Learn more about man-made Satellites

This app is an easy to use way to learn more about some of the largest and brightest satellites in orbit around the Earth.

It finds your location using your devices geo location services, and then calculates the position of satellites, updating them frequently.

Click on a satellite and get more information on it, including many photos, and data on upcoming passes when you may be able to view it. You can even set alerts.

You can view the satellites path from your position on earth, as an orbit around a 3d manipulate blue globe, as a path on a 2d map of earth, or from the near the satellite itself, showing a 3d rendering of it, simulating the lighting angle from the Sun.

When using the sky view, the app also draws constellations and labels brighter stars and planets so you can get your bearings.

The app also has a "Night Vision" mode that turns the screen red to help preserve your night vision.

As an amateur astronomer, I can use this app to figure out what that satellite that I just saw was, or to plan for observing and photographing passes by the International Space Station.

For the casual night sky stargazer, or space technology buff, the information provided on the satellites would be really interesting.

I really recommend this app. Theres really nothing like it out there.

Ric-Ola about Satellite Safari, v1.0