Observe stars and planets from virtually any place on Earth

November 7, 2008 - VITO Technology releases Star Walk – an interactive celestial map for iPhone. With Star Walk you can identify and learn stars or constellations, watch changing Moon phases, get acquainted with the basics of astronomy.

Star Walk is your realistic guide for star gazing. Whenever you admire the starry night sky, Star Walk helps you to recognize anonymous heavenly bodies. Just find them on your interactive star map and tap “i” to retrieve useful information, such as celestial coordinates of these heavenly bodies. Don’t be afraid to get overloaded by tons of specific terms. Star Walk is not for scientific use but for learning something new playfully. The cutting-edge graphics and smooth moving/scaling make your work with Star Walk pleasant and easy. You do not need a manual for using Star Walk because of its intuitive interface.

Star Walk covers about 9000 stars, planets and constellations. You can select and tap any object to have it zoomed and to read additional information. Star Walk currently supports English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Japanese languages. The skyline in Star Walk is annotated with the four compass points (North West South East) for better orientation.

Lunar Phase feature. Using Star Walk you don’t have to browse the lunar calendar to know whether it’s crescent, waxing gibbous or full Moon phase. You do not even have to know these astronomical terms. Just zoom in Moon with a double tap and see how much the lunar surface is shadowed. It is that simple.

Time Machine feature. Use GPS to get located automatically or choose manually any location. New York, Sydney, Paris or the South Pole  – you can observe the sky from wherever you like. Having chosen the location you can watch the starry sky on your iPhone as if you were there physically. But there is more…

You can choose time. Actually that means that you can virtually travel through the time, future or past. This is a chance to see the stars and constellations through the eyes of Galileo. Of course, you can also choose a date from the future and watch the sky as it will be seen by our descendants over centuries.

Star Walk. Your pocket observatory. Anytime. Anywhere.

Star Walk for iPhone and iPod is available for $4.99 at AppStore: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=295430577&mt=8

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