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Star Walk - 5 stars astronomy guideVersion: 3.2

Developer: Vito Technology Inc.

Age rating: 4+

Rating Description

4+ Applications in this category contain no objectionable material.

9+ Applications in this category may contain mild or infrequent occurrences of cartoon, fantasy or realistic violence, and infrequent or mild mature, suggestive, or horror-themed content which may not be suitable for children under the age of 9.

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Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Filed Under: Education

Celebrate Star Walk first birthday on App Store starting the discovery of all stars, planets, constellations. Star Walk is the perfect tool for anyone who is interested in stargazing, for amateur or more professional astronomers. Make Star Walk your virtual astronomy guide and take advantage of the great interface and all the extra features.

- on Apple App Store What's Hot
- top 10 most beautiful iPhone&iPod Touch apps at CultofMac
- 4.5/5 for 148apps.com

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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