Description
Discover the power of a professional sky atlas in the palm of your hand. Point telescopes easily on faint objects using the eyepiece mode. Prepare your observations with the automatic selection of tonight's best objects. With Starmap Pro Edition, add the power of desktops' planetariums to your iPhone™ and iPod Touch™.
Look at Starmap in action in a 15 minutes movie on star-map.fr before buying !
CATALOGS
2 500 000 stars • Tycho 2 catalog • SAO catalog • 8300 stars with physical characteristics • Maximum magnitude 16 • Messier catalog • Full NGC/IC catalogs • 13 000 deep sky objects with physical characteristics • Complete ephemeris for 25 000 sky objects • Full solar system ephemeris, including planets satellites • Moon phase calendar • Meteor zones • Searches by text and ids • Featured objects selection • Automatic selection of the best observable objects.
TELESCOPES & OPTICS
Eyepiece view with real apparent sizes of objects • Optics database with barlows, focal reducers, CCDs, finders • Dual and single reticles • Equatorial and azimuthal reticles • Fast change of optics with pinch and zoom • Eyepiece mode swapping with a simple device flip.
OBSERVATION
Full night vision red mode • Sky twilight and stars brightness adjustment • Telrad • Orientation and search arrow • Photos timers • Logbook • Notes • Alarms on sky objects events • Live time changer • Integrated lamp • Supports portrait and landscape mode • Compass support for 3GS • Coordinates display • Full control of colors of map items • 500 cities database • User locations • GPS and auto-location support.
What's New in Version 1.2
• Compass support for iPhone 3GS.
• Comets update from the web.
• The sleep mode can be disabled.
• The landscape mode can be disabled.
Issues corrected:
•Transit time are too imprecise and can vary by one hour.
•Telescope control pads can sometimes be inactive, due to a missing initialization.
•Spurious crashes when zooming in the map (in Leo). In the mean time, deselect the halo display in the deep sky settings. Note that this happens only under os3.
•An issue occuring when the maximum displayed magnitude was negative or null.
• Moon ephemeris is more precise.
• Parallactic corrections now included.
Customer Reviews
Best in class
I own Pocket Universe, Star Walk, Planets, iEphemeris, Stars, Uranus, and Distant Suns, as well as a few others. If I had to keep only one, it would be Star Map Pro without hesitation! If I had to keep only two, it would be Star Map Pro and Star Walk (I like Star Walk's rendering of DSOs as images, as well as time animations).
This app is head and shoulders above the pack though. Mag 16 star catalogue. 8000 named stars, another 8000 named objects, Eyepiece view, and telescope control!! (currently Mac only)
For Serious Amateurs and Professionals
Starmap Pro is as close to a desktop planetarium program as can be expected on the iPhone. The only (quite excusable) disadvantages I can discern are an incomplete atlas (it's got a lot, but not everything and most stars are not provided with identifiers) and a lack of internet interface with services such as Simbad or SDSS or 2MASS image servers. It is totally understandable why these features would be excluded from a handheld planetarium program. The advantages of Starmap are numerous: It is easy to bring with you when observing. It has many features specifically designed to aid while outside with a scope or binoculars. It automatically detects your latitude and longitude to use when producing the sky view. It has intuitive twilight and star magnitude sliders. Accurate to sub-arcminute scales. Etc etc.
I am an astronomy grad student and I do a lot of observing and am sure this app will come in handy. Great to use as a teaching aid while giving students demos with our roof-top telescope but also useful for planning observing runs and getting that invaluable quick-look at the sky without leaving the dome.
I wholeheartedly recommend Starmap Pro to serious amateurs and professionals. If you just want to look up at night and have an informative guide to constellations and planets, stick with the original Starmap. If you want a handy, feature-packed star atlas to use with a telescope, you've found it with Starmap Pro.
Compass Control is the BOMB!
Just downloaded the latest version which incorporates the electro compass feature in the 3G S. This is beyond cool. I had previously downloaded what was at the time the best astro program available. It incorporated the inertial sensors to simulate moving about the sky, but it was all but useless. This works! I can just point the Iphone up in the sky and immediately identify lesser known stars that I am not already familiar with. Great for selecting alignment stars for goto scopes. It’s a shame one has to upgrade to the new S model for this feature, but such is the world of technology.
- Category: Reference
- Updated Jul 18, 2009
- Current Version: 1.2
- 59.5 MB
- Languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: Frúdúric Descamps
- © 2009 Frederic Descamps
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
