a spectacular application that turns your Android into a star map

I admit it, when I went to see the stars and someone told me that “over there is the Big Dipper”, I accepted not to look bad, but i never see anything. Luckily, there are apps for everything, and Stellarium is a big hit on the Google Play Store, especially with astronomy fans.

It is an application that works as an interactive star map that identifies stars, constellations, planets and even the satellites above us. It is able to perfectly recreate all of these elements, all for free.

understand the night sky

Stellarium is a very neat application that shows us a star map of our region

, as well as the perfect time to start looking at the sky. It is able to simulate and represent all the elements of space that, if we were in a low-polluted area, we could see for ourselves.

The application shows us a star map of any part of the world, with detailed information about planets, stars and other things

Of course, the application goes much further, and allows us take this star map to any city in the world

. In fact, we can not only enter cities and countries, but we can enter exact coordinates somewhere, to see what the sky would look like from that exact point.

In addition to showing us the constellations, planets and others, displays complete information about them. If we click on any element we will know its magnitude, its distance from the Earth, its diameter and a bit of history and additional information.