Star Walk - 5 stars astronomy guide
By Vito Technology Inc.
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Description
***Featured by Apple - Best Apps of 2009!***
For your kids who are eager to learn, indispensable for both amateurs and professionals, Star Walk will guide you through the night sky in style.
Star Walk is your personal planetarium that can answer all your curiosities about the sky! For anyone who is interested in stargazing, amateurs or more professional Star Walk makes discovering more than 9,000 stars, planets, constellations, messiers as beautiful and easy as it has never been before!
Use the Star Spotter function to activate the DIGITAL COMPASS on 3GS only, find your orientation and you will see the sky in front of you in real-time. You can pan the iPhone’s display and watch the stars scroll around.
ATTENTION:
for iPod Touch users please use manual selection of locations if Wifi is not available.
If you have concerns or feedback about this or anything else please get in contact with us at support@vitotechnology.com, follow us on twitter.com/starwalk or our facebook group page.
Star Walk features and how to use them:
PICTURE of the DAY: a push notification will appear on the icon to tell you there is a new picture to watch. Go to the left hand corner click on it, select button with exclamation marks and a list of pictures will open in front of you. To know more about the pictures click on -i- on the top right hand corner.
HELP GUIDE: for any doubt on how to use the Digital Compass, the Time Machine, Location Selection and to get in contact with us for any suggestions or concerns click on -?- on the top right corner.
VIEW from the EARTH:
Automatic and manual selection of locations on a 3D globe.
DIGITAL COMPASS
If you have an iPhone 3GS tilt your phone and the ''Star Spotter'' function will be activated, a live representation of what you see in the sky will appear on your display and the sky will start following your movements right, left, up and down.
TIME MACHINE: click on the clock icon and date and time to watch the sky tonight or in a year time.
MOON PHASES: select the moon, click on -i - symbol to enlarge the image and start the clock to watch moon phases.
Wikipedia LINKS: select one celestial corpse and click on the - i - icon to activate the magnifier and read main information about it. To know more click on the -w - icon at the bottom of the table ad the wikipedia page will open up
SETTINGS: with the bottom right icon you are given different options. You can change the screen with night mode, select brightness, put sounds on or off, find and select location and start you list of favorites. Here the -!- will indicate presence of new pictures.
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Star Walk reviewed:
''This is the best stargazing iPhone application I have come across.'' Matt Sawyers, The iPhone Blog - 2009
''Star Walk is probably the prettiest of the astronomy guides available for the iPhone and iPod touch.'' TUAW -2009
"I’ve been playing with Star Walk for a couple weeks now and it’s definitely become a favorite app to use for stargazing as well as to show off some of my iPhone’s capabilities to friends and curious strangers." cultofmac favorites - 2009
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What's New in Version 3.6.1
Minor bugs fixed
Customer Reviews
The perfect companion for eyes
If you have eyes, it would be a great idea to buy this application. It is beautiful, and the wonderful science fiction touches make looking at stars even more fun. I can't recommend this enough, it's fast, fluid, easy on the eyes - even easier on red mode - and if you are like me and are concerned that some day you travel backwards in time and you want something to blow the minds off primitive scientists, this is it. The developers keep on adding features and objects. The only thing I could think to improve it is to include some kind of newbie tour guide to help you get started with binoculars or a first telescope. Furthermore, I have recovered from several minor disorders from using it which makes me think that it might contain the secret of eternal life.
Awesome
Great app for when using telescope since the Map changes in real time or you can ffw to a specific time. However I couldnt set a location as a default so i have to set to melbourne every time i load the app. How about being able to set to specific long/lat. Also it would be cool if there is an option to allow for atmosphere. So it represents real life as close as possible. Able to tell show when the sun is going to set/rise.
Star walk is a quality app easy to use and no lag it. also used many features found in the PC program stellarium.
Great, fantastic - needs moons of Jupiter (please?) and magnitude options
Great for seeing the night sky - any place, any time, any angle! Wonderful for 'what is that bright star?' and 'where is that constellation?" Amazing fluid graphics. Focus on one object and see how it moves in relation to others. Stunning! Two minor things but important things could be improved - I miss not being able to see the moons of Jupiter - disappointing that they don't appear in a search either so no photos. Also it would be great to have a show more / show fewer stars ie an intuitive way to limit the magnitude displayed so that only the brightest are visible.
- Category: Education
- Updated 17 February 2010
- Current Version: 3.6.1
- 29.1 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish
- Seller: Vito Technology Inc.
- © 2008 Vito Technology Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
