Star Walk app on Ipod Touch

[Furberger]

I've had a pretty scientific background, studied engineering and have a pretty good grasp on physics in an everyday environment, but I've never really picked up much astronomy.

Walking back to the house the other night, wanting to identify which planet I was actually looking at, I downloaded the Star Walk app for my Ipod touch. What an incredible piece of kit!

For those of you who don't know, it shows a virtual simulation of the night sky, which moves in real time as you move the screen around in the vertical and horizontal. It also has a database of 1000's of stars, planets, galaxies, satellites etc, with basic info on each and trivia on selected ones.

I'm sure there are others out there that people prefer to use, but for a couple of quid, I cannot recommend this enough. If you haven't got it, get it!

[Nimby]

Google's Sky Map for Android is similar (and free).

[dickymint]

Guam said:

Furberger said:

I've had a pretty scientific background, studied engineering and have a pretty good grasp on physics in an everyday environment, but I've never really picked up much astronomy.

Walking back to the house the other night, wanting to identify which planet I was actually looking at, I downloaded the Star Walk app for my Ipod touch. What an incredible piece of kit!

For those of you who don't know, it shows a virtual simulation of the night sky, which moves in real time as you move the screen around in the vertical and horizontal. It also has a database of 1000's of stars, planets, galaxies, satellites etc, with basic info on each and trivia on selected ones.

I'm sure there are others out there that people prefer to use, but for a couple of quid, I cannot recommend this enough. If you haven't got it, get it!

Yeah use this app awesome

There are a couple of good ones out there Starmap is another very good one

Slightly off topic another good app is planefinder for when you look up see a contrail and go mmm wonder where they are off to? lol It tracks air movements and you can see what it is, where its from and where its going to <the ultimate in curtain twitching>.

Another one is shazam if you havent got it, for when a piece of music comes on in a movie or on the TV and you want to know what it is


Cheers

Thanks both, downloading Star Walk now. I've been using ISS on iphone but that just tracks satellites. Stellarium is a good freebie for PCs

Edited: Downloaded it - absolutely amazing.

So far I've seen the err umm errr Sun Roll on clear skies tonight.

Edited by dickymint on Wednesday 7th March 12:22

[XJSsometimeSoon]

I use SKeye on Android (free) and it is great, seems to be a touch more precise than Google Sky, but slightly less user friendly.