Star Walk 5 Stars Astronomy Guide – Christmas Edition v5.1.1 iPhone and iPod Touch by STORM
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Enjoy enhanced stargazing experience with gyroscope on iPhone 4 and full iOS 4 support with multitasking!
Star Walk is your personal planetarium that can answer all of your curiosities about the sky! For anyone who is interested in stargazing, amateurs or professionals Star Walk makes discovering more than 9,000 stars, planets, constellations, and messier objects as beautiful and easy as it has never been before!
Use the Star Spotter function to see the sky in front of you in real-time. Tilt your iPhone towards the sky to activate the DIGITAL COMPASS which will determine location and orientation of your phone. The image on your screen will correspond to the area of the sky you are pointing your phone towards, and it will follow your movements. Please note that this function is available on iPhone 3GS/4 devices only.
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 contact us at follow us on twitter.com/starwalk or our facebook group page.
Star Walk features and how to use them:
DIGITAL COMPASS If you have an iPhone 3GS/4 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. This function is not available for iPod Touch users as there is no digital compass inside iPod Touch.
TIME MACHINE: tap the clock icon and scroll the time slider to watch the sky tonight or lets say two years from now. Travel in time and observe night sky on your birthday, be a part of astronomical events like Solar eclipses and meteor showers.
SKY LIVE Window: open up the new window by tapping the moon-shaped button to see moon phases, elevation, and rising data for the Sun, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn.
PICTURE of the DAY: a push notification will appear on the Star Walk icon to tell you there is a new picture. Tap the right hand corner menu button, select glowing “Picture of the Day” button and a list of pictures will open in front of you. To learn more about the pictures tap the -i- icon on the top right hand corner.
BOOKMARKS: save a reminder of beautiful night sky observations, bookmark it on your iPhone and send it to your friends via e-mail.
VIEW from the EARTH: Automatic and manual selection of locations on a 3D globe.
MOON PHASES: select the SKY LIVE window and see the moon phases for several days. Change dates on the top to see the moon phases for the past or for the future. Or zoom in the image of Moon and scroll the time slider.
Wikipedia LINKS: select one celestial body and tap the – i – icon to activate the magnifier and read main information about it. To know more tap the Wiki icon at the bottom of the table and the Wikipedia page will open up.
SETTINGS: with the settings you can modify user preferences like you can change the screen to night mode, select brightness of the stars (change stars magnitude with a slider), put sounds on or off, switch on or off the constellations images.
HELP GUIDE: the help tab includes some basic instruction on how to use time machine and location selection. FAQ section includes some common questions from our users and answers to them. For any doubts, suggestions or concerns contact us via support e-mail, Twitter or Facebook fan page.
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”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
What’s New in Version 5.1.1
Star Walk 5.1.1 Christmas Edition!
• Star Walk 5.1.0 Bug fixes
Star Walk 5.1.0 Christmas Edition!
• SANTA – As you would assume, he will appear in the sky on Christmas. Luckily, you have the Time Machine to fast forward to Dec 24th and find him.
• PRINTING Print the night sky with stars and constellations WIRELESSLY right from your iPаd or iPhone 4.
• NEW STARS catalogues – Stars with exoplanets and the biggest stars, plus more info on spectral class and distance from the Earth.
• SATELLITES INFO – Info about the most interesting satellites, details on the launch and their story.
• Bug fixes
Star Walk 5.0
• SATELLITES – find out where exactly the ISS is right now! (and over 150 satellites more)
• AUGMENTED REALITY for new iPod Touch – So you don’t have a digital compass in your 4th gen iPod Touch, no worries – now you can now enjoy Star Walk augmented reality anyway!
• Superior PRECISION for iPhone: calibrate your compass by matching Star Walk sky with the view acquired from your camera.
• TELRAD: advanced feature to help you measure angular distance between nearby stars. Can be turned on/off in Settings menu.
• BIG SCREEN – connect a second display to view the sky on a big screen!
• New General Catalogue added (this means MORE deep sky objects, galaxies and nebulae!)
• New constellations’ pictures.
• Share your Bookmarks on Facebook!
• Sharing Picture of the Day via Twitter bug fixed.
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