stargazing app? (slrpnk.net)

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Are there any good open source star gazing apps out there?

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[-] kersploosh 13 points 3 weeks ago

I like Sky Map. Originally developed by Google, open-sourced in 2012.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Map

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Also stellarium. It's open source and really the best. https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium

[-] gigachad 0 points 3 weeks ago

It seems it does not run on Android, sadly

[-] kata1yst 2 points 3 weeks ago

What do you mean? I use it frequently.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Stellarium Mobile doesn't seem to be FOSS which is weird because Stellarium uses GPLv2.

Their issue tracker has a bot that says:

This site actually does not discuss the Mobile version. Please use its own feedback system: https://www.stellarium-labs.com/support/

[-] kata1yst 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That is weird. Thank you for bringing that distinction to my attention, I'd always assumed it was FOSS and just locked a few features behind a paywall on Google Play.

Looks like the mobile version is created by the same person who initially created Stellarium (and the current project coordinator for the FOSS version), but forked and taken closed source? Very confusing.

https://www.stellarium-labs.com/about/

[-] gigachad 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I couldn't find it anywhere on the github page linked. Glad to hear I was wrong.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Sky Map?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

In F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.google.android.stardroid/

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