Free iOS App Today: StarMap 3D+: Stargazing and Astronomy

Written by Nathan Smith on November 11, 2014. Posted in iOS Apps, Mobile Apps.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/starmap-3d+-stargazing-astronomy/id351986992?mt=8

StarMap 3D Plus is the portable star atlas for beginners or advanced astronomers. Use StarMap 3D Plus to find the planets, stars, constellations, star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae visible to you based on your location and time. StarMap 3D will even use the compass to automatically align the map!

Use your iPhone's compass and gyroscope to find planets, constellations, satellites, and more with crisp, colorful, high-definition Retina graphics that use every pixel of your iPhone or iPad! Hold the universe in your pocket!

• No in-app purchases! StarMap 3D+ contains all of these features by default:

• Real-time positions of 100 artificial satellites, including the International Space Station (ISS), and the Hubble Space Telescope

• iPad Support

• Over 100,000 stars, with detailed information for each of them

• 6,441 deep sky objects, with details such as distance from Earth, diameter, apparent size and orientation, and morphology

• All 88 modern constellations, with lines based on the outlines from "The Stars: A New Way to See Them" by H.A. Rey

• MacRobert and Classic constellation lines also available

• Location-based-services (LBS) / Global Positioning System (GPS) support, or manually enter your longitude and latitude

• Adjustable date and time of day

• Also adjust time instantaneously and interactively with the Time Scroll feature

• Compass support, if present

• Planetarium Mode for seeing only objects visible to you, or browse the entire celestial sphere

• 3D Mode for visualizing the universe in three dimensions

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