Description
Why settle for eye-candy when you can settle for mind-candy.
In 1987 Distant Suns first put the universe on your desktop. In 2009 it puts the universe in your shirt pocket. The world of astronomy was opened up first for Commodore Amiga users in 1987, making it one of most venerable software titles around.
Sporting a database of over 130,000 stars, along with nebula and galaxies, Distant Suns has earned the reputation of both having one of the most realistic displays of the night sky, while being one of the easiest to use astronomy programs available for the most casual sky watchers and serious astronomers alike.
• http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/06/distant-suns-for-iphone-update-sky-no-longer-the-limit/
• 5 Stars from ituneappreview.com, http://www.ituneappreviews.com/2008/11/12/distant-suns.htm
• 5 Stars in iphoneapplicationlist.com
• 4 Stars from AppVee.co: http://www.appvee.com/t/distant-suns
• http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk_iphone_starsmay02,0,7829171.story
Features include:
• Compass aware for the 3GS. Just aim at it a the sky and see what you’re looking at!
• Over 130,000 pinpoint stars scintillating like diamond dust in the palm of your hand
• Realistic ghostly band of the Milky Way
• All 88 constellations with images and articles on their mythology
• Preference panel to change the way stars are rendered in over a dozen different ways.
• The Messier catalog of galaxies, nebula and star clusters
• Dozens of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope
• All 8 planets (Pluto is optional)
• GPS aware
• Red interface to preserve your night vision
• What’s Up? Gives a quick one snapshot overview of where all of the important stuff is
• Landscape panoramas from observatories to ancient Greek ruins
• Easy one-handed operation.
• Point and Identify mode reveals a wealth of hidden data for each star, planet or deep-sky object
• Planetary data and information
The Universe just got, well…uh…”smaller.”