Star Walk - 5 stars astronomy guideVersion: 3.2
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Developer: Vito Technology Inc.
Age rating: 4+
Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
Filed Under: Education
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Use the Star Spotter function to activate the DIGITAL COMPASS on 3GS, 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: an exclamation marks will appear on the left hand corner click on it and a list of pictures will open in front of you. To know more about the pictures click on -i- for info 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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Macworld user reviews IN DETAIL:
Love it!
This app is very fun to use and a powerful learning tool! My 7 year old son enjoys it as well. Great idea for an app! thank you!
The best astro app in App Store
There are no competitors for Star Walk in App Store.Beautiful and smooth graphics, simple and user-friendly interface, WOW factor.
Amazing!
No doubt - this is a pure plasure!Rotating planets with a time machine is a one of the best features.I liked sun very much - it lookes really natural! And recognizing constellations is a real fun - when you know not just Big Dipper, Orion and Venus!)And... it's a beautiful thing - that's really important!Waiting for updates!)
just wonderful.....
I was just waiting for it to get the digital compass function to enjoy it on my 3GS and it didn't let me down. What amazes me it is the graphic. I have never been that much into astronomy but a lot of my friends are and to be able to compete with them I decided to approach the stars with my iPhone, with this app it played the trick! Great amount of into, fun to use, fantastic graphic so smooth....my favorite: the representation of the constellations and the moon phases. Beofre buying this I actually tried other astronomy related applications (Pocket Universe and then Skygazer the free version) but this one just beat them all in my opinion. I use it with my friends, with my little brother and everybody is amazed by Star Walk and the iPhone :)
Best app regardless Astronomy!
Star Walk is one of my favorite application! Even you not Astronomy fan, but love to see on sky. Or you are Star Wars or Star Trek fan - just use it!Now I know much more about stars and can find where is my heroes ;)And Time Machine is my favorite feature!
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