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

Clearly created by a star enthusiast for star enthusiasts. Great detail and depth yet easy to use

I love to use Distant Suns at our cottage where there is no electricity or cell coverage but billions of stars. Best app ever!!

Awesome app very usefull! Although my exact location cannot be identified, nova scotia, maybe add this to the list? Thankss

It wouldnt Load/Open All Day&Night Yesterday Nov.10/12 I Had Location On @ that time & tried everything (except full iPhone reset) Then I Tried With Location Disabled…Sure Enough It Work Weird & Has Since Even With Location On Now. Never Had A Prob Since Getting It. Well Now Its s  BestNightSky/SpaceApp.I Just Really Started Gettin Into Space-Watching/etc In Past Year & Love It I Watch EveryNight At Least. Distant Suns Has Made It So Much Fun, Better & Easier Thanks A Lot. 

I like it, thanks for this

This is the best app I have ever downloaded. I use it frequently when using my telescope to find fascinating things in the night sky

Terrific app. Use it nightly to see whats up & for general info on stars, etc. Very useful!

Lots of information, easy to use. Love it!

I just got this game today, and after downloading it, it just crashes 2 seconds after I open it. This app is a waste of time.

First item I try is Events, wouldnt you know it, for US only. Deleting app.

This app is everything you need to explore the night sky , super !!!

Lots of info on a wide range of topics but one criticism I have is that when scrolling through details of any item they will be cut short due to an inability to pull upwards.

Ive never seen worse touch accuracy in an app ever. It makes it nearly impossible to even select a star. Cool idea bad execution

PLEASE MAKE EVENTS IN CANADIAN TOO

Definitely not easy to use. Its complicated. If you dont want to see constellations, so sad too bad. Youre stuck with it. App is typically very unresponisve on the iPhone 5. No compass or direction calibration. Device quickly loses its calibration. However, app does have potential if developers spend their energy fixing these issues and adding basic options.

Revising my review because, in addition to everything below, with iOS 8, the app does not work very well (i.e. worse than mentioned already, like now compass mode (live tracking) only starts after you randomly go in and out of menus without changing anything, etc). I’m talking about storage space on my device; this app uses 0.4 GB of space after installing (and that is without adding any of the extra star/etc info), yet competing apps that have all the same data and similar options and display are about one tenth the size. I can’t understand what takes this insane amount of space (other than poor programming/implementation). In general, I like the app. The screen is rather ‘busy’, and has a steeper learning curve than most, but I prefer the sky display on it to some of the other apps (e.g. things like brightness of planets display more accurately than on other apps). Tons of option settings (though other apps are pretty similar), but bugs there where after rotating device a few times, the settings lowest on the screen can no longer be changed. Lots of other annoying bugs too, like the option switch bug, the info crosshair showing up in the wrong place, things like the compass directions sometimes showing and sometimes not (i.e. not obeying the ‘clear’ setting), and some of the options not working in both ‘clear’ and non-clear mode, etc.

Identify what is above your head.

For autistic children this application may be a long-lasting amusement.

Im very happy with Distant Suns. I have the iPod touch and can access nightly info even when Im not near a wifi connection.

Im very happy with Distant Suns. I have the iPod touch and can access nightly info even when Im not near a wifi connection.