>>2766720>Your device isn't compatible with this version.Fuck me for not getting a new phone every couple of years, I guess...
Anyway, I did some digging. Installed only what was under 50MB since I figured anything larger would be either bloated or poorly optimized. Some prompted me to download a database upon launch and wouldn't let me use the app otherwise, so I got rid of them. What I was left with in the ned was Sky Map and SkEye.
Both feel like they were made to rely more on the automatic Augmented Reality mode and fancy sensors to have you just point your phone at the sky in some direction and let the app do the rest. But I don't have a phone that sophisticated nor would I want to use it like that. Manual mode does work but it's kind of cumbersome and over complicated. Mainly because you have full range of rotation, as if you're a horizon-less astronaut floating in space that can rotate in any direction, including your own Z-axis, without actually knowing which direction is which, not someone on the ground that just looks left, right and up, as in timeanddate's star map. Maybe this is useful in conjunction with telescopes or anticipating from where stars not yet visible will pop up, I don't know.
Sky Map is simpler, shows only the bigger bodies and has fewer settings to catch your teeth in. But for whatever reason it's inverted so I have to keep my phone upside down to use it. That might just be me, though. SkEye is a lot more dense and fully customizable but once you get the hang of things and get past the steep learning, it works. At some points there's almost too much info displayed but nearly everything has an opacity meter so you can basically hide whatever you're not interested in or can't see with the naked eye anyway. So that's that.
