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Comment by HPsquared

1 day ago

Smartphones have the huge advantage of direction sensors (3D magnetometer and gyro). I remember using apps like Google sky map (or something like that) way back in 2011 to look at satellites and planets.

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AkshatJ27  12 hours ago

Not sure if this is the app you were referring to, But Stellarium does exactly what you're describing.

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