Vito

AstroNavigator for Star Gazing
All-stars-in-hand application updated!

12th March, 2008 – VITO Technology releases a new version of AstroNavigator. It has become faster and more user-friendly. Updated AstroNavigator provides a wealth of new features. While setting up time you can immediately observe the star sky changing in accordance with your location and the time you set up. Pointing your location on the Earth is much easier on the scalable map and can be also done by selecting a town.

The users will be pleasantly surprised at how fast new AstroNavigator works. The loading time has been sped up significantly, the search of stars, constellations, towns is realised much quicker. The information about a star, constellation or planet can be seen in a separate window, where the animated image of the chosen object is provided together with the astronomical data. This prevents the main window from cluttering with info.

The possibility to watch stars not only above you but from any place on the Earth has been realized differently than in previous version. Now besides a more thorough scalable map of the Earth where you can choose any place there is an opportunity to choose a town from where you want to gaze at stars. The list of town names is pretty huge, so there is T9 search available. In a matter of seconds you find yourself in any place on the Earth and watch the stars that are seen from this place.

What is more, you can choose the moment for star gazing. The special setting for changing time allows you to put the year, month, date, hours and minutes. Isn't it cool to travel in time and space seeing the changes around you? Watch the stars at any time from any place on the Earth!

AstroNavigator is available for $19.95 at next generation windows mobile software and Pocket PC Software and Symbian Software - VITO Technology Ltd.

Useful links:
Pocket PC astronomy software for star gazing with gps – AstroNavigator.

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Timber82

Does anyone use this application I d/l'ed it but kind of lost like im not seeing the big dipper in the sky on my screen anywhere and like should I only be seeing on the screen what I can se up there? just a bit confused, anyone got any other recommended programs? I found a bunch of astronomy threads but not many first hand experiences

hstn

I've got it, but I manually select my location and use it without gps. Have you selected your location? When you do that, the program will have the sky that you should see about you. Along the top there are indications of the direction (North, South, East, West) that should help orient you. You can scroll around and up and down and find all the constellations in your sky at the moment.

Timber82

Ahh so your saying the big or little dipper may just not be veiwable in my sky at the moment? I was thinking maybey theres another name for them or something. I cant find the north star on their either.

I used the Gps to locate me and it worked, seems just as easy to just type my town in...

I wonder about a telescope well just binoculars or something.. any reccomendation on something to accompany this like I saw a prog that gives a bunch of details on each constelation and what not

hstn

I'm in North Carolina, USA; Astronavigator shows Ursa Major and Ursa Minor to the north at about 60-70 degrees high.

One other thought--do you have the constellation feature enabled? If not, press the tool button (with the wrench--third from the left at the bottom of the screen) and then select the middle button at the top (the one with the big/little dipper symbol). That turns on and off the identification of the constellations.

Timber82

Ill check it out when I get home, thabks for the insight!! Im assuming I just didn't see it because I was looking for "big dipper" not ursula