Mobile & Tablet Apps Overview

Course Assistants

Reference Apps

Professional Assistants

Personal Assistants

• Compute planets' orbital properties, including orbital period and distance from the Earth and Sun
• Learn about physical properties like radius, mass, rotation period, and number of moons
• Get information about a planet's atmosphere, including atmospheric pressure, average temperature, and major constituents
• See a map of the current solar system configuration and an image of the planet
• Find nearby sky objects, current sky position from your location, and next rise and set
• Find out which planets are visible from your current location or from any location
• Perform advanced physical astronomy computations using stationary orbits, escape velocity, and Kepler's third law

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