Star Rover - Stargazing Guide

Hold up your phone and discover stars, planets, constellations night or day.

Star Rover - Explore the Night Sky

"Star Rover - Stargazing Guide" is a powerful planetarium app that lets you explore and identify stars, planets, and constellations by simply pointing your phone at the sky. Automatically adjusting to your location, it provides real-time updates and allows you to view celestial objects from any location in the world, even traveling through time to see the sky on different dates. With stunning graphics and information on over 120,000 stars, this user-friendly app enhances your stargazing experience like never before.
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App stats

Rating: 4.12
(886)
Version: 3.0.5 (Last updated: 2024-09-07)
Creation date: 2014-06-25
Price: 1.99
Permissions
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Other: view network connections, full network access

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App summary

Do you love the starry night? Do you want to know everything in the sky? Star Rover is the fantastic planetarium for your smart phone. Just hold up your phone and Star Rover will tell you exactly what you are pointing at.

Star Rover determines your location automatically. You'll see the stars, moon, planets, constellations in their proper place from your current location. As you move your phone, the star map updates in real time.

Star Rover makes the virtual sky a gorgeous view. You can see star twinkling, beautiful nebulae, occasional meteor and even sunset glow in the evening.

Star Rover is very easy to use. You can simply change the sky view in settings and use Quick Find for everything you want to know in the night sky.

Star Rover lets you set your location manually so you can see the sky from any part of the world. It also lets you travel to the future or the past and see the sky on different dates and times. If you are planning for a solar eclipse, this is the app you need.

Features

- Over 120,000 stars.
- All 88 constellations with beautiful artworks.
- Planets and their moons with stunning graphics.
- Moon phases.
- Real images of Messier objects.
- Sky objects information.
- Realistic Milky Way.
- Equatorial and azimuthal grids.
- Sky view underneath the horizon.
- Visual magnitude adjustment.
- Manually time & date setting.
- Manually location setting.
- Quick Find.
- Point and view.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Very informative and useful for amateur astronomers
  • Good user interface
  • Engaging for star and planet gazing
  • Helpful descriptions and search options
Cons
  • Inaccurate sky positioning and sync issues
  • Interface issues such as small labels and cluttered views
  • Some functionality not working as expected after updates
  • Limited features like lack of satellite viewing options
Most mentioned
  • Sky positioning issues
  • User-friendly interface
  • Inaccurate information and sync problems
  • Informative for amateur astronomers
  • Desire for additional features
User reviews
Very slow moving
by Mostafa Ali, 2024-10-14

awesome, fun and instructive. search options are very very useful and descriptions are like pocket star-encyclopedia. no clear nite sky goes by that i do not use Star Rover "on the fly". do not forget to gaze! thx!!!
by Tony Ramuni, 2023-09-10

I may be slim on parking meter quarters today and avoiding a ticket by watching my time as a designated driver downtown but the few bucks I did spend on this app keep me more connected with the universe beyond light pollution and wrenching city dread.
by Autumn Stevens, 2022-10-14
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