Star Chart
By Feel Great Publishing Limited
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Description
*** The number 1 best selling educational app in Japan and France. Download and find out why! ***
Now you can have a virtual star chart in your pocket! Look through the eyes of your iPhone* to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.
All you have to do is point your iPhone/iPad* at the sky and Star Chart will tell you exactly what you are looking at.
Using state of the art GPS technology, an accurate 3D universe, and all of the latest high tech functionality, Star Chart calculates – in real time - the current location of every star and planet visible from Earth and shows you precisely where they are; even in broad daylight!
Want to know what that bright star is called? Point your device at it – you might just find out it’s a planet!
Want to know what the night sky looks like to people on the other side of the earth? Well just point your device down!
Want to know where your star sign is in the sky? Star Chart will tell you all this and more.
Star Charts features include:
- Just point and view. No need to scroll around the screen to find out what you are looking at*.
- Alternatively, look around the sky using finger gestures – perfect for armchair astronomers!
- Supports dynamic device orientation viewing. Allows you to view the night sky whilst holding your iPhone/iPad at any angle.
- Accurately depicts all the visible stars of the northern and southern hemispheres - a total of over 5000 stars!
- Displays all the planets of the solar system, plus the sun and the moon.
- Displays all 88 constellations, with constellation imagery based on the beautiful artwork by 15th century astronomer Johannes Hevelius.
- Includes the complete Messier catalogue of exotic deep sky objects.
- Tap on anything in the sky and get the facts on what you are looking at, including distance and brightness.
- Very powerful zoom function, lets you view the sky in extra detail, using intuitive finger gestures.
- Fully configurable. Star Chart displays only the sky objects that you are interested in.
- Allows you to view the sky underneath the horizon (unlike other more expensive applications). So now you can see where the sun is, even at night!
- Manually set your location to find out what the sky looks like from anywhere in the world.
So point your iPhone/iPad at the sky and see what's out there!
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Escapist Games will update Star Chart regularly, so please send us your feedback and features requests to starchart@escapistgames.com.
And thanks for all your feedback so far!
*Augmented Reality mode available on iPhone 3Gs / 4 & iPad, as this feature requires a built-in compass. Manual scrolling is supported on all other devices.
Follow Star Chart on Twitter: StarChartApp - twitter.com/StarChartApp
Also follow our latest developments! twitter.com/EscapistGames
What's New in Version 1.86
- Altitude and Azimuth readouts for all sky objects.
- Fixed some minor bugs introduced in the last version:
- Timeshift feature now works properly whilst in AR mode.
- Off screen arrow points in the right direction again, regardless of interface orientation.
Customer Reviews
Gazer
This AP works poorly on my IPod touch. It is nearly impossible to locate yourself by panning your finger across the screen.
Stellar...if changes are made
If I were rating this strictly as an educational tool, it would definitely get 5 stars. However, as an amateur astronomer, I can only give it 3 right now. In night mode, when you search for something, you are immediately blinded by "real" color and bright images; why is this also not red/black? It's the same thing if you choose to look at the settings while in night mode...you get bright whites and whatnot. If I want to keep my night vision, I can't do either of these things. If night mode is selected, EVERYTHING should be red/black. For the most part, this is a good app, but make these changes and it will be stellar (pun intended).
Jeff
I want my money back!!
I want my money back!!!!
- $2.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Apr 05, 2011
- Version: 1.86
- Size: 11.5 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
- Seller: Feel Great Publishing Limited
- © 2011 Chris Walley
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
