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Solar System

Learn about the stars, the moons, and the planets with these astronomy apps.

Star Rover - Stargazing Guide

EEFan Inc.

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

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

Star Rover 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 is very easy to use. You can simply change the sky view in settings and use Quick Find 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 Messier objects.
- 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.
- Quick Find.
- Point and view (iPhone only, compass support required).

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Exoplanet

Hanno Rein

The Exoplanet app is a highly visual and interactive catalogue of all known exoplanets. Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars beyond our own Solar System. It is frequently updated whenever new discoveries are confirmed. An amazing model of the Milky Way lets you explore our universe all the way from the Solar System to the cosmic microwave background. This app has been developed and is maintained by a professional astronomer.

Main features:

* Interactive visualisations and animations.
* Physical properties of all detected exoplanets and their host stars, updated on a daily basis.
* Stunning 3D model of our Milky Way showing the location of all known exoplanets. You can zoom into any planetary system, explore how the night sky and the constellations look from the surface of other planets, or zoom out and see other local galaxies and galaxy clusters as well as the cosmic microwave background.
* Visualisations of exoplanet orbits and the habitable zone.
* Push notifications are sent out whenever a new planet is discovered.
* Augmented reality sky map: point the phone towards the sky to find an exoplanet!
* Interactive multi-touch correlation plots.
* Extensive background information on exoplanets and detection methods.
* Full support of planets in binary, triple, quadruple systems and orphan planets.
* Real-time ray tracing on the GPU.
* Experimental support for Philips hue (changes the color of the light bulbs according to the temperature of the currently selected star).
* Includes alternative identifiers from Uwingu.


Send comments, questions and suggestions to the developer at exoplanet@hanno-rein.de

You can also follow exoplanet announcements and updates on Twitter and Facebook:
http://twitter.com/ExoplanetApp
http://facebook.com/ExoplanetApp

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Mars Info Lite

Viktor Goltvyanytsya

Explore Mars using simple gestures to rotate a globe, tilt, zoom and select locations.
Credits -
Viking Orbiter MDIM 2.1 map of Mars - NASA
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio:
GMM-3 MOLA (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter) Topography map
GMM-3 Free-Air Mars Gravity map
GMM-3 Bouguer Mars Gravity map
GMM-3 Crustal Mars Thickness map

Features:
- Ability to pinpoint about 80 the most interesting areas on the map of Mars, including volcanos, craters, plains, mountains, spacecrafts.
- Displaying some information about the location, such as its name, type, short description, size and coordinates.
- Ability to select locations on the 3D globe and on the plain list.
- Zoom, rotation, tilt of the globe.

Lite version is limited to display 7 locations for each category, i.e. you will see 42 places vs 80 (currently) in a full version.

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Earth Explorer

Ronald Schmieder

Discover our wonderful earth from a completely new perspective on your TV.
Zoom up to a few meters at any place on the entire globe!
Switch between the night and day-view. Display geographical informations, such as national borders , city names and much more.
Rotate and seamless zooming!
Shows country names, borders, river names, streets and other useful geographic informations.
Discover for example your next holiday resort, before you'll be there.
Show your friends the places you've been already visited or simply explore the countries and cities you're interest in.

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The Science Show

John Kennedy

The Science Show is unique app for kids of High School and GCSE age or younger, combining specially commissioned mini-movies and background information into a highly watchable learning experience.

In this first release, the topics covered include:

* Comets
* Meteors
* Planetary motion
*Atomic structure

The topics are presented in an engaging way, with a short quiz for self-testing.

Ideal for the classroom to introduce a new concept, or for a quick revision of a topic at home.

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Mars Info

Viktor Goltvyanytsya

Explore Mars using simple gestures to rotate a globe, tilt, zoom and select locations.

Credits -
Viking Orbiter MDIM 2.1 map of Mars - NASA
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio:
GMM-3 MOLA (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter) Topography map
GMM-3 Free-Air Mars Gravity map
GMM-3 Bouguer Mars Gravity map
GMM-3 Crustal Mars Thickness map

Features:
- Ability to pinpoint about 80 the most interesting areas on the map of Mars, including volcanos, craters, plains, mountains, spacecrafts.
- Displaying some information about the location, such as its name, type, short description, size and coordinates.
- Ability to select locations on the 3D globe and on the plain list.
- Zoom, rotation, tilt of the globe.

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My Moon Phase Pro - Alerts

JRustonApps B.V.

My Moon Phase is the best app for tracking the lunar calendar. It has a sleek dark design which makes it easy to view information such as the current moon cycle, moonrise & moonset times as well as extras such as when the next full moon will be. If you're interested in moon photography, you can also find out when the golden hours and blue hours are so you can take the most beautiful photos.

- View the moon cycle for any date in the future by scrolling on the date bar or by tapping the calendar button!
- Either allow the app to use your current location or manually select a location of your choice to use!
- See how cloudy the sky is expected to be on upcoming days so you can work out whether you'll be able to see the moon or not!
- Find the upcoming moon phases straight on the main screen - you'll instantly know when the next full moon, new moon, first quarter and last quarter are.
- Golden hour and blue hour times are available to allow you to calculate when to take photos.
- More specific information is available such as the moon's distance from Earth, the age of the moon as well as the current altitude. This is available for any date on the lunar calendar.
- Receive notifications when the moon reaches a particular phase of your choice.
- Full support for iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus as well as iPad + iPad Pro.
- Apple Watch + Apple TV support!

If you want the most efficient way of keeping up with the lunar calendar and the current moon phases, then My Moon Phase is the right app for you. This version is similar to apps such as Deluxe Moon Pro.

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Astrology Horoscope Premium

CrazySoft Limited

2021 Astrology and Horoscopes Premium is the most luxury astrology, horoscope and numerology application. Learn your love horoscope in style. Use our super polished, lifestyle, console quality premium astrology app. Get detailed daily predictions of tomorrow and yesterday based on biorhythms. Daily horoscope / Dailyhoroscope not included. We use professional astrologers and give you the best results. This App can replace your personal Astrologer with horoscopes and details about all zodiac signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Scorpio with a very small cost. The app also includes Zodiac Matchmaking / Matchmaker that predicts the compatibility of two signs accurately. What my future? What about my boyfriend? Answer all your questions with our yearly horoscope. Get details and general information about Zodiac Signs like: About Love, Health, Likes / Dislikes, Problems / Solutions / Planet Ruling, Symbol, Color, Star-Stone and famous people. Detailed Numerology is also included. Its all there: Life path, birth day, challenge numbers, pinnacle cycles, period cycles and personal year cycle. We even have included birth information like: Chinese sign, your tree and birth color. Only hand reading - Tarot is not included. Predict the future with our yearly druid astrology, kundli, paddhati, bhava, kundli, astroslam & yodha.

Features:
* Super polished, premium app that saves up to 5 users.
* Daily Predictions. Get detailed daily predictions with text, based on Biorhythms. (Not Horoscopes)
* Yearly Horoscope. Predict your Relationship, Sex, Money and Health. Birth Chart not included.
* Astrology Compatibility - Matchmaking! Check horoscopes compatibility. Is he compatible with me?
* Numerology explanation. My future. Use the numbers to unlock your fate.
* Astrology / Zodiac Signs info. Do you know your planet? Your stone & color?
* Even more details like: Chinese sign, your tree and birth color.
* You can export all results to your email easily.
* Living room multiplayer! Up to 5 different users.
* Translated into: English, German, French, Greek.

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Mooncast

Mathieu Routhier

A simple and beautiful app to show the current phase of the moon.

- See the current phase of the moon in gorgeous details.
- Swipe your finger to change the current day.
- See the next full moon, the next new moon or any date between 2011 and 2030.
- Use the almanac to browse the predictions.
- Set up reminders for full moon or new moon.
- Know exactly at what time the moon will be perfectly full.

Additionally:

- Fully localized in english, french, spanish, italian, german and russian.
- Works well with all locales and calendars.

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