GoISSWatch ISS Tracking for Android

This used to be my favorite app for tracking the ISS. The app just crashes now as soon as it’s opened. It’s been years since there was an update, and I’m hoping this doesn’t mean the app has been abandoned by the developers. Holding out hope it will be fixed!

I’ve been using GoISSWatch for some time now. Support is much better than expected. Recently the app failed to start properly, only to show for a few seconds before disappearing. The developer got back to me immediately with very specific instructions on how to fully delete and reinstall. It turns out that IOS 14.2 has an offload app option that may prevent a full delete before reinstall. Thanks Richard

I loved this app. It told me every time the ISS was going over my city. It’s exciting to see that bright light in the sky, moving so rapidly. Suddenly I stopped getting the notices. I deleted the app, now I have reinstalled it. I hope it give me my views of the Space Station back.

GOOD APP, BUT TWO BIG PROBLEMS HAVE RETURNED Posted: Saturday, August 24, 2019 The app, again, shows the wrong date and day of the week & no longer automatically updates ISS passes! 1) For example, it says that today is Friday, August 23! It claims that the next pass is Sunday, August 25, but that’s actually happening on Monday, August 26! This is an incredibly bad error — and such a basic issue — for a satellite app! 2) The passes NO longer update automatically. One is forced to MANUALLY tap World (or Sky) view, then Passes to get a SINGLE DAY’S worth of passes! Then, to get another day, one has to that again! And, so on, and so forth. Irritating! Pull down to refresh the list of passes no longer works, either! OLD REVIEW — October 7, 2018 Note: Appreciate the developers' reply but, in fact, there is a refresh control! (Surprised you don't know that about your OWN app!) If you pull down the pass list, it used to calculate and show the passes for the next several days. If you wanted to see more days, just drag up. That no longer works, however, on the iPod Touch 6G under iOS 11. See later on. GOOD FEATURES This is one of the best ISS apps. It lists upcoming ISS passes, locates the ISS on a globe view, provides a night sky view, etc. It's a very good app, but there are problems as noted. Read on for the highlights, a description of the problems, and suggestions. IMPROVEMENTS THEY MADE! The developers have been listening to feedback! ISS passes are now shown on a single screen. This is a major improvement in usability. (You used to have to manually step through, a day at a time, which was slow, went to a new screen, and the displayed flashed!) I do wish, though, that it would calculate many passes at once; instead, one has to scroll down and still wait a bit for the next pass to show up in the list! In the good news department, the developers provide a button for the previous day, if you want to check on yesterday's passes! The accuracy problems (days, times of passes) seem to have been finally fixed, too! THE PROBLEM IS BACK! They also fixed a problem (one version earlier) with alerts where they used to be ON by default and you had to *manually* turn each one of them OFF. Now, they are OFF by default and that makes a HUGE difference (no longer any worries about being unexpectedly awakened in the middle of the night!). GREAT FEATURE: SKY VIEW It's great to tap on an upcoming pass and see a pop-up sky map showing the ISS pass through the stars. MAJOR PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS PASSES NO LONGER UPDATE! A major problem as of September 22, 2018! When one pulls down the pass list on an iPod Touch 6G, the app no longer updates the ISS passes! You have to switch to another view first, e.g. World, and then return to passes to get GoISSWatch do its calculations and show the next day's passes. Even worse, it only updates one day or night at a time, so you have to keep switching views and returning to Passes. Before you could just pull down the pass list and it would update several days at a time! That fortunately still work on the Mobile. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP! SKY VIEW ISSUE In addition, the Sky Views need major improvements. The cardinal directions E and W are reversed from how they are in virtually every other sky charting and satellite app out there! East is on the right and West on the left. Now, this works if the ISS is crossing the sky from West to North and you are facing North. But today, we had an ISS pass going from West to South. Alas, the result was that the ISS is shown moving in the *opposite* direction from what actually happens in the sky! There is no setting to switch the orientation. I tried moving the sky view display through the nadir and also the zenith--no change, no luck. I checked my location--it's correct, so it's not a hemisphere problem. TIP: if you rotate the Mobile, holding it with the home button at the top, you can have the southern (West to East) passes display correctly! Another issue: At low brightness, the cardinal point designations-- N, E, S, and W--are not legible! Their blue coloring faded into the background. Furthermore, on the Mobile, tapping on a pass opens up a small chart in the upper left corner that's hard to read. I think they simply brought over the one from the Android version. It should be larger or even full screen. (On the Android, we should be able to tap on the sky view and zoom in.) The Sky View also could use constellation lines to help observers figure out where the ISS is going to be traveling! Each pass has an alarm clock symbol--that makes it look like they are on! The icon needs changing-- perhaps an alarm clock with a slash through it?! The alerts could use another option--e.g., an hour before time of the ISS pass. Sometimes 30 minutes is NOT enough time to get one's household and family organized--delay dinner, put on coats and boots, get oriented to the sky, etc. RECOMMENDATION FOR OTHER USERS Explore your current astro apps as many have little known or buried satellite features! For example, Sky Safari Plus can show you the ISS (and other satellites) with their path among the constellations --and you can zoom in, too. In looking at my other apps, I also discovered that Starmap 3D+ (not to be confused with Starmap2 or Starmap Pro by a different developer) provides a full list of passes on one page -- great-- and mini sky charts, to boot! CONCLUSION Bottom line: GOISSWATCH is a good app for catching ISS passes! Definitely download this and give it a whirl.

tant de spécifications, incluant toutes les spécifications actuelles et à jour de la station spatiale, ne pourraient être meilleures! A des prédictions à la seconde, et précis!