Live Star Chart (Planetarium) 1.0.7

Live Star Chart is an astronomy application designed for passionate star enthusiasts, hobby astronomers, and stargazers who appreciate well-researched and accurate astronomical data and illustrations.

• The primary feature of the app presents a detailed and scalable celestial map showcasing constellations and celestial objects with a visual magnitude of up to 6.3, observable with the naked eye or small telescopes. Users can manually set the location and time of observation as well as the viewing direction or opt for the automated "Live mode," utilizing GPS, real-time data, and compass guidance.
• Each celestial object (fixed star, deep sky object, planet, moon, sun, meteor shower) includes detailed additional information. Information sourced from the Bright Star Catalog and Washington Double Star Catalog is accessible for fixed stars. Users also have the capability to attach personal notes and links to each object.
• The app offers a robust search function enabling users to center the map on a specific celestial body or guide real-time observers to objects in the night sky with customized directions. Searches can be conducted based on the traditional name of an object, its catalog designation, or the constellation it belongs to. Furthermore, users can effortlessly identify celestial objects using the device's alignment in "Live mode."
• Complementing its core functionality, the app includes various astronomical tools and data:

1. Astronomical events: displays essential astronomical events in tabular form within a user-defined time frame.
2. Orbit diagram: presents scalable illustrations of planetary orbits along with positions of planets, minor planets, and over 150 minor objects like asteroids and comets in the solar system (orrery).
3. Moon view (orthogonal projection): offers resizable orthogonal geocentric or topocentric projections of the moon while accounting for factors like libration, moon phase, position angle, and parallactic angle. Users can opt for labeling major lunar features along with a selenographic coordinate grid.
4. Rise and set diagram: provides a visual representation of planetary visibility as well as sunrise and sunset times.
5. Positions of Jupiter and Saturn's major satellites: displays the relative positions of key satellites surrounding Jupiter and Saturn (e.g., Io, Europa, Ganymede) with corresponding labels.
6. Tabular data: tabulates rise, culmination, and set times of celestial bodies, along with various planetary and lunar phenomena timings such as oppositions, conjunctions, eclipses, equinoxes, and more.
7. Ephemerides calculator: facilitates calculating sun's, planets', and moon's positions within specified time frames in different coordinates systems. It also offers data on planetary velocity, physical characteristics like apparent diameter and magnitude.
8. Morning and evening appearance of Venus and Mercury: illustrates Venus's or Mercury's positions concerning the rising or setting sun across synodic periods.