GoSkyWatch Planetarium for iPad - the astronomy star guide Screenshots

Description

As seen in Apple's iPad 2 event Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations and more by simply pointing to the sky. Your personal telescope to the wonders in the night sky. Go outside and explore the night sky.

Featured on ABC's "The View" show
Featured in "Wired" magazine


--- What People Are Saying

"Powerful and easy to use, with excellent animation and the widest zoom range." D.Schroeder, University professor

"GoSkyWatch Planetarium should not be missed regardless of whether you are a casual or hard-core fan of astronomy." AppAdvice

"I have more than 10 astronomy apps on my iPhone and this is by far the best. Everything I need and easy to use." Pat, iTunes reviewer


--- What makes GoSkyWatch different to other astronomy apps?

Easy to use No buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring.

Designed specifically for efficient outdoor use.

Touch free identification No need to keep touching the screen to identify what you see in the sky. Great for those cold nights with gloves on!

Don't need to hold level Displays the sky view and information at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait.

Gyroscope compass auto calibration No need to calibrate the gyroscope. Advanced adaptive algorithms for smooth and accurate positioning.

Unique target identification Touch drag scheme for greatest accuracy and speed since your finger doesn't actually cover what you are trying to identify.

Planets shown with relative brightness to stars No oversized graphics that prevent you from distingishing a planet from surrounding stars.

Full 180 degree display See at a glance what is in the sky and where without having to pan around.

Minimal on screen text Stars and planets easier to identify since they are not covered by text.

Popup images No need to keep zooming in and out just to see what is out there.


Features:

Identify
Heads up object name, brightness and distance
Contains all stars visible to the naked eye
Magnitude adjustment for viewing conditions
Red light mode to preserve night vision
Touchless navigation even for the iPod touch without a compass.

Find
Looking for a planet, star, constellation or galaxy? Just use the finder and let the arrow guide the way
Search stars and DSOs sorted by name, distance or magnitude.
Moon phase calendar
Sun rise/set times

Explore
Day, sidereal and time lapse animation
Over 200 images of planets and deep sky objects
Messier and Caldwell catalogs with images
Actual image taken of the Milky Way
Below horizon display
Look back in time with the birthday star search. Find out how old you were for the star light seen.

Learn
Constellation images, boundaries and patterns
Solar system, star, DSO, constellation Wikipedia
Ian Ridpath's constellation StarTales
Interactive graphical ephemeris
Planet, star, constellation and DSO ephemeris data

More
High performance graphics
Easy setup using auto location or built in city list
Location favorites

* No internet connection required. Internet optionally used for auto location, viewing Wikipedia information and StarTales.

Many more enhancements to come as free updates.

See web site for video demo

What's New in Version 5.1.0

Version 5.1
- Graphics updates
- Bug fixes

Version 5.0
- New iPad retina display support
- Time lapse object tracking
- Japanese language added
- Chinese language added
- Improved iPad Wikipedia browser
- Local language Wikipedia links
- Local language star names
- Magellanic clouds added
- Improved location selection
- Night mode improvements (iOS 5)
- iOS 5 updates
- Graphics updates
- Bug fixes

Customer Reviews

Awesome App (5 stars)
Great way to star gaze. Kudos to all who worked hard on it. Thanks!!

Great program (5 stars)
Easy to use, comprehensive. Well worth the time to learn.

Goskywatchpro (5 stars)
Great for learning the constellations

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