Gas Giants 4+
Software Bisque
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- Free
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Description
Do you remember the thrill you experienced the first time you saw Jupiter or Saturn through a telescope? If so, Gas Giants is a must for your iOS library!
Gas Giants lets you peer through a simulated telescope to observe Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and their major moons, as they appear right now, or at any date and time.
Amateur astronomers, teachers, scout leaders, astronomy club members or anyone who uses a telescope or binoculars to view the night sky will love Gas Giants.
Gas Giants requires an iPhone 3GS or later, or an iPod Touch 3rd Generation or later (specifically, OpenGL ES 2.0 or later) to run. All iPad models are supported.
What’s New
Version 2.03
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Sizing issues on various iOS devices addressed.
Ratings and Reviews
Small criticisms
1. The app name displays as "Gas Giants-debug". Not sure what this means or if it is functionally significant. Redownloading doesn't fix.
2. Time slider has no effect for Uranus and Neptune.
Useful but flawed
This is a useful app for amateur astronomers planning their observations -- "hey, which of Jupiter's or Saturn's moons are going to be visible tonight" -- but it has a couple of issues I hope to see resolved in a future update.
First, pinching is extremely slow. Second, on my iPad, the app crashes when you try to select a custom telescope or eyepiece. On the Software Bisque support forums I discovered a fix that worked for me: powering off and restarting the iPad. Apparently the telescope and eyepiece menus (which are huge, and include everything) are just too big.
Support is a problem in that registration at the developer's site is required to do anything, including contacting the developer or even reading posts on the support forum, which strikes me as going to great lengths to avoid getting feedback from users.
Just a great program!
I love using this program when imaging the planets :)
App Privacy
The developer, Software Bisque, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
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The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Seller
- Software Bisque, Inc.
- Size
- 60.6 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.3 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.3 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.3 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Software Bisque
- Price
- Free