Space Apps for Android: Discover the Best Astronomy and Space Apps

This book saves you time and effort by reviewing a selection of the best or most useful apps for discovering the universe and following space exploration. It allows you to find your way around these apps and provides usage tips and tricks. You’ll discover planetariums and sky maps, interactive planetary globes and atlases, satellite pass predictors, space flight simulators, and more. These apps will help you observe the sky, spot the International Space Station and artificial satellites, and understand the universe.

The Google Play Store has millions of Android apps for all sorts of application domains and tasks. And there are many great astronomy and space apps buried in there.

Learn what the best astronomy and space apps for Android do and how to get the most out of them. Discover the variety of apps for observing the sky, learning about the universe, and keeping up with space exploration.

For each of the dozens of featured apps you’ll get a summary of what it does, a list of the major features, an overview of the usage, and valuable tips. You’ll also learn whether and how the apps work on Chromebooks and other desktop Chrome OS devices.

Space Apps for Android combines in a single resource information and insight on apps that often come with little or no documentation. It’s your encyclopedia of space apps.

Featured on Google+

The book is based and expands on the author’s Space Apps for Android: Mobile space and astronomy collection that reached over 240,000 followers on Google+ and was featured by Google.

Who the book is for

Space Apps for Android is for amateur astronomers, space enthusiasts and anyone with basic familiarity with astronomy and space. It may be useful also to educators as a guide to apps they can use in their astronomy teaching and lab activities.

A work in-progress

This book is a work in-progress based on the Lean Publishing process, not a finished book. As I write more and update the book, the price will go up. But, if you buy the book, the price won’t go up for you and you’ll get for free all future updates.

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About the author

I have been working in astronomy and space outreach and education since the early 1980s. I got my first Android device in 2009, and that's also when I started poring over the Play Store for astronomy and space apps (spoiler: there were just a couple). I'm still trying new apps and sharing my experience in this book.

Questions?

Email me at info@paoloamoroso.com

Contents

• Prefare
• Introduction
• About the Author
• The Solar System
•   Earth Observation
•   The Moon
•   The Sun
•   The Planets
•   Meteors
•   Asteroids and Comets
• The Universe
•   The Stars
•   Extrasolar Planets
•   Observation of the Universe
•   Exploration of the Universe
• Space Exploration
•   Space Launches
•   International Space Station
•   Satellite Observation and Tracking
•   Navigation Satellites
•   Space Agencies
•   Space Flight Simulators
• Tools
•   Planetariums and Sky Maps
•   Ephemeris and Astronomical Phenomena
•   Space Images
•   Search Engines and Databases
•   Astronomy Education and Learning
•   Space News
•   Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
•   History of Astronomy
• Appendices
•   Release Notes