Sky Map

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

Sky Map

Developer(s)	Google Carnegie Mellon University
Stable release	1.10.9[1] / 27 January 2025
Repository	github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid
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

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

• Google Sky
• Planetarium software
• Stellarium
• Star chart - map of the night sky