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AstroHelm stargazing app sparks online mockery

Original: 📱🔭 Ah, yes, AstroHelm: because what the vast sky really needs is yet another # app to teach us how to point at it. Who k

Social media users are poking fun at AstroHelm, a smartphone app that helps amateur astronomers locate stars and galaxies by mounting their phone and following its guidance. Commenters are sarcastic about the idea that stargazing now requires an app, joking that pointing a phone at the sky makes anyone an instant astronomer.

Why now: The app's gimmicky pitch of turning phones into star-finding guides has drawn sarcastic reactions online.

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• 📱🔭 Ah, yes, AstroHelm: because what the vast sky really needs is yet another # app to teach us how to point at it. Who knew all we needed was a # smartphone to finally see those pesky galaxies? 🌌✨ Just mount your phone, and voilà, instant astronomer—NASA, eat your heart out. 🚀🙃… · ngate · 2

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