Distant Suns (Lite): Astronomy, the universe and stars, oh my! 1.1.1

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In 1987 Distant Suns first put the universe on your desktop. In 2009 it puts the universe in your shirt pocket. First released for the Commodore Amiga, Distant Suns is one of most venerable software titles around.

Sporting a database of thousands of stars, 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 watcher and serious telescope jockey alike.

Heres what people said about the original DIstant Suns:

•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
•A "million bazillion stars" from my girlfriend.

Features include:

•Best tech support in this and parallel universes
•Thousands of pinpoint stars scintillating like diamond dust in the palm of your hand (but not nearly as scratchy)
•Realistic ghostly band of the Milky Way
•All 88 constellations with articles on their mythology
•All 9 planets (yes, we feel that little Pluto got a bad rap so in the Distant Suns universe it is still a planet)
•Sun and Moon
•GPS aware
•Whats Up? Gives a quick snapshot overview of where all of the important stuff is
•Easy one-handed operation.
•Point and Identify mode reveals the hidden data for each of those star-things.
•Planetary data and information
•IM the author with astronomical questions. And he may answer if hes not napping. AIM Handle: lazyastronomer. Also on twitter at distantsuns.

What this doesnt have that you will find in the full version:

•The ability to change date/time and accelerate time to study the heavenly motions
•Additional landscape images
•Third toolbar for ease of navigation
• Extra in-depth data about each object

The Universe just got, well...uh..."smaller."