvements to the UI for using saved settings.
- Added support for push notifications.
- Stability improvements.
- Improved graphical support for iPhone 6 Plus
- Improvements to the UI for using saved settings.
- Added support for push notifications.
- Stability improvements.
1.3
2015-02-27
• Fixed minor bug where tracking would not begin until slewing to an object after completing a SkyAlign.
• Added 64-bit iOS support.
• Added 64-bit iOS support.
1.2
2014-09-12
* First star slew for southern hemisphere EQ align
* Tracking update for EQ and Alt/Az
* EQ operation on reconnect
* Tracking update for EQ and Alt/Az
* EQ operation on reconnect
1.1
2014-08-22
SkyPortal Universal Support -- supports Celestron telescopes equipped with the Celestron WiFi Adapter.
1.0
2014-05-22
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Ratings
3.6 out of 5
280 Ratings
Reviews
Jm the Duke,
App is simplistic perfection
I was introduced to sky portal when I got a celestron go to telescope a short time ago and it’s become my primary astronomy app since it easy to use, contains a through library of visible objects in the night sky of the northern hemisphere and with the compass mode gives you a rough view of the sky you are looking at in real time, my only recommendations for anyone using this app would be to use it on a iPad or tablet over a smartphone as the arrow keys used to slew a telescope and the crosshairs used to target an object can be tricky to use on the smaller screen. It would be nice if there were more satellites and objects listed maybe that’s what Sky Safari Pro is for and I may upgrade one day but at the moment Sky Portal meets the means for my backyard astronomical observations. App is 4 stars
Ghostfleet2020,
Great App
I use this app with my Celestron 11” Edge HD and the CGX mount. I also utilize the Star Sense camera with it for alignment and it works beautifully. The only issues I have are the Celestron focus control is very sensitive and very confusing and almost impossible to use and updates to the app to include data for new comets are very slow to occur for example the latest new comet Neowise has been visible for a while now and it is not listed in SKy Portal but has been in the Sky Safari app for quite some time now.
virtualMtd,
Great app for learning and controlling telescope. One improvement.
I love this app however I have one suggestion for improvement: When using the audio guides in the Info section, let the audio playback continue to work when the screen locks or auto locks. Many people have their phones set to auto lock after as little as 30 seconds and when this happens any audio playback currently in progress instantly shuts off when the phone locks. Only unlocking the phone will instantly resume playback. Seems like that improvement should be possible based on many other apps out there being able to play audio while the phone is locked. Thank you!
JOIN Cat-O-Rama,
Works, but not as I want it to
I finally got my first celestron 6se telescope that is one of the Best purchases I’ve bought. With that, I also bought the WiFi module that connects to SkyPortal. For about five months I was trying to align the app to my telescope. The app estimates where your telescope is pointing for extra accuracy, but for an odd reason, my pointer on the app is nowhere close to where the telescope is actually pointing. Though this is a minor problem one may say, but because the pointer on the app is so inaccurate, whenever I try aligning, the second star always says that there was an error. The error was that the app says that the alignment for, say Jupiter, is impossible in that location. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Ridgesoar,
Junk
This is a terrible downsized version of a great app (sky safari). It will not consistently go-to, it won't keep the settings that you've put in the hand controller (max elevation,cordwrap!etc.) the cordwrap setting doesn’t work—if you try to use this with your scope remote it will wrap itself to a grinding standstill. The only reason I have this is that it is the only thing offered with Celestron's Wi-fi module. I'm junking both the module and the program and going back to the Orion setup that allows use of SkySafari
Newest view— -IF you have sky safari already you can use the Celstron wi-fi module by bypassing this junk and selecting “Celestron Wi-Fi “in the telescope drop down in the Telescope settings in SkySafari .It ties you in and works!! (Even though your scope is NOT a Wi-Fi scope)
Newest view— -IF you have sky safari already you can use the Celstron wi-fi module by bypassing this junk and selecting “Celestron Wi-Fi “in the telescope drop down in the Telescope settings in SkySafari .It ties you in and works!! (Even though your scope is NOT a Wi-Fi scope)
PyroRaptor,
Needs red mode
I’m surprised that a telescope control app does not include a mode to change its color scheme to shades of red. This app has either full color or grayscale. The “Star Chart” app has a red mode to help preserve your night vision while showing a chart of the night sky wherever you point it, but isn’t designed to communicate with and control a telescope like SkyPortal.
Please add red mode to let us control our telescopes without destroying our night vision. That will raise this review to five stars.
Please add red mode to let us control our telescopes without destroying our night vision. That will raise this review to five stars.
Z-Leroy,
Why all the poor reviews?
This is a very nice app. Especially considering that it is free, has no annoying advertising, and has many features that are similar to starwalk2.
It searches, uses current location, shows planets, stars, constellations, and much more. If one clicks on an object, it offers an audio description of the item.
Give it a try, you will not be disappointed.
It searches, uses current location, shows planets, stars, constellations, and much more. If one clicks on an object, it offers an audio description of the item.
Give it a try, you will not be disappointed.
AjaxMONK,
Great App, but focus motor control has issues
I have a NexStar 8SE with a focus motor as well as the SkyPortal wifi module. Connecting to the module was very easy and its fun using my phone to navigate around.
My main issue however is with the Focuser controls. Any movement in the positive direction using the fine focus buttons works fine, but any movement in the negative direction causes several focuser rotations one way, then back to the position I decreased it too. Seems like it should only increment a little bit, but it doesn’t.
My main issue however is with the Focuser controls. Any movement in the positive direction using the fine focus buttons works fine, but any movement in the negative direction causes several focuser rotations one way, then back to the position I decreased it too. Seems like it should only increment a little bit, but it doesn’t.
Jeffinma,
Not very usable with iPhone XR
Downloaded this app too check it out. Sounded great on the Celestron web site. I installed it and just tried compass mode. When the phone is held still, the images bounce around like the phone is vibrating. It's unusable in compass mode without some kind of dampening.
I liked star maps and features but because of the jumpy screen issue I'm deleting the app.
Maybe I'll try it again in six months of they address the issues I mentioned.
I liked star maps and features but because of the jumpy screen issue I'm deleting the app.
Maybe I'll try it again in six months of they address the issues I mentioned.
Agood1613,
This app is underrated
This app is amazing the people that develop this did an amazing job like jaw-dropping.
It’s incredible to locate every star ,every planet ,every dwarf ,planet every ,galaxy every constellation, every moon. It even gives you facts about all of those it. It’s astonishing it’s hard to explain how much I love this app I really really recommend you downloading this!!
It’s incredible to locate every star ,every planet ,every dwarf ,planet every ,galaxy every constellation, every moon. It even gives you facts about all of those it. It’s astonishing it’s hard to explain how much I love this app I really really recommend you downloading this!!
