Distant Suns (Lite): Astronomy for the rest of us Screenshots

Description

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.

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
What's 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 the stars, planets and deep-sky wonders
Up to date Planetary data
IM the author with astronomical questions. And he may answer if he's not napping. AIM Handle: lazyastronomer. Also on twitter at distantsuns.

What do the paid versions have that this doesn't?

Universal version so it runs on both the iPhone and iPad (Distant Suns 3 only)
The ability to change date/time and accelerate time to study the heavenly motions
Up to 300,000 stars, down to magnitude 10
Mythical figures for all constellations
The ability to fine tune the star's sizes and images from simple to stunning
Be able to filter out dimmer stars to match your local sky
Compass support for iPhone 3GS, 4 and the iPad. Just aim the phone at the sky and see what you're looking at.
Augmented Reality: displays the stars on top of your phones video image
Nightvision mode keeps your eyes dark-adapted when outside at night
Smoothly slews to each object when selected
Limits the current-event alert to one showing.
Additional landscape images
Third toolbar for ease of navigation
Extra in-depth data about each object

"The most beautiful computer program anywhere! Thanks!!" comment received on Twitter

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

What's New in Version 1.5.0

• New toolbar
• Revamped What’s Up? screen
• New Point and Identify display
• Now works much better in landscape
• Added proper names to the Deep Sky Wonders
• Mythological artwork for all the constellations now

Customer Reviews

Very, very good (5 stars)
Forget that this is free. It is a fantastic app for what it is trying to do! It has amazing star maps, blurbs about what you see, names of stars and constellations, position of sun/moon/planets, ecliptic plane, pretty fluid and easy to use motion, etc. And it's free! Basically, if you want to know what you're looking at up in the sky at night this is a very nice app. Of course, like any astronomy activity, you must spend 2-5 minutes fig

The Virus! (5 stars)
I am really fond of this app!!
It is a real help for a stargazers at any level...AND IT'S FREE so what's the complaint!!!???

Excellent App (5 stars)
This app is absolutely perfect for the amateur Astronomer. A portable database of virtually all deep-sky objects in real-time. I plan on buying Distant Suns 3 very soon. Very well done, sir. My dork side loves it!

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