Android Apps

 

Visual Observational Astronomy

• Google Sky Map - Planetarium application, uses acceleratomers to show stars in the direction the phone is facing
• Moon Phase / Moon Phase Pro - 3D interactive display/simulation of the Moon
• SkEye - Planetarium application, similar to Google Sky Map but with more features and information.  (Paid version available)
• SatTrack - List and alert of satellite flybys (donate version available).

Tools

• Clear Sky Droid - Viewer for Clear Sky Chart
• Sidereal Clock - Utility that shows current sidereal time and UTC (Paid version available)
• Astro Panel - astronomical weather viewer (using 7timer information). Also includes ISS passes and darkness/twilight information.
• PlanetDroid - Ephemeris calculator for planets, comets and NEOs (donate version available).

Pictures

• Galaxy Zoo - Helps the Galaxy Zoo project towards classifying galaxies using SDSS images
• NASA - Official app with NASA TV viewer, News, Missions and APOD viewer/background setter.
• NASAImages - unofficial  Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) viewer, easy to set pictures as background

 

Journals

• Adobe Reader - The standard PDF reader
• arXiv Droid - Searches and downloads articles from arXiv. Uses Adobe Reader or another PDF reader for most articles.

 

Research

• ioda - File Viewer for FITS, AIDA, ROOT, JPG and FOG files. Not a pretty UI, but works
• 3D Sun - Provides 3D solar multi-band displays from STEREO's images
• Eclipse Calculator - Solar/Lunar eclipse and planetary transits calculator
• Asteroid Tracker - Displays information regarding NEOs