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Star Walk:Find Stars & Planets app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 2512 ratings )
Entertainment Education
Developer: Vito Technology Inc.
Free
Current version: 7.4.0, last update: 8 months ago
First release : 05 Nov 2008
App size: 183.9 Mb

Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your interactive guide to the night sky, following your every movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over 200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information.

***Over 10 million users! Winner of Apple Design Award 2010***

“Star Walk is a remarkably in-depth and detailed astronomy app. Theres so much you can do with this app” - Common sense media

“Star Walk is the best stargazing application I have come across for the iPhone. Many of the features found within the application cannot be found in any others! This is one of the best developed and executed applications I have seen to hit the app store.” - iMore

“This app brings the old paper star chart into the smartphone age, and makes exploring the night sky easily accessible to everyone.” - Soggy Astronomer

Duran Durans keyboard Nick Rhodes mentions Star Walk as his favourite app:

“It’s brilliant, and if you’re ever somewhere with a clear sky and no light pollution, it’s a revelation. It’s beautifully designed and makes clever use of the available technology. I’m fascinated by astronomy, but even if you’re not, give this a go.”

Key features:

• Night sky map with thousands of stars, constellations and other sky objects.
• Real-time tracking of celestial bodies.
• Augmented reality sky view.
• Deep sky objects to explore in detail.
• Night mode.
• Extensive information about all sky objects.
• The ability to travel in time with “Time machine”
• Astronomical calendar with various celestial events.
• Stunning space pictures in “Picture of the Day”.
• “Sky Live” section with info about the moon phases, the amount of daylight, the visibility of the planets, etc.

Astronomical calendar, deep space objects, meteor showers, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and satellites are available through the STAR WALK PLUS subscription.

‣ Launch the app and point your device at the night sky - youll see the stars, planets, satellites, and constellations in their proper place from your location. As you move your device, the star map updates in real time.*

‣ Every object you tap has an (i) next to its name, tap it to access some information.

‣ A scale on right is the “Time machine”, slide it to explore the map of the night sky of tomorrow or years ago.

‣ A calendar of celestial events will make sure you never miss anything interesting.

‣ Tap Augmented Reality icon in the upper right corner to add the image from your camera to your sky view.

‣ Use Night Mode to go easy on your eyes and preserve night vision when exploring the Universe.

‣ Star Walk is your personal planetarium. Project to a big screen with no picture quality loss.

*This feature (Star Spotter) is available for devices with digital compass. If your device does not have the digital compass, you can use your fingers to change the view of the sky map.

Links:
http://www.facebook.com/StarWalkApp
http://twitter.com/starwalk

STAR WALK PLUS removes ads from the app and gives you access to the calendar with astronomical events, deep space objects, meteor showers, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and satellites. It offers a one-week free trial followed by an auto-renewing subscription.

Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the users Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

Terms of use: http://vitotechnology.com/terms-of-use.html

Start your best stargazing experience right now!

Pros and cons of Star Walk:Find Stars & Planets app for iPhone and iPad

Star Walk:Find Stars & Planets app good for

Dear Vito, I bought one of the first versions of Star Walk, when I had an iPhone 3Gs. Yesterday I acquired an iPhone 5. When I turned Star Walk again, and saw the Match the Skies and soft navigation, I have to tell you: You achieved the state of the art. Congratulations!!
This app is super easy to use yet powerful and great fun. Definitely worth the price, thank you very much.
Iam absolutely happy with this app. Its nice to look at, fast, stable and reliable. Perfect app which is worth each cent. Got some astronomy apps, this one rules.
very well made! especially the sound / music design and interface. keep it up
Beautiful app! Offline, accurate, search function for all celestial bodies, time warp, real time movement of objects and a great info database for everything there is! Love it! :D
Love this app on my phone and iPad. Only wish it had the new visible Nova Delphini 2013.

Some bad moments

I bought this app for my iPhone, and it is good. But now I cant use it in my iPad!!! Have to buy it AGAIN if want to use in iPad for the bigger screen... Shame
It crashes on startup now. All I see is "Vito Technology" and then the app exits.
They offer their outdated version as a sale item for Black Friday. How Pooch!!!
Ive never used this app very often but when I DID (emphasis on the past tense here) it was awesome. It used to just magically calibrate the simulation to the real sky by giving your phone a few figure-8 flicks when opening the app, now you have to manually "calibrate" and I can only move the sim screen right or left which is basically useless because I NEED to match it to the moon because I dont KNOW, and cant locate any other recognizable stars/celestial formations myself in order to calibrate it... which is kind of the whole point of this app. So its basically useless now unless you just want to flick around a night sky sim on your phone. Who needs a real sky anyways?

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