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Old 07-31-2009, 08:34 AM
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Default Star Walk 2.1 released! Now with Digital Compass and Help Guide

Star Walk now with Digital Compass and Help Guide upgrade becomes the best astronomy guide on earth!

If you haven't tried Star Walk yet now it's the time. Get closer to astronomy and admire the sky thanks to this amazing application. Star Walk has the best interface, usability and quality for images and functions. Your website users miss the opportunity to present it to your users. Also we reckon Star Walk is the best astronomy application ever made for iPhone and iPodTouch, what do you and your readers think?

The ''Star Spotter'' function and the stunning interface gives you the virtual sky in your hand, tilt your phone and activate it, move it with you and the sky will follow your movements. What you see will be displayed dynamically on your screen together with all the related info that Star Walk includes this way you will be never short of words to name your stars! The function is easy and straight forward but for any doubts you can also refer to the new Help Guide (?).

More Amazing functions from Star Walk:

TIME MACHINE (included in the Help Guide): 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.

FINDER: if you can't 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.

Wikipedia links: select one celestial corpse 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

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.

Hot Features:

• Cutting-edge graphics and Intuitive interface
• Time machine
• Moon phases
• Night mode
• Deep sky objects (Messier)
• Meteor showers
• Wikipedia links
• Real 30 FPS
• Search Function
• Magnitude selection
• Pictures of all constellations


For those and many more reasons Star Walk has also been selected as the Official Product for IYA2009 (international year of astronomy2009)


Visit Star Walk page at our site.

Buy Star Walk for $4.99 at AppStore.
 
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