Star Walk - 5 stars astronomy guide in your hands! 2.1

Get ready to admire the next Meteor Shower on August 11th and 12th with the new Star Spotter function of Star Walk. It will look so real you will feel like touching the stars. Point your 3GS to the sky and the display will show you what you are looking at, follow the meteor shower moving your iPhone and getting the best spot. It will look so real you will feel like touching the stars.

Star Walk now with Digital Compass and Help Guide gives you a great tool to enjoy all astronomic events in the sky. With the latest additions Star Walk is your best astronomy guide in the palm of your hand.

Whether you are Star Wars or Star Trek fans, astronomy beginners or amateurs discover stars, planets, constellations and more with Star Walk. The most amazing, high quality, dynamic and realistic stargazing guide on earth. It simply makes astronomy easy for everybody.

How to use the 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 whether you move up or down, left or right. In order to stop the function simply touch the display.

If you dont have an iPhone 3GS the Star Spotter function will still activate once you tilt your iPhone or iPodTouch and will work as you hold it and move it up and down.

More dynamic functions in Star Walk:

TIME MACHINE: click on the clock icon and date and time will be displayed. Slide your finger on the hours and the sky will start moving accordingly. Touch year, month and time and change depending on what you want to see, the display will adapt accordingly to show you how stars and planets were aligned at that time.

MOON PHASES: select the moon with the touch of your finger, click on -i - symbol to enlarge the image and start the clock to watch moon phases. You can do the same with all other planets and stars.

Wikipedia LINKS: select one celestial body 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

FINDER: if you cant find the star, planet or constellation you are interested in, click on the magnifier symbol and a list of all of them will appear, select it and the display will locate it for you.

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.

HELP GUIDE: for any doubt on how to use the Star Spotter function or the Time Machine click on - ? - menu

Hot Features:
• Star Spotter Function (your iPhone 3GS screen displays and follows what you are looking at)
• Cutting-edge graphics
• Time machine
• Moon phases
• Night mode
• Meteor showers
• Wikipedia links
• Real 30 FPS
• Spatio-temporal bookmarks
• Pictures of all constellations

***INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY 2009 OFFICIAL PRODUCT***

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Star Walk reviewed:

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

"Whether you are a novice or expert astronomer, I believe you will find it entertaining and useful. At the very least, itll be a cool ice-breaker at parties!"
- iphonelifeblog
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