Star Chart

by Escapist Games Limited

Product Details

• ASIN: B004VSHFXW
• Original Release Date: December 20, 2010
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 8, 2011
Rated: All Ages This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (286 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #326 Paid in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Paid in Appstore for Android)
  • #10 in Appstore for Android > Education

Product Features

• Bring the stars to your Android
• Point it at the sky and know what you're looking at
• Identify stars, planets, constellation, and other stellar objects
• View either northern or southern hemispheres, night or day
• Customize your experience to view what you want

Technical Details

• Size: 14.5MB
• Version: 2.39
• Developed By: Escapist Games Limited
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • LOCATION
  • Open network sockets
  • Write to external storage
  • Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
  • Access information about networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 2 minutes

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

359 of 378 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Kindle Fire users please read! December 29, 2011

By Jessica Hurd

Amazon Verified Purchase

Now, the kindle fire does not have a GPS, so this app requires an extra step. you need to enter your own latitude and longitude. It's easy to find though because it only needs two decimal points. No long numbers to enter. This app is still a lot of fun. you hold it to match the sky and drag the kindle picture to follow your view. It has subtle underlying art of the constellations and has information about anything you tap. It's enough fun that it's worth entering the coordinates. One thing you can do is make a document listing the coordinates to places you often go and places you will be going.

141 of 156 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great app for the Fire December 15, 2011

By Pat

Amazon Verified Purchase

Nice app the only drawback on the Fire is that you have to manually enter your long and lat, just go to the google site that tells you where you are from address and enter.

103 of 116 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Very pretty, works great, no rotation in touch mode July 29, 2011

By M. S. Gartner

Amazon Verified Purchase

Star Chart is a very pretty application. It works great on my Motorola Xoom. Star Chart is much prettier than Google's Sky Map, but two features which that program has, that this program needs, are support for multi-touch rotation and time travel modes. Currently I haven't found any way to rotate the display when I am using the touch interface (am I missing something?).

For the search function I like the way Google's Sky Map does it a little better than Star Chart, but I like Star Chart's information display much better.

With Google's Sky Map out there I'm not sure I would have paid $3 for this app (though I might have), but for free I'll definitely use it instead and go back to Sky Map only for historical skies.