Sideralis

Sideralis is a small and free midlet application which displays a map of the stars on your mobile phone. In other words a sky chart for mobile phones.

This is an equivalent to Stellarium or KStar but on your mobile phone.

Your mobile should support MIDP2.0 and CLDC1.1, be up to date and have enough internal memory. Please have a look at the following page to know what your mobile supports: J2ME Devices. Please see bottom of this page to get a list of tested phones.

Here is a short video (v1.0.0) about this midlet.

Sources are available on demand.

Features:

• A lot of different objects:

  • More than 1000 stars.
  • More than 100 Messier objects
  • Constellations drawing
  • 5 planets: Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.
  • Sun and Moon.
• 3 different views :

  • Horizontal view.
  • Zenith view.
  • Night view
• Information on all objects:

  • Name.
  • Magnitude
  • Distance
  • Azimuth
  • Right Ascension
  • Declinaison
  • Height
• Current time or any time can be chosen.
• Selection of location by:
  

  • Entering latitude and longitude
  • Selecting a city among more than 80 cities
  • Selection on a globe
  • GPS (for mobile supporting it)
• Small dictionary available giving some interesting information about universe and constellations
• Miscelleanous:
  

  • Search function
  • Available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German and Polish languages

Sideralis has been tested on these phones and it worked: