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SkyMap : Windows Phone 7 App

Saijo George — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:36:27 +0000

SkyMap 001

SkyMap provides interactive sky maps for any time, viewpoint and location on Earth right on your Windows Phone 7. It shows the different names, coordinates, magnitude, astronomical rise and set times plus additional information for over 110000 stars, messier objects, planets, sun and the moon. The developer has informed us it is the first sky map application on windows phone 7 using over 100000 skyobjects.

WP7 App Description

Details about SkyMap for Windows Phone 7

SkyMap has a full set of features in order to help both casual stargazers and amateur astronomers to explore and locate the objects in the sky:
- interactive zoom (dimmer stars are displayed based on the zoom level)
- night mode (preserves the eye adaptation to dark during stargazing sessions)
- gesture support (drag the sky map, pinch or double tap to zoom, tap to get sky object information, etc)
- telrad circles
- constellations, stars, deep space objects, planets, sun and moon informations
- autocomplete search function
- fast star data loading and initialization
- various map customizations and settings
- map animations
- map support for portrait and landscape orientations

SkyMap can be used as an educational software to learn the constellations and objects in the sky, to follow the movements of planets and other sky objects during the time (day or night), to find out the position of sun, planets and stars at specific moments of time between 1900 and 2100 (for example when you were born).

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WP7 App : Deluxe Moon

Saijo George — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:07:23 +0000

Deluxe Moon

You might be a stargazer or a werewolf who would like to know the date of the next full moon night , whatever be the case there is a Windows Phone 7 app that will help you. Our nearest celestial body ( The Moon ) is said to strongly affects many things on the Earth from tides and animals behavior and some even claim it plays an important part in human emotions, relationships, blood pressure an even finances. Say hello to Deluxe Moon by Lifeware Solutions.

WP7 App Description

Enjoy moon phases and beautifully animated zodiac circles. Touch-n-turn the Moon to change the date and moon phase. Browse moon calendar, get automatic GPS location or set any location, date, time manually. Learn about gardening by the moon, read multiaspect horoscope and moon day descriptions. Look at moon azimuth, moonrise time and learn when next moon phase is. Explore moon phases and unique moon astrology on your Windows Phone 7 device with style.

Features:

Moon calendar with moon phases and zodiac signs.

Moon compass shows current moon azimuth as well as moonrise and moonset azimuths.

Phase scan tells you when the next phase will be.

Automatic positioning by GPS or cellular network.

Network independence: works anywhere without Internet or cellular connections.

Flexibility: you can manually set location, time, date and UTC offset.

Three animated Zodiac circles.

Sidereal and tropical zodiacs along with astronomical constellations.

Horoscope with aspects for business, personal life and health.

Moon day descriptons.

Void-Of-Course: when the Moon transits from one Zodiac sign to another.

Gardening by the phases of the moon information for each phase.

Percent of the illuminated moon area.

Moonrise and moonset, Zenith and Nadir times for your location.

Moon Timers: amount of time since moonrise and until moonset.

Current moon’s age: how far along the moon is in its full cycle.

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Sistema Solare – Italian app for heavenly bodies

. Saijo — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:08:15 +0000

Sistema Solare

Sistema Solare is a new app for windows phone that gives the users information on various astronomical objects including Planets, Sun, satellites, comets, asteroids and more. The app gives specifications, images and descriptions of these celestial bodies but in Italian. I hope an English translation comes soon. The developers tells us that the app requires Compact framework3.5 and should work only on WQVGA or WVGA with WM5 or above.

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Wakusei 2.01

Saijo George — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:59:02 +0000

Wakusei

Wakusei provides real-time ephemerides ( a tabular statement of the assigned places of a celestial body for regular intervals ) and data of Solar System objects including Galilean satellites, martian moons, asteroids and dwarf planets, plus a map of the moon and online access to the Digitized Sky Survey.

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