Sky Map
Sky Map is an Android planetarium software application.[2][3] It was designed and developed by a group of Google engineers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of their 20% time,[4] and is now "donated and open-sourced", available as a GitHub repository.[5]
Licensing
[edit]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.[6]
See also
[edit]- Google Sky
- Planetarium software
- Stellarium
- Star chart - map of the night sky
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sky Map release 2.0.0". GitHub. 2 September 2026. Retrieved 3 September 2026.
- ↑ Temperton, James (2011-11-22). "Google Sky Map for Android helps you explore the universe". Computeractive. Incisive Media. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- ↑ Baig, Edward C. (2010-11-17). "Google Sky Map Android app travels through time". USA Today. ABC News. Archived from the original on 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- ↑ Walker-Morgan, Dj (2012-01-23). "Google's Sky Map for Android now open source". The H. Archived from the original on 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- ↑ "stardroid". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
- ↑ Taylor, John; Serafini, Kevin (2012-01-20). "Open-sourcing Sky Map and collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University". Research @ Google. Retrieved 2013-10-23.