Distant Suns: The new way to look at the sky App Reviews

Distant Suns, Planets and Star Walk. These are the best app to Sky Watchers.

You can see that love went into making this one! Merci

The program will not scroll at all on my 1g itouch. There is no method to select stars to get alt az or other info. Using Mr Clarkes name to sell a incomplete product seems to tarnish his wonderful memory.

Wealth of information including amazing images from Hubble space telescope! As a former user of Distant Suns for Commodore Amiga I could not believe that it could be possible to have that App on the iPhone. The only thing Im missing is the simulation mode where it would be possible to predict the view of the sky for any date. Overall 5 stars for the surprise effect! Thank you!

With the recent update, the ability to use any place and time makes this a keeper. A few tweaks and this would be a 5-star application. The Place/time selection is rather cumbersome - a map/crosshair arrangement or even the ability to type in Lat/Long would be an improvement over the silly iPhone spinning wheels. When you change locations via Lat/Long, the time selection creates questions. Is it Zone Time, LMST, DST etc.? Some clarification here would be nice. Some star data seems to be missing (Beta Crux, Gamma Crux for example) and crosshair selection on the Sun and Moon leading to Rise/Set/Phase/Transit data would be nice. But these are all wish-list items that would make a very good planetarium application into a great one.

Distant Sun (lite) is great, but Distant Sun (unleash etc,) is super great! Buy it and have everything an astronomer could ever want, in the palm of your hand everywhere you go! The extras (over lite) are well worth it!

I took a bit of astronomy back in university, but until I got this app it was only really a passing interest. Having a detailed, customizable starmap on my phone, however, has changed everything. The experience of stepping out at night into my own front yard and comparing whats on the screen to whats in the sky, easily being able to spot Mars and Saturn, and following the constellations as they inch westward night after night is almost, for lack of a better word, spiritual. As for the program itself, its intuitive, well organized and offers a wealth of extra features, from the superfluous to the essential. I especially like the "Figures" option, which brings up the mythological figure associated with whichever constellation you bring to the centre of the screen. The author has been diligent with updates, and the majority of tweaks over the past few months have been for the better. I do hope future editions will have more detail on the Jovial moons and other objects in the solar system. Id really like to see some integration between this app and the same publishers Grand Tour 3D. It would also be great to have a simplified version for children. Im considering buying an iPad just so I can experience this software on a bigger screen.

Fabulous app must have for all wannabe astronomers.

Use this app all the time and never use my Celestron Skyscout anymore :) I allways have my iPhone so find it super handy.

This is a great app. Before I got this I had never seen a galaxy or anything of the sort. Now I am seeing galaxies, clusters, nebulae and many more things every time I have a stargazing session. Just last night I saw the ring nebula, two globular clusters and a galaxy. The greatest part is that it requires no Internet. Anytime anywhere i can use this. Its great or the cottage and its red nighttime mode is great. To anyone looking for a starmap app, I highly reccomend this one. Its well worth your money.

I would recommend this app to anyone even mildly interested in astronomy. A wealth of information whenever you want it. Well worth the money! Get it!

Wonderful app that has helped me, a beginning astronomy hobbyist, locate some amazing objects. I have three of these kinds of apps and use this one the most.

This is quite a good app, it has always worked well until recently I have been noticing that the whats up page isnt functioning properly. It does not stay in synch with the main program, ie. The objects are not in their proper position relative to where they are on the main skyview page, frequently, duplicates of each planet are displayed, also if the time is changed, the planets positions are not updated properly. Other than this, it has been very nice. Please post an update to correct this and receive 5 stars in my next review.

Was a big fan of this apps in the Amiga days! And the latest update is much More faster than the previous release. Work fast even on my gen1 33gb iPod touch Great work!

The update finally brought the hugely nerdish beauty of this app into apple-worthy ergonometrix. Well done. I will not upgrade to 3. This finally out-does Goskywatch, which was my standard. Always wanted this app to succeed.

Cant get enough of this application.

I can see Jupiter right now!

Probably my favorite!

Good enough for Arthur C Clarke - good enough for me. Truly, a most exceptional app.

Great app but better on a tablet then a smart phone