Sky Map

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Sky Map
Developer(s) Google
Carnegie Mellon University
Stable release
1.9.2 [1] / 1 October 2016; 17 July 2020
Repository
Operating system Android
Type Planetarium software
License Apache License, Version 2.0
Website github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid
Sky Map in use on a Nexus One Sky Map Nexus One.jpg
Sky Map in use on a Nexus One

Sky Map is an Android planetarium software application. [2] [3]

Contents

History

Sky Map was designed and developed by a group of Google engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of their 20% time. [4]

It's now "donated and open-sourced".

Licensing

On January 20, 2012, Google announced a student development partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and released Sky Map under the Apache 2.0 open source license. [5]

Code

The project is presently available in the form of a GitHub repository. [6]

See also

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References

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