Astronomy

Encyclopedia - The World's Biggest Italian Encyclopedia

An Italian encyclopedia for mobile devices. Includes over 1/2 million articles.
An Italian encyclopedia for mobile devices.
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GEOMETRY QUICK STUDY GUIDE

An illustrated quick-study guide. Geometry Background and Triangles chapters are free in the trial version. Features include explanations of concepts and illustrations with graphs and diagrams.
An illustrated quick-study guide.
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TachyonNET

Award History: 
2006 Finalist
2007 Nominee
2008 Nominee
Advanced astronomy software that calculates ephemerides, has maps, skycharts, images, DSS, SDSS and a large number of options.. You can even control your Telescope remotely. It is by far the most complete and powerful software for astronomy in a Pocket PC, rivaling the most expensive Desktop applications.
Advanced astronomy software for Pocket PCs.
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$39.95
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$39.95
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@Sat Orbiter Locator+ SP

Track and display real-time trajectories of spacecraft such as the International Space Station & the Hubble Telescope. Plus, the new Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope and the Space Shuttle. Download the latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Infrared Telescope, the Mars Rovers Missions, and the Cassini-Huygens Mission.
Track and display real-time trajectories of spacecraft such as the International Space Station, & the Hubble Telescope.
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@Sat Orbiter Locator+

Award History: 
2005 Nominee
It tracks and displays the real-time trajectories of spacecraft such as the International Space Station, the Hubble Telescope, the Space Shuttle, and the Mars Rovers. You can download the latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars Rovers missions and view them on your Pocket PC.
It tracks and displays the real-time trajectories of spacecraft such as the International Space Station, the Hubble Telescope, the Space Shuttle, and the Mars Rovers.
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John Cody's SATALERT

Award History: 
2003 Nominee(Smartphone)
2005 Nominee
This program reminds you just before the space station is scheduled to fly over your own home city. It pulls the viewing times from NASA's website and automatically creates appointments (with alarms) on your device. Each generated reminder tells you exactly where to look in the sky, allowing you to see the space station with your naked eyes.
This program reminds you just before the space station is scheduled to fly over your own home city.
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$5
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TheSky Pocket Edition

Award History: 
2007 Finalist
2008 Finalist
Display the sky as it appears from your location for any date (4,713 B.C. through A.D. 10,000) at any time for any location on Earth using your Pocket PC. It shows the positions of over 250,000 celestial objects and the object's name, catalog number, location, magnitude, and position angle. Includes comprehensive context-sensitive help.
Display the sky as it appears from your location for any date (4,713 B.C.
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Jyotish Tools

Vedic astrology program that has divisional charts, ashtakavarga, transits, and scrolling dasha and bhuktis with pop-up pratyantar dashas. Features included are an ephemeris, a graphical ephemeris, the ability to import charts from Quick Jyotish and Junior Jyotish (desktop programs), and the ability to export charts to text or e-mail.
Vedic astrology program that has divisional charts, ashtakavarga, transits, and scrolling dasha and bhuktis with pop-up pratyantar dashas.
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$49.95
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$49.95
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VITO AstroNavigator

Award History: 
2004 Finalist
2005 Finalist
2006 Finalist
2007 Finalist
2008 Winner
It displays the actual star map based on your current location and can use GPS. It has a finger-friendly intuitive interface and is interactive. This app gives you the ability to learn planets, stars, and constellations.
It displays the actual star map based on your current location and can use GPS.
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Pocket Stars SP

Award History: 
2007 Nominee(Smartphone)
2008 Winner(Smartphone)
A portable guide to the heavens for casual stargazers, astronomers, and celestial navigators that works on Smartphones. Features 2D and 3D views of the solar system from any place on earth at any time. Includes Bright Star catalog, Messier and Caldwell objects, lunar phase, and rise and set times.
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Pocket Stars

Award History: 
2005 Winner
2006 Winner
2007 Winner
2008 Finalist
A portable guide to the heavens for casual stargazers, astronomers, and celestial navigators for the Pocket PC. A star chart as near as your pocket! Winner of Handango Best Education Application award and Smartphone and Pocket Magazine best Astronomy award. 3D solar system flythrough, GPS, VGA, Messier and Caldwell objects.
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AstroHTML

An astronomy reference in HTML, which includes details about stars, astronomic terms and position of major constellations.
An astronomy reference in HTML, which includes details about stars, astronomic terms and position of major constellations.
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$25
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$25

Pocket Deepsky

Award History: 
2005 Finalist
2006 Nominee
Pocket Deepsky provides telescope control for the LX200, Autostar, Nextstar 5/8, and Ultima integrated with a 10,000 object database displayed either one record at a time or in a spreadsheet format.
Pocket Deepsky provides telescope control for the LX200, Autostar, Nextstar 5/8, and Ultima integrated with a 10,000 object database displayed either one record at a time or in a spreadsheet format.
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$19.99
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