Finalist in TabTimes Best Tablet App contest in the Family category, 2014 Distant Suns (max) astronomy app is an award-winning hand-held planetarium with over 25 years of development, offering you the new way to look at the sky from on the Earth to off. Sporting over 130,000 stars, all 8 (or is it 9?) planets, the sun and moon, constellations, galaxies, nebula and star clusters, Distant Suns offers a gracefully visual respite from a busy day. While others play games, you can travel to the stars. • Set your location from any place on Earth or off • Change the date and time to show the sky of the past or future, like a celestial time-machine in your hands • Learn the stories behind each constellation • Follow the moon through its phases, and the planets through their monthly dance • Unique to Distant Suns (max)You are no longer Earth-bound so you may fly out to the planets and watch them in their stately presence • Observe Saturn from behind, Jupiter from Io, the Earth from the Moon • Contains over 200 galaxies, nebula and star clusters, many within reach of binoculars • Touch the sky to view extensive data on each object • Perfect for the whole family. The only requirement is sense of wonder!
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 1.1.4 posted on 2013-11-13
• Should now show as being available to Nexus tablets,• Caught a couple of crash bugs. - Version 1.1.0 posted on 2013-06-29
Several fixes and updates
Program Details
- Category: Education > Teaching & Training Tools
- Publisher: First Light Design, LLC
- License: Free Trial
- Price: $5.99
- Version: 1.2.4
- Platform: android