Description
A complete planetarium in your hand. A high quality interactive and ergonomic map, with 350 000 stars, now fitted with many deep sky images.
With the iPhone 3GS compass, Starmap displays the exact portion of the sky you are pointing at. Hold the device in your line of vision and discover the map smoothly scanning the sky as you move.
Starmap is a powerful sky navigation tool, written by a professional of the field. Its design avoids gadget ornaments on purpose and is aimed at helping real observation.
A complete video of Starmap’s features is available on the support website. Do not hesitate to contact the author before purchasing Starmap.
IMPORTANT: take a look at Starmap PRO, offering the most complete celestial objects catalogues for the iPhone, fitted with functions dedicated to astronomers.
FEATURES:
- 350 000 visible stars (SAO catalog up to magnitude 12).
- 200 main stars with names, kinds and complete descriptions.
- 150 galaxies, clusters and nebulae (Messier catalog, main NGC/IC).
- Deep sky objects images with StarmapShare.com.
- Tonight’s best selection: the night overview in one glance.
- Time animation.
- Lunar calendar.
- Constellation boundaries.
- Automatic viewpoint with the accelerometer and the compass (3GS).
- Pinch and zoom for more details.
- Finder arrow for localizing objects.
- Smooth and anti aliased graphics.
- Adjust stars and the sky brightness to match your exact observation conditions.
- Full coordinates, ecliptic, celestial equator.
- Complete ephemeris, including moon phases and planet satellites views.
- 50 asteroids and dwarf planets.
- Touching the map bring up info panels.
- Full night vision mode.
- Shooting stars zones.
- GPS support and custom user locations.
- Map colors can be adjusted for the comfort of your eyes.
What's New In Version 2.0.3
- Solving spurious crashes at launch under iOs4
- Solving some catalog issues
- Revised localization in Norwegian
Customer Reviews
Money very well spent.
This is an excellant stellar map for amature astronomers, to professionals, of for just some good backyard star gazing. It will show you just about anything you want to see from constellations, to planets, and deep sky objects (meisser catalong) Further more, it is the only app I've found that will point out all the meteor showers throughout the year whether it's only 2 an hour or 120. This app is so easy and quick to use, anybody can feel like an observatory level astronomer. I would suggest to the developers to possibly include in app wiki links to various objects for further learning. I've always been a savvy amature astonomer, but this app has greatly expanded my knowledge of the heaven and the gems with in.
Update!!!
3 cuz after paying the money they haven't even updated the graphics for the iPhone 4
Still My Favorite App...
I was hesitant at buying Starmap because of the price, especially with other star programs out there that are less expensive. After having it and using it for almost a year, I've got to say it's still my favorite app by far. I still find myself sitting outside at night looking at the sky and using Starmap to locate stars and constellations. It's very user-friendly and although there are so many ways to personalize the settings (which is fun, too), it's just as easy to download it and use the default settings. You'll never get tired of it, and neither will the friends you show it to!
- $11.99
- Category: Education
- Updated:Jul 07, 2010
- Current Version:2.0.3
- 2.0.3 (iOS 4.0 Tested)
- 21.0 MB
- Languages:English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller:Fruduric Descamps
- © 2008 Frederic Descamps
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later.
