A new window with new information and few more surprises to be discovered for the holidays are only some of the beautiful features of Star Walk new version 3.4 (free update), now also selected by Apple as one of the best app for 2009. If you like the sound of this try and play with our Star Walk Challenge, a new, free, easy to use but yet challenging game to augment your adventures in the universe from the developers of Star Walk.

Open Star Walk and the new SKY LIVE window will open in front of you with data about sun rise, sunset times, daylight hours and elevation will be shown. More you can see moon phases and read rise, set time and elevation for 4 main planets: Venus, Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter so you will never miss what is happening on the sky. Clicking on the arrows you can collect same information for further or past days. To check the SKY LIVE window simply click on the new upper left hand corner moon shaped button.

You can become an expert star gazer reading up about more than 9,000 stars, looking at all the planets, constellations and messier objects. The smooth and stunning interface will help you locate them and admire them in all their beauty. You can zoom on them, pan them, click on -i- for collecting information and see where they will be next with the time machine.

If you have a 3GS enjoy the STAR SPOTTER FUNCTION to activate the digital compass on Star Walk tilt your phone and what you are looking at in the sky will appear on the screen. You can pan the iPhone display and scroll the stars around you.

Star Walk features and how to use them:

SKY LIVE Window: open up the new window clicking the top left hand corner moon shaped button and see moon phases, elevation and rising data for the Sun, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.

PICTURE of the DAY: an exclamation marks will appear on the left hand corner click on it and a list of pictures will open in front of you. To know more about the pictures click on -i- for info on the top right hand corner.

HELP GUIDE: for any doubt on how to use the Digital Compass, the Time Machine, Location Selection and to get in contact with us for any suggestions or concerns click on -?- on the top right corner.

VIEW from the EARTH:
Automatic and manual selection of locations on a 3D globe.

DIGITAL COMPASS
If you have an iPhone 3GS tilt your phone and the ”Star Spotter” function will be activated, a live representation of what you see in the sky will appear on your display and the sky will start following your movements right, left, up and down.

TIME MACHINE: click on the clock icon and date and time to watch the sky tonight or in a year time.

MOON PHASES: select the moon, click on -i – symbol to enlarge the image and start the clock to watch moon phases.

Wikipedia LINKS: select one celestial corpse and click on the – i – icon to activate the magnifier and read main information about it. To know more click on the -w – icon at the bottom of the table ad the wikipedia page will open up

SETTINGS: with the bottom right icon you are given different options. You can change the screen with night mode, select brightness, put sounds on or off, find and select location and start you list of favorites. Here the -!- will indicate presence of new pictures.

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PROMO CODES available for reviews and giveaways

Useful links:
Star Walk at AppStore
Star Walk Challenge – promo game for FREE

Tags: iPhone, Star Walk

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