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

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

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

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

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It seems it does not run on Android, sadly

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean? I use it frequently.

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)