NGC Mate
Find and sort astronomical (NGC/IC) objects in seconds with ease.
Find and sort astronomical (NGC/IC) objects in seconds with ease.NGC Mate is a simple database application which contains the full revised New General and Index Catalog of astronomical objects. Its main power is the search and sort capability with which it lets you find the objects you want to observe. You can make your nights observing list in seconds with ease. It contains links to the Messier, Caldwell and Herschel 400 objects as well. As a vivid astronomer you can spend more time beside you telescope and let the search be done by NGC Mate.In the details page you will get information about:• catalog (including Messier, Caldwell and Herschel 400 object numbers)• common name• type and subtype• constellation• RA, Dec• visual magnitude• size and position angle• visibility, and transit timeThe application can also download images of objects (basically areas around coordinates) from the Internet, if you have network access. All downloaded images are stored locally in the devices memory, so a second download or network access is not required, until you wipe the cached images from the memory.Please have a look at our video tutorial to see how easy it is to operate the application.
Find and sort astronomical (NGC/IC) objects in seconds with ease.NGC Mate is a simple database application which contains the full revised New General and Index Catalog of astronomical objects. Its main power is the search and sort capability with which it lets you find the objects you want to observe. You can make your nights observing list in seconds with ease. It contains links to the Messier, Caldwell and Herschel 400 objects as well. As a vivid astronomer you can spend more time beside you telescope and let the search be done by NGC Mate.In the details page you will get information about:• catalog (including Messier, Caldwell and Herschel 400 object numbers)• common name• type and subtype• constellation• RA, Dec• visual magnitude• size and position angle• visibility, and transit timeThe application can also download images of objects (basically areas around coordinates) from the Internet, if you have network access. All downloaded images are stored locally in the devices memory, so a second download or network access is not required, until you wipe the cached images from the memory.Please have a look at our video tutorial to see how easy it is to operate the application.
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App to seems to be broken, as unable to activate any other screens due to the lack of the menu button on Samsung S6.
On my Samsung S7 soon to be S9 it seems the search bar is not available so cannot use the app. Fix this or advise for use on Samsung phones and it's a great app.
I want to use this app so badly however on my HTCM9 the search (bottom) buttons aren't available. I'm not going to refund it in hopes that he fixes it. Manually searching through the index works but defeats the purpose.
Nightmode will be very good
Almost useless as a serious observation tool. Lacks night color (a necessity to maintain night vision!! ) and a night observation list. Some searches return zero hits when there should be many. Unable to search for one particular cat#.
Awesome app! Great for backyard astronomers who are looking for deep sky objects. The search feature is brilliant: you can enter you different parameters ranging from type of object, catalog, constellation, brightness, etc. Once you get the list, you can download an image of selected objects. The only drawback is that there isn't a night sky mode but that is a minor quibble considering how much this app provides!
Thanks tech-head nice app I will use it often. Only one suggestion could you add a red light mode?
Very useful app. Would give it five stars if it had couple of important features: 1. Common name can be shown in the list itself. Saves a lot of time. 2. Auto-suggest feature for common names. Finding stars should not be a puzzle, it should have been as simple as finding other stuff.
Really useful app