ESO Top 100
By European Southern Observatory (ESO)
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Description
Feel the Universe at your fingertips and access a universe of knowledge with the ESO Top 100 Images, which brings users a selection of the best astronomy images taken by a suite of the world’s most advanced ground-based telescopes from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Astonishing views of distant galaxies and nebulae, amazing night-sky landscapes, first-class telescopes with lasers shooting into the sky transform the iPad into an exciting window to the Universe.
Features:
- The 100 most astonishing astronomy images from ESO
- Ready to use as wallpapers.
- Slideshow play mode, with chill-out music!
- Captions with additional information just a tap away.
The ESO Top 100 Images app is an open source app designed and developed by ESO with Víctor R. Ruiz (linotipo.es). The project coordinator is Lars Holm Nielsen (ESO). The app includes creative commons music from the Greek group Zero Project. http://zero-project.gr/
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Customer Reviews
Great images but not a flawless app
A simple, but well done, app highlighting the top 100 images from the ESO.
Good: No frills app...they let the images speak for themselves.
Great: All of the images can be copied to your iPad images folder for use as wallpaper, etc.
Bad: 4 of the 100 images are blank/black. It appears that they did not download for some reason. I uninstalled and reinstalled and got the same thing.
Lame: Not 100% photography. A number of these "top images" are "an artists vision" of exoplanets, moons, etc. Nice, but I would have expected all authentic imagery.
Worth keeping: Yes.
More Universe Less Buildings
Images of the universe and nebulas are great, way to many of domes on Earth. Missing images, just black screen.
Problems with ESO Top 100
I'm writing this as of 02/08/12. Based on the latest Carina Nebula photo release, I downloaded this app, but I'm afraid I'm disappointed.
After tapping the arrow (upper right), I get to the slide show which shows a new photo every 5+sec or so along with some airy music. But I have no control to advance to the next slide, or to put a given slide on hold. I figured if I touched the screen I'd get some kind of control panel, but I get thrown back to the first page! So, without any slide descriptions or any other controls, this app is worthless!
I sent it back to the App Store! Let me know if there's a fix in the works. Otherwise, this one's assigned to the scrap heap. And it's really too bad because the images are breathtaking!
- Free
- Category: Education
- Released: Mar 25, 2011
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 45.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: ESO European Southern Observatory
- © European Southern Observatory & Victor R. Ruiz
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
