Free iOS App Today: Star Rover HD – Stargazing and Night Sky Watching

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-rover-hd-stargazing-night/id437217048?mt=8

 

Do you love the starry night? Do you want to know everything in the sky? Star Rover HD is the fantastic planetarium for your iPad. Just hold up your iPad and Star Rover HD will tell you exactly what you are pointing at.

Star Rover HD determines your location automatically. You'll see the stars, moon, planets, constellations in their proper place from your current location. As you move your iPad, the star map updates in real time.

Star Rover HD makes the virtual sky a gorgeous view. You can see star twinkling, beautiful nebulae, occasional meteor and even sunset glow in the evening.

Star Rover HD is very easy to use. You can simply change the sky view in settings and use pinch-to-zoom gesture for everything you want to know in the night sky.

Features

– Over 120,000 stars.
– All 88 constellations with beautiful artworks.
– Planets and their moons with stunning graphics.
– Moon phases.
– Real images of nebulae (Messier catalogue).
– Sky objects information.
– Realistic Milky Way.
– Star twinkling.
– Equatorial and azimuthal grids.
– Realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.
– Eclipse simulation.
– Sky view underneath the horizon.
– Time setting and animation.
– Manually location setting.
– Sky view sharing.
– Point and view.

 

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is Director of Technology for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. In that role, he also directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC) located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student open­access computer facility, a K­12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center. Nathan served eight years (2004­2012) on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) He was re­elected in 2014 to serve another two year term on the board. A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students every age from young children to senior citizens. He has had the opportunity beginning in 2011 to train international high school teachers from all over the world about technology in education, through the U.S. State

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