Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your go-to interactive star chart of the night sky, following your every movement in real time and allowing you to explore over 200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information about stars, planets, satellites, and constellations that you find. Jun 14, 2012 Star Walk is one of my favorite iPad apps which I use all the time. So I was really interested to meet the people behind this app when its developer, Vito Technology, hit town for WWDC this week.
features
sky
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars
- default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects
- extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for 20+ different cultures
- images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
- realistic Milky Way
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- the planets and their satellites
interface
- a powerful zoom
- time control
- multilingual interface
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
- all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
visualisation
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- tails of comets
- iridium flares simulation
- eclipse simulation
- supernovae and novae simulation
- 3D sceneries
- skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customizability
- plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
- ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
news
system requirements
minimal
- Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
- 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.3
- 512 MiB RAM
- 250 MiB on disk
- keyboard
recommended
- Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
- 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above
- 1 GiB RAM or more
- 1.5 GiB on disk
- keyboard
developers
Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Graphic designer: Johan Meuris, Martín Bernardi
Developer: Alexander Wolf, Guillaume Chéreau, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot
Continuous Integration: Hans Lambermont
Tester: Khalid AlAjaji
and everyone else in the community.
social media
collaborate
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You can learn more about Stellarium, get support and help the project from these links:
git
The latest development snapshot of Stellarium is kept on github. If you want to compile development versions of Stellarium, this is the place to get the source code.
irc
Real time chat about Stellarium can be had in the #stellarium IRC channel on the freenode IRC network. Use your favorite IRC client to connect to chat.freenode.net or try the web-based interface.
supporters and friends
Stellarium is produced by the efforts of the developer team, with the help and support of the following people and organisations .
Guide to the sky day and night
The next generation of the best-selling Star Walk, winner of Apple Design Award, used by over 10 million people, Star Walk 2 is an exquisite stargazing tool that combines astronomical data with premium technology to deliver an effortless journey through thousands of stars, comets, and constellations. All you have to do is point your iPhone or iPad at the sky.
'She’s a beauty.'
The Next Web
'Star Walk 2 is a terrific introduction to astronomy for young and old. It's also handy for serious stargazers for observing planning.'
TUAW
'For those who enjoy the original app, Star Walk 2 is worth the upgrade — the interface is gorgeous. Anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy should grab Star Walk 2.'
iLounge
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'It is worth every penny.'
PadGadget
