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TAKE THE VENUS TRANSIT CHALLENGE! On June 5th, 2012, the planet Venus transits the Sun for the last time until 2117. Get a copy of SkySafari 3, ON SALE AT 70% OFF through June 6th, and capture this historic celestial event with your iOS device. E-mail your photo to venus@southernstars.com, and you might just win a new iPod touch or iPad! For complete details on the SkySafari Venus Transit Challenge, go to www.southernstars.com.

The summer of 2012 brings a solar eclipse and the transit of Venus - follow them with SkySafari 3! As just reviewed in The Mac Observer, SkySafari 3 is "the best of all the star chart apps for iOS":

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/review/explore_the_sky_with_the_best_skysafari_for_ipad/

According to Sky & Telescope magazine, SkySafari 3 is "revolutionary" and a "game-changer":

http://media.skyandtelescope.com/documents/Southern+Stars_Dec11.pdf

SkySafari 3 comes in three versions. This is basic version of SkySafari 3. It shows you 46,000 stars, plus 220 of the best-known star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the sky. It displays the Solar System's major planets and moons using NASA spacecraft imagery, and includes the best-known asteroids and comets.

SkySafari 3 accurately shows you the sky from any place on Earth, at any time up to one hundred years in the past or future. It includes encyclopedic descriptions of the constellations, stars, and planets written by professional astronomers. And it contains hundreds of images from NASA space missions, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the world's foremost astro-photographers.

If you have an iPhone/iPad with a compass, or an iPod Touch with a gyroscope, SkySafari can help you identify stars and planets by holding your phone next to them. Tap the Compass/Gyro button (or shake your phone) to activate the compass - now, as you move the phone around, the sky chart follows your motion. Search for any object in the sky, and follow the arrow on screen to find it!

SkySafari 3 has a "Night" button to preserve your dark adaptation as you're exploring the night sky. The Time Flow feature lets you animate the night sky using simple VCR controls - follow the motion of the stars and planets as SkySafari compresses days, months, and years into a few seconds.

SkySafari 3 includes SkyWeek - the mobile version of Sky & Telescope Magazine's super-popular "Sky at a Glance" column. SkyWeek features interactive sky charts for each day of the week, and links to more articles on S&T's website. SkyWeek shows you all major sky events: eclipses, conjunctions, good meteor showers miss nothing!

And all this is just in the basic version! SkySafari's streamlined user interface puts both power and simplicity into your hands - and turns your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into an invaluable tool for exploring the night sky. SkySafari is more than a star chart - it's your celestial travel guide!

What's New in Version 3.5

1) A new Moon map is based on imagery from NASA's 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Moon is always shown as a disk with its correct phase. The Moon's dark side now shows faint earthshine, and appears sky-colored in daylight. The sky darkens when solar eclipses take place.

2) Venus - or any other planet - now always shows as a black dot when transiting the Sun. Planet surface grids are drawn more accurately.

3) Object Info descriptions for the planets and constellations have been rewritten. Learn about the mythology of the planets, the transit of Venus, and total solar eclipses! Object Info also shows opposition, conjunction, eclipse, and transit dates for solar system objects.

4) You can now search for objects by typing a number without any catalog prefix. Searching for "104" will now find Messier 104, NGC 104, star HR 104, and asteroid (104) Klymene.

5) If you turned on the compass by tilting the phone up toward the sky, it now stays on until you lower it more than 30 degrees below the horizon.

6) Improved app icon and splash screen.

Customer Reviews

Freakin Rocks!!! (5 stars)
I sit up till 2a playing with this thing ;)

Well put together...but the icon? (4 stars)
This was always a good app, and the most recent update only improved its functionality. The new icon looks like a high schooler made it in MS Paint, but that shouldn't stop anyone from buying it.

Chipp63 (4 stars)
Very nice

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