Escapist Games Limited Apps
Star Chart
Used by over 20 million people world-wide,Star Chart provides a magical star gazing experience like noother.*****You can now have a virtual planetarium in your pocket! Look throughthe eyes of your Android device to see a virtual window into thewhole visible universe.All you have to do is point your Android deviceº at the sky andStar Chart will tell you exactly what you are looking at.Using state of the art GPS technology, an accurate 3D universe, andall of the latest high tech functionality, Star Chart calculates –in real time - the current location of every star and planetvisible from Earth and shows you precisely where they are; even inbroad daylight!Want to know what that bright star is called? Point your device atit – you might just find out it’s a planet!Want to know what the night sky looks like to people on the otherside of the earth? Well just point your device down!Want to know where your star sign is in the sky? Star Chart willtell you all this and more.Star Chart's features include:- Just point and view. No need to scroll around the screen to findout what you are looking at*.- Alternatively, look around the sky using finger gestures –perfect for armchair astronomers!- Voice Control: Explore the solar system with commands like: "Flyme to the Moon" / "Go to Saturn" / "Tour Mars" / "Look atAndromeda" / "Where is the Cigar Galaxy?"[English only]- Supports dynamic device orientation viewing. Allows you to viewthe night sky whilst holding your Android device at anyangle.- Accurately depicts all the visible stars of the northern andsouthern hemispheres - a total of over 120,000 stars!- Fly to and explore all the planets of the solar system, theirmoons and the sun all rendered in beautiful 3D with state of theart visual effects.- Displays all 88 constellations, with constellation imagery basedon the beautiful artwork by 17th century astronomer JohannesHevelius.- Includes entire Messier catalogue of exotic deep skyobjects.- Using the powerful Time Shift feature allows you to shift up to10,000 years forward or backward in time.- Tap on anything in the sky and get the facts on what you arelooking at, including distance and brightness.- Very powerful zoom function, lets you view the sky in extradetail, using intuitive finger gestures.- Fully configurable. Star Chart displays only the sky objects thatyou are interested in.- Allows you to view the sky underneath the horizon. So now you cansee where the sun is, even at night!- Manually set your location to find out what the sky looks likefrom anywhere in the world.- Full search featureSo point your Android device at the sky and see what's outthere!------------Star Chart is published by Escape Velocity Ltd and developed byEscapist Games Ltd. We update Star Chart regularly, so please sendus your feedback and feature requests [email protected] thanks for all your feedback so far!Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/starchartFollow Star Chart on Twitter: StarChartAppº Augmented Reality (AR) mode only available if your devicesupports it, as this feature requires a built-in compass. Manualscrolling is supported on all other devices.* Star Chart does not require internet access for normal usage.Internet access is only required initially to verify the licenseand subsequently when accessing the support page and externallinks.
