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!