The Sixty Symbols Solar System (playlist)
Deep Sky Videos - Messier Objects
(playlist)
APPS
Cosmographia
£1.99 - iPad
‘Immerse yourself in the most realistic and beautiful Solar
System simulation available for the iPad... Cosmographia
includes descriptions and data for all the objects you’ll visit,
so you have the story behind the visuals. All text is original
and customized for Cosmographia, full of links that take you
to live 3D views of interesting events and spectacular Solar
System vistas.’
SolarWalk – 3D Solar System Model
£1.99 - iPad, iPhone
‘This 3D Solar System model lets you navigate through
space and time, see all the planets in close-up, learn their
trajectories, inner structures, history of their exploration,
points of interest and more. It even has detailed 3D models
of the most interesting man-made satellites.’
Star Walk – 5 Stars Astronomy Guide
£1.99 - iPad, iPhone
‘Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve
ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your go-to
interactive astro guide to the night sky, following your every
movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over
200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information about
stars and constellations that you find.’
Sky Map
FREE - Android
‘Google Sky Map helps you to explore the Universe using
your Android phone. This practical app lets you pinpoint
the exact location of the stars, planets and other celestial
objects in the night sky. Simply point your phone at the sky
and you’ll see details of exactly what’s up there represented
by a map in Google Sky Map.
Planets
FREE - iPad, iPhone, Android
‘3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers. Use
Sky 2D to locate planets with flat view of sky, use Sky 3D for
a planetarium style view of the sky, visibility mode shows
times when planets are visible and globe mode is a rotating
3D globe of planets and moon’
Mobile Observatory – Astronomy
£3.99 - Android
‘Mobile Observatory is one of the most complete astronomy
apps on the Android market... The app does not only
include a live, zoomable sky map telling you what sky
object you are looking at but provides you with loads
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Deep Sky Videos – Telescope
Tours (playlist)
Deep Sky Videos – Astronomy from Sixty
Symbols (playlist)
TED Talks – Janna Levin – The Sound the
Universe Makes
Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries
of detailed extra information on stars, planets, deep sky
objects, meteor showers, comets, asteroids, lunar and
solar eclipses as well as detailed ephemeris of all included
sky objects and an interactive top-down view of the Solar
System’
FREE - iPad, iBooks, Non-Interactive PDF
‘Soar through the universe with the Hubble Space
Telescope, exploring discoveries from dark energy to
colliding galaxies. This highly interactive eBook features
video, image galleries and more to reveal the record of
scientific breakthroughs behind Hubble’s stunning images
of the cosmos.’
Space Images
FREE – iPad, iPhone, Android
‘Discover stunning images and videos of space, stars and
planets -- including Earth and the sun! -- at your fingertips
with the Space Images app from NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a leader in robotic exploration of the solar
system. NASA/JPL’s Space Images app offers a unique view
of the sky via hundreds of images taken by spacecraft
studying planets, stars, galaxies, weather on Earth and
more.’
The Interactive Space Book
FREE - iPad, iBooks
‘A collection of photos, information and videos compiled
from Wikipedia and brought together in an interactive
book on Space. Topics covered include early astronomy,
exploration of the solar system and the Apollo programme.’
James Webb Space Telescope
Science Guide
Moon Atlas
£3.99 - iPad, iPhone
FREE - iPad, iBooks, Non-Interactive PDF
‘Moon Atlas is an astronomy application that lets you use
pinch and finger gestures to manipulate a 3D globe of the
Moon. This is a rendered sphere and not a static map image.
As you zoom in more labels appear as finer detail comes
into view. You can double tap on the labels to get more
information about a particular feature.’
‘With a mirror three times the size of the Hubble Space
Telescope’s, and an orbit far beyond Earth’s Moon, the Webb
Space Telescope is preparing to show us a universe we’ve
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