StarChart for Android

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Here's one for Android people, who may be starving for planetariums, or is that planetarii? Good to se a few come your way!

https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result

Star Chart
The best selling smart phone astronomy app comes to Android!

Now you can have a virtual star chart in your pocket! Look through the eyes of your Android device* to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.

All you have to do is point your Android device* at the sky and Star Chart will tell you exactly what you are looking at.

Using state of the art GPS technology, an accurate 3D universe, and all of the latest high tech functionality, Star Chart calculates – in real time - the current location of every star and planet visible from Earth and shows you precisely where they are; even in broad daylight!

Want to know what that bright star is called? Point your device at it – you might just find out it’s a planet!

Want to know what the night sky looks like to people on the other side of the earth? Well just point your device down!
Want to know where your star sign is in the sky? Star Chart will tell you all this and more.

Star Charts features include:
- Just point and view. No need to scroll around the screen to find out what you are looking at*.
- Alternatively, look around the sky using finger gestures – perfect for armchair astronomers!
- Supports dynamic device orientation viewing. Allows you to view the night sky whilst holding your Android device at any angle.
- Accurately depicts all the visible stars of the northern and southern hemispheres - a total of over 5000 stars!
- Displays all the planets of the solar system, plus the sun and the moon.
- Displays all 88 constellations, with constellation imagery based on the beautiful artwork by 15th century astronomer Johannes Hevelius.
- Includes entire Messier catalogue of exotic deep sky objects.
- Tap on anything in the sky and get the facts on what you are looking at, including distance and brightness.
- Very powerful zoom function, lets you view the sky in extra detail, using intuitive finger gestures.
- Fully configurable. Star Chart displays only the sky objects that you are interested in.
- Allows you to view the sky underneath the horizon (unlike other more expensive applications). So now you can see where the sun is, even at night!
- Manually set your location to find out what the sky looks like from anywhere in the world.
- Full search feature
- Installable on an SD card
So point your Android device at the sky and see what's out there!
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Escapist Games will update Star Chart regularly, so please send us your feedback and features requests to starchart@escapistgames.com … thanks!
*Augmented Reality mode only available if your device supports it, as this feature requires a built-in compass. Manual scrolling is supported on all other devices.
Follow Star Chart on Twitter: StarChartApp - twitter.com/StarChartApp

[oosh (Jason)]

Bought this on the weekend - looks pretty good so far. I emailed the developer with a couple of suggestions too, and they've taken them on board pretty seriously - seems like they'll listen to suggestions for improvements etc, so thumbs up from me.

[Suzy]

I bought this a couple of weeks ago after I saw your post, Chris, and I am loving it!
I can touch on the stars and it tells me if it's gamma, alpha etc. And when I touch on the ojects, it gives a nice pic along with the astrophysics. Exactly what I've been looking for. When tapping on a star or object, it works better if you stretch the pic so the stars and objects aren't so close together thereby accidentally tapping on the wrong ones.
I am new to this whole new android technology.

[Suzy]

Hey Jason
Do you mind if I ask what the suggestions you made were?