Starcross is an astronomical app for iOS, in which you can gaze stars, planets and constellations easily according to their actual Geolocation.
The basic concept of is, first of all the user gives the access to the Location. After calculating the user's location, it works on three basic factors:
- right ascension.
- declination.
- in distance from the Keplerian formulation.
We use these three main parameters to calculate the user's location and then show the heavenly bodies' locations and references in the app accordingly.
The following goals were achieved during GSoC 2018:
The whole app was implemented from scratch with following features-
- Icon of the App.
- Splash Screen of the app.
- Location Permission.
- Rendered Planets according to their actual geolocation.
- Rendered other Stars and Constellations as per their location.
- Enabled Night mode.
- Enabled background music for stargazing.
- Enabled manual mode.
- Enabled Zoom-in Zoom-out mode.
- Made An option to remove background and open camera to have VR like feel.
- Enabled an option to click a screenshot and easily share to anyone, anywhere.
- Enabled an option to view detailed information about various heavenly bodies.
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