The Night Sky enables you to view the night sky from any point on earth. Solar Walk lets you view the interiors and composition of planetary bodies Perhaps the best feature is the ability to view 3D slices of the planets, with information about the inner structure and history of their exploration. The visuals are gorgeous, and it’s deservedly attracted great reviews and ratings. Solar Walk is an incredibly detailed 3D model of the solar system, with lots of interesting facts about the planets and the sun. Fly through our solar system in gorgeous animated 3D There are a couple of different modes available such as Outer, Surface, Landing Approach and Slingshot, and it’s certainly a fun way to experience the planets. This app doesn’t include much information about the stars, but its main attraction is that it takes you on a 3D animated flypast of the planets in our solar system. SkySafari Pro ($49.99) is only available for download from the developer website rather than the App Store, but that version includes 15 million stars! SkySafari's information is detailed and very accurate There’s also a “plus” version priced at £13.99, which has a much larger database (2.5 million stars) as well as WiFi control of your telescope. SkySafari is one of the highest rated astronomy apps on the App Store. SkySafari lets you view the night sky from any point on Earth up to one million years into the past or future, and very detailed descriptions of the planets and stars written by professional astronomers. This version has a built-in database of 120,000 stars, plus 220 of the best known star clusters, nebulae and galaxies. There are actually several versions of SkySafari (plus the iPhone version). View the stars and planets in gorgeous 3D The 3D animations are perhaps the highlight of this fascinating app. There is a large catalogue of stars, asteroids and planets, and you can go back or forward in time to see the state of the universe at any point in the last few thousand years. SkyORB 3D takes you on a virtual 3D tour of the solar system and deep space, with easy navigation between anything of interest. Explore Saturn using the unique and futuristic interface Many of Saturn’s moons are also covered in detail such as Enceladus, Dione, Mimas, and Tethys. Everything you ever wanted to know about Saturn is available, and it reveals startling facts about the planetary weather such as a bizarre hexagonal storm system that encircles the planet’s north pole. Saturn is a great application all about the planet Saturn and its moons, with a very cool and futuristic interface straight out of Star Trek. Moon Atlas contains everything you ever wanted to know about the moon A wonderful way to learn about our closest celestial neighbour. Spacecraft that have visited the moon are included, and there’s a complete searchable database of every object. Any of the moon’s features can be investigated by double-clicking on the relevant labels, and you can zoom right out to get a detailed 3D view of the entire moon. The Moon Atlas app is by the same developers as the aforementioned Mars Atlas, and presents a similar view and application interface. Mars Atlas is the only compendium about Mars you'll ever need There really isn’t a better Mars application than this, and you can even use pinch and zoom gestures to zoom in closer to the planet’s surface. It’s only concerned with Mars and provides extremely hi-res images of the entire planet’s surface, as well as details of interesting features and locations of the Mars rovers, which are updated at startup. Mars Atlas is probably the most comprehensive Mars app for the Mac. Equinox displays very detailed information about the night's sky In this sense, it offers something more than most astronomy apps do, and is very accurate in terms of the information offered. Details: Apple website, developer websiteĮquinox isn’t the cheapest astronomy tool, but besides information about planetary bodies it can also control most telescopes with the added advantage that you can use voice commands.
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