Anyone who has played with Google Sky, the impressive tool best described as Google Maps for the night sky, will know how fascinating and unique it is, and how it’s easy to while away an hour or two exploring a region the majority of us will never see any closer.

Now, according to The Telegraph, there is the possibility Google are planning a mobile version of Sky, named Star Droid.  The application would use both the camera built into your phone plus its GPS receiver to help identify planets and stars, by overlaying their names on screen when the phone is pointed skywards.  For a lover of cool tech, this is exciting enough, but for the amateur astronomer, it becomes a truly mouth-watering prospect!

With both Google Earth and Street View readily available for several mobile phone operating systems, the adaptation of Sky seems logical, however Google have not confirmed when, or even if, we’ll see Star Droid, or which platforms it would be available on.  Of course, Android is the obvious choice, but we would expect both an iPhone and a Windows Mobile version too – we can just imagine this running on the HTC Touch HD’s screen!  We hope for more information from Google soon.