Sky Go Web Version

There are different ways on how to cast Sky Go to Chromecast. You may follow any of the methods listed below. Choose the more convenient or what works for you best. Through a Chromecast Sky Go App. Chromecast Sky Go is the newest component that the company added to its service to be able to accommodate more requests from its customers. Sky launched its Sky Go service back in July 2011, after merging its existing Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV services. Initially it was only available on iOS in terms of mobile, though it finally. Version/Build numbers are indicated in your application main screen and can be compared with the Version/Build numbers shown in the downloads page. By default, all Active Sky applications automatically notify you when a new official build is available, unless you’ve disabled this message in settings. Now carry your TV wherever you go. Watch Live TV with over 220 channels and catch your favourite shows and movies on demand from over 3500+ titles!

If you have a Sky TV subscription, you’re automatically given access to its on-demand service Sky Go, which allows you to watch programmes on a smartphone, tablet, desktop PC or laptop. But not – or at least not any more – if you’re one of the millions of people who use Chrome, Google’s hugely popular web browser.

This is because Sky Go requires a plugin called Microsoft Silverlight in order to work, and Google recently stopped supporting Silverlight as a way of displaying online interactive content, switching to the far more popular HTML 5.

As a result, Sky Go no longer works in the desktop version of the Chrome browser. Sky’s current stance on the matter is that it has no intention of changing Sky Go, meaning that for the foreseeable future it will stay inaccessible on Chrome. We’ve reached out to Sky for a comment and some clarification, but have yet to receive a response.

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How to get Sky Go working on your computer again

So, what can you do about it? Sadly, you’re powerless to get it working in Chrome again. It’s simply not going to happen until Sky decides to change something. That leaves you with two options.

1) Use a different web browser

It’s a pain, we know, particularly if you only ever use Chrome, but it’s a simple enough solution. Just go to go.sky.com as you normally would, but use a browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera or Safari. If you’re using Windows 10, be warned that the new Edge browser doesn’t support Silverlight either (yes, Microsoft’s own browser doesn’t support Microsoft’s own plugin).

2) Download Sky Go Desktop

Your other alternative is to download the dedicated desktop app. It offers largely the same functionality as the Sky Go web page with a couple of additional features. It allows you to save programmes to watch offline, and you can also access it via another internet-capable device (like your smartphone) to download programmes when you’re out and about.

features

sky

default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars
default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects
extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects
asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
constellations for 20+ different cultures
images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
realistic Milky Way
very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
the planets and their satellites

interface

a powerful zoom
time control
multilingual interface
fisheye projection for planetarium domes
spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
telescope control

visualisation

equatorial and azimuthal grids
star twinkling
shooting stars
tails of comets
iridium flares simulation
eclipse simulation
supernovae and novae simulation
3D sceneries
skinnable landscapes with spheric panorama projection

customizability

plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope control and more
ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

news

system requirements

minimal

Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.3 or OpenGL ES 2.0
512 MiB RAM
420 MiB on disk
Keyboard
Mouse, Touchpad or similar pointing device

developers

Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Graphic designer: Johan Meuris, Martín Bernardi
Developer: Alexander Wolf, Guillaume Chéreau, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot
Continuous Integration: Hans Lambermont
Tester: Khalid AlAjaji
and everyone else in the community.

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collaborate

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acknowledgment

If the Stellarium planetarium was helpful for your research work, the following acknowledgment would be appreciated:

This research has made use of the Stellarium planetarium

Zotti, G., Hoffmann, S. M., Wolf, A., Chéreau, F., & Chéreau, G. (2021). The Simulated Sky: Stellarium for Cultural Astronomy Research. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 6(2), 221–258. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.17822