The App Store created at about 250 000 applications, but few of them can surprise and delight to the users. One of the exceptions to the rule - Star Walk. This program, created by Russian developers, was awarded the Apple Design Awards, often glimpsed in advertising aypada. In addition, it is one of the most popular applications in the category "Education" (but now Star Walk and all took first place in the list of paid programs for the iPad in the US store).
Star Walk - Astronomy is an interactive guide, which the developers call a personal planetarium. The program makes extensive use of all the "chips" aypada, such as an accelerometer with a magnetometer (digital compass to work). You can take aypad, bring it up at the sky and Star Walk will show you the names of the stars and constellations, which aims tablet. Aypada change the situation and learn about new stars.
Star Walk provides detailed information about celestial bodies. How many last day on Saturn? How many Earth days in a year on Mars? What is the temperature on Venus? Are there moons for Pluto? What is the age of the sun and what the temperature on its surface? Answers to these questions can be found in the Star Walk.
The program is a virtual telescope that can be used to study the sky, a time machine that allows you to "transfer" of the past and the future "and a separate mode" Picture of the day. " Daily Star Walk has a new picture of the constellations and nebulae, made by NASA (often - with the Hubble Space Telescope) and a short description. If you are interested in space and astronomy, to return to the application will often :-)
The main drawback of Star Walk - description to the "Picture of the Day" is always given in English (all the other reference material available in Russian), ie child without your help can not sort out. But in general, Star Walk - a great app. I think in the very first it is necessary to pay attention to family people. Engage children's space, will not be bored. :-)
Star Walk is available for iPhone ($2.99), But in all its glory the application behaves on the iPad ($4.99).