Telescope.Touch was born as an attempt of merging Sky Map and IPARCOS, an INDI client for Android. It features full telescope control and mobile sky chart functionality, with a completely renewed user interface and base code.
The project's main page is on GitHub
- Mobile planetarium derived from the Sky Map project
- Mount and focuser controller with directional pads and speed controls
- Database full of objects to which you can point the telescope directly from the app
- INDI control panel compatible with every device
- Languages: English, Italian and French. Sky maps are translated in almost every language.
- From Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.marcocipriani01.telescopetouch
- From the .apk file:
- Allow apps from unknown sources in the Android settings (Settings → Security → Unknown sources)
- Download and install the latest release from GitHub
- Minimum Android version: 5.0
- Prerequisite
- An INDI server must be running on the remote computer.
- You must have network access to the server.
- To achieve this, the Android device and the remote computer can be placed on your home network.
- Alternatively, you can create a wireless network with your Android device and connect the remote computer to this network.
- Connection:
- Choose the server address in the list or press on "Add server" to add a new server in the list
- Optionally, you can change the port number if you do not use the default value for the INDI protocol (7624)
- Click on "Connect"
- INDI control panel:
- Click on the gear icon in the navigation bar to display the control panel.
- Use the tabs to switch between the devices.
- The properties of the device are displayed in a list. Click on a property to edit it or show the details.
- Telescope motion:
- Press the joystick icon to display the telescope motion control panel.
- The buttons will be enabled or disabled depending on the devices features.
- If the device is not connected, the properties may not appear and the buttons will be disabled.
- Go-to database can be viewed by pressing on the toolbar icon.
- Focuser control:
- Supports speed control, focus in/out and absolute position;
You can access the sky map by pressing on the map icon in the navigation bar. There, you'll find all the usual Sky Map features with a renewed user interface and high-definition planet thumbnails.
Telescope.Touch is developed by Marco Cipriani (@marcocipriani01). More info about me on my website.
- Valentin Chevalier (@Phylastik), for the French translation and his support
- Yaakov Schefres (@theChef613), for his help in bringing the app to the Google Play Store
- Romain Fafet (@farom57): IPARCOS codebase
- Sky Map team (@sky-map-team): Sky Map codebase
- Nick Durante (@nickdurante): Spider SFTP codebase
- The IPARCOS project, GPL v3 license
- The Sky Map project, Apache 2.0 license
- Spider SFTP, GPL v3 license
- INDIForJava, LGPL v3 license
- Material icons, Apache 2.0 license
- Telescope icon, Flaticon License
- Touch icon, Flaticon License
- Compass by iutinvg, MIT License
The licenses for each software library used in the project can be found in the app (About this app > menu > Open-source Licenses)