Star Walk - Vito Technology Inc.
Price: $4.99
Category: Education
Release Date: 2009-08-22
Description:Discover stars, planets, constellations and more with Star Walk. For all astronomy beginners or amateurs this is the most amazing, high quality, dynamic and realistic stargazing guide on earth. It simply makes astronomy easy for everybody. Ever thought of using it for a romantic night out, for your science essays and for wow your friends? Try and show them the universe in your hands. ***This is the best star-gazing application I have come across for the iPhone***Matt Sawyers at The iPhone Blog. Star Walk features and how to use them: VIEW from the EARTH: SW with automatic and manual selection of locations directly on the globe. Touch it, spin it and find where you want to be to observe the sky tonight. 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 whether you move up or down, left or right. In order to stop the function simply touch the display. TIME MACHINE: click on the clock icon and date and time will be displayed. Slide your finger on the hours and the sky will start moving accordingly. Touch year, month and time and change depending on what you want to see, the display will adapt accordingly to show you how stars and planets were aligned at that time. MOON PHASES: select the moon with the touch of your finger, click on -i - symbol to enlarge the image and start the clock to watch moon phases. You can do the same with all other planets and stars. 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 STAR SPOTTER: if you can't find the star, planet or constellation you are interested in, click on the magnifier symbol and a list of all of them will appear, select it and the display will locate it for you. HELP GUIDE: for any doubt on how to use the ''Star Spotter'' function or the Time Machine click on - ? - menu 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. Get in contact with us, we welcome your feedbacks, you can find us on twitter.com/starwalk or http://www.facebook.com/pages/StarWalk/117025658807 ==== Star Walk reviewed: ''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 ==== © 2008 Vito Technology Inc. |
