Astronomy app. Calculate the precise local circumstances for a solar eclipse wit your phone!
The app takes your actual GPS, network position or a custom defined position. It predicts precise contact times for your location, i. e. beginning and end of the eclipse (C1 and C4), beginning and end of the total or annual phase (C2 and C3), time of mid eclipse and the current percentage of coverage of the solar disk. It will also show the actual eclipse view in a small graphic on the screen.
On a second screen you get full information about the local circumstances: Times, altitude, elevation, position angle and clock position of the contact events,
times of sunrise, culmination and set,
duration, magnitude, umbral depth and saros number of the eclipse.
Insert eclipses as calendar events from EclipseDroid (Menu of the local circumstances form).
The app provides powerful support for advanced eclipse observers: It displays contact times and custom defined events in absolute format and as a countdown, it can make acoustic announcements and can take snapshots at user defined times, using the phone's camera (including automatic geotagging) or cable releases via an integrated flashlight.
The app can alos launch applications at user defined times, dependent on the actual contact times.
It provides an eclipse simulation for training your observation program.
GPS and network localization is supported to update changed location. A custom position can be defined and this position will be stored. Search any location by a Google search (as an example Berlin, Germany will be proposed).
Limitations in free version: Eclipses from now to 2012, no magnitude time table in local circumstances window and no clickable link to the NASA-Eclipse maps.
Translators welcome! If you like this app and prefer it in your language, contact me! Translation is very easy.
Bugs found? Please send error report for error loclisation and removal!
Keywords: solar eclipse, solar eclipses, astronomy, observation
