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Monday: The Best Total Solar Eclipse of the Century

This Monday, August 21st there will be a rare occurrence and a sight to behold: the best total solar eclipse in nearly 100 years. A partial solar eclipse will be visible anywhere in North America Monday, and in certain states a total solar eclipse will be visible.

If you’re in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Wyoming you’ll be able to view the total solar eclipse. If you’re not in any of these states you’ll still be able to see a partial solar eclipse (and it’ll be just as exciting).

Please, use caution when viewing the eclipse! Visit here to read more about eye safety.

And don’t forget to pickup your copy of SkyView to see exactly where and when the sun will be in the sky!

For more information, head over to NASA’s total eclipse website. 

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Get ready for an action packed weekend in the sky!

This year’s Perseid meteor shower will be most visible this Friday and Saturday nights (August 11th and 12th) in the Northern hemisphere.

Due to the full moon this weekend, this year won’t offer quite the spectacle but it’ll still be worth it to head outside and take a look at the shower.

Download SkyView and search for the Perseus constellation to easily find where in the sky the event will take place -- happy stargazing!

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Snow Moon + Lunar Eclipse

This year’s Snow Moon (February Full Moon) will coincide a penumbral lunar eclipse making for a rare celestial event that is easily observable from many locations across the world. A few minutes after the Snow Moon peaks this Friday night, Earth will also cast its shadow onto the Moon’s surface during a penumbral lunar eclipse. If you live in North America, Europe, Asia, or Africa then make sure you don’t miss this event occurring at 7:43 p.m. EST February 10th.

Easily find and track this eclipse using SkyView on iOS and Android! Simply search for the Moon in the app to view its trajectory for the entire day and night.

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Don’t Miss the Largest Supermoon since 1948

In a few days, Sunday, November 13th and Monday, November 14th, you’ll be able to catch the largest supermoon since 1948 -- and there won’t be another like it until 2034. It’s best to spot the supermoon Monday morning right before dawn but almost equally as well either night.

Best stated by Wikipedia: “A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.” 

Grab SkyView for iOS or Android and plan exactly where and when to spot the supermoon for either (or both) of these days!

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2016 Perseid Meteor Shower

One of this year’s biggest events in the sky is about to happen!

This year’s Perseid meteor shower will most visible between midnight and dawn on August 11th in the Northern hemisphere. Of course you have the best view of the shower when out of the city (with minimal light pollution) but even if you’re in the city be sure to look for the Perseus constellation and the shower will be right in view.

Grab SkyView to easily find where in the sky the event will take place and head outside tonight for one of the year’s best shows in the sky!

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SkyView 3.5.0 with New iOS 9 Features

Our latest release of SkyView introduces features that take advantage of new iOS 9 technologies, 3D Touch and Spotlight Search  — COMING VERY SOON!

Use 3D Touch on the SkyView icon to quickly access your favorite sky objects, search, and a quick shortcut to Tonight’s Sightings (a list of planets, stars and satellites visible in your location that night).

In addition we now support Spotlight search. To use Spotlight, just swipe down on your home screen and search for your favorite celestial object like Gemini, ISS, Capella, or Orion. When you touch a SkyView search result, SkyView will open and select the object.  

We’ve also made some other improvements under the hood and have some great updates planned for 2016.

Happy stargazing, everyone!

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2015 Geminids Meteor Shower

Get ready for one of the year’s best meteor showers this weekend! 

To locate the Geminids meteor shower using SkyView, simply select the Magnifying Glass icon in the upper right and search for the Gemini constellation in the early evening either Sunday, December 13th or Monday, December 14th.

The Geminids meteor shower appears to radiate from the Gemini constellation, specifically in the area northeast of the stars Pollux and Castor (you can also search for these in SkyView), and is one of the few meteor showers not originating from a comet.

More information: wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminids

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If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, don’t miss the annual Perseid meteor shower peaking tonight!

To locate the meteor shower using SkyView, simply select the Magnifying Glass icon in the upper right and search for the Perseus constellation around 10:00 pm Pacific time tonight. The shower will continue all night until morning but will be most visible around 1:00 am Pacific time with activity peaking up to 100 visible meteors per hour!

The Perseid meteor shower appears to radiate from the Perseus constellation in the night sky hence its name and consists of thousand year old particles broken away from the Swift-Tuttle comet.

More information: wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids

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SkyView now on Amazon Appstore

We’re happy to announce SkyView is now available on the Amazon Appstore! If you have an account head over and pickup SkyView for Android now:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010KZGP9Y

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SkyView now on Apple Watch.

Our latest version, 3.3, out now on the App Store brings with it many improvements to SkyView, but most notably the inclusion of our brand new Apple Watch app! Using our Sightings Engine, SkyView for Apple Watch always displays an up-to-date view of what’s visible in the sky.

Getting people outside to see the stars, planets, constellations and satellites has always been our goal with SkyView and our new Apple Watch app makes this even easier:

Home View

The main app view shows you a list, ordered by time, of the brightest and best things to see in the sky each night. Quickly scroll through the list to see their visible time window. Tapping on each shows a detail view with description on its location in the sky, time until visible and a button to set viewing notifications.

Glance

Fitting right in with the rest of your Glances, SkyView shows a quick snippet of the next visible sky object for your location and where it’s visible in the sky. Tap the glance to quickly see a countdown timer for when the object is visible.

Notifications

Schedule system notifications for any upcoming sky object sighting to receive a subtle alert on your watch. Never miss that International Space Station streaking through the sky!

Handoff

SkyView takes advantage of Apple’s Handoff technology to let you quickly find space objects using SkyView on your iPhone. When viewing any space object on your watch, swipe up on your iPhone’s lock screen to automatically start SkyView and have it point to exactly where that space object is in the sky.

We’ve spent quite a lot of time designing SkyView for the Apple Watch and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do! 

Now get out there and get stargazing :)

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SkyView 3.2.0 available with Today Widget, Sightings and more!

Our latest update to our augmented reality space exploration app SkyView is now available for download!

We've added support for Apple's brand new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus with high resolution graphics and increased performance. SkyView looks incredible on the large, sharp screen of the 6 Plus.

We've added 5 new hand-picked stargazing music tracks specifically suited for SkyView. These tracks are included with the free update and range from slow and ambient to high-paced sci-fi themes.

Our brand new Sightings view (accessible from Search) shows a continuously updated list of sky objects that will be visible for that day and the next morning. Each sighting can be scheduled as a system reminder so you never miss your favorite event.

iOS 8 has some really incredible new features for users and we've taken advantage of this by adding a new Today Widget that quickly shows a list of upcoming sky object sightings, including their viewing time and sky direction.

We've added a unique "beacon" sound that can be enabled in Settings that will aid in discovery of objects (access this feature in Settings > Music & Sound). The new beacon will beep progressively faster as you get closer to your selected sky object. Think metal detector for the sky.

A few other usability improvements such as a new Search filter option lets you display sky objects that are above or below the horizon.

We hope you enjoy all of our updates and as always, please drop us a review on the App Store if you get a free minute. Reviews help us spread the word about SkyView and keep us developing & adding new features!

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SkyView Now For Android!

The wait has finally come to and end, we just released our app SkyView Explore the Universe for Android devices everywhere! If you like space and have an Android device it's time to explore like never before.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t11.skyview

We've brought our extremely smooth augmented reality view of the universe right to your android device. Track the Sun, Moon, and tons of stars and satellites as they streak through the sky.

We've also taken advantage of the large and high resolution screens on many of these Android devices to show our graphics in a completely new way.

Have fun out there and we'd love to hear your comments, shoot us an email right to [email protected].

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SkyView for Android, Coming Very Soon

Well, the stars have finally aligned here at Terminal Eleven and we're almost ready to launch the Android version of our award winning iOS app SkyView - Explore the Universe!

You can head to our launch site to get notified when it launches: http://signup.terminaleleven.com

What took so long?

We've been working hard for the better part of the year to make sure our stargazing experience on Android matches what we've done for iOS. We've been so focused on our app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod we haven't yet had a chance, and the time just wasn't right, for us to work on Android. With our app at version 3.1 on iOS we felt now was as good of a time as any to venture back to Android.

What versions of Android will it support?

SkyView will run on Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 and above which is 85% of the Android ecosystem.

Will SkyView Android work the same as iOS?

We have spent many hours customizing the Android experience to be just like iOS, with changes that are appropriate. Menus, user interface controls, and other system interactions are tailored to how users would expect on Android, but the core stargazing experience will remain just like you'd find on iOS. This is important for us: you can't have an app be 100% the same for all platforms, it just would not be a good experience on all platforms. So in short, we've made changes where minor and necessary, but have kept the important things consistent.

If you like SkyView (for iOS or Android), please tell your Android friends and family -- and happy stargazing, everyone!

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SkyView 3.1.0 Update

Our latest update brings some great new controls for making stargazing outside even easier. A quick overlay panel now lets you quickly adjust star visibility magnitude, displayed planet size, turning on/off the augmented camera, and more.

We've also re-introduced the gyroscope calibration controls so you can precisely align sky objects with what you see in the sky.

Check it out at the App Store!

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Where did all the space junk and satellites go in SkyView 3.0?

If you're an existing SkyView owner (pre-3.0), satellites and space junk are still in SkyView and can be unlocked free of charge!

Head into the Downloads section (tap the 3-lined button in the upper-left) and tap the "Restore All" button at the top. This will immediately unlock all the satellites and space junk in SkyView for free.

Why did we decide to make satellites an in-app purchase? Because satellite trajectories are constantly changing we have to constantly update their trajectories in SkyView. This takes a significant amount of time and some server costs to push these trajectories to your device. We decided the best course to recuperate some of these ongoing charges would be for us to charge a small in-app purchase for this functionality for all new users.

We hope that everyone is enjoying the multitude of new updates we've added to SkyView 3.0, including night mode, tons of more information, more space objects, and the ability to favorite objects for quick spotting in the sky.

Happy stargazing!

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SkyView 3.0 Now Available!

We've just launched SkyView 3.0 on the App Store! A free update to all users that brings the following: - Completely redesigned iPhone and iPad user interface for iOS 7 - Our most requested feature: night mode! Preserve your vision in the dark with red and green filters - Greatly improved responsiveness of universe when moving device in the air - High resolution 3D satellite models - High resolution Milky Way backdrop stitched from real NASA images and detailed star images - In-depth descriptions for all our space objects with web links for even more  - Favorites support (easily keep track of your favorite satellites, stars, and other space objects) - An incredible music soundtrack and other sounds - Brand new colorful app icon designed by the folks at The IconFactory We've worked very hard to bring this latest version to everyone and are excited to hear your feedback! Download on the App Store! - Happy stargazing everyone -

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SkyView Satellite Guide

This week we released our brand new iOS app SkyView Satellite Guide. We've spent the past 9 months crafting most of this app from scratch. While we've brought over our award winning augmented reality engine from SkyView - Explore the Universe, we created an entirely new way to view the Earth, Moon, Sun, and orbiting satellites. You can pinch-to-zoom in & out and touch-to-pan around the Earth -- all in real time. Each satellite's position is constantly calculated and updated for an up to date view.

Track over 14,000 Earth orbiting objects including weather satellites, communication satellites, navigation satellites, and space debris -- all in real time in our interactive 3D and augmented reality views. The app's extensive database contains interactive information on over 20,000+ objects on those in orbit and those that have returned to Earth.

In addition to the above, we've also included many high resolution 3D models for different satellite types. Each of these models lets you zoom in to investigate while watching it orbit around the Earth.

Grab yourself a copy and see just how much stuff is out there orbiting Earth. We think you'll be surprised with what you see.