Version 9.4 – Aug 9, 2020
- Added tap to expend telescope view
- Added tap compass button to toggle motion control
- Updated icons
- Fade out home bar
- Fix to manual location coordinate entry
- iOS Updates
Version 9.3 – Jul 19, 2020
- iOS Updates
- Fixed sharing
Version 9.2 – Feb 28, 2019
- iOS Updates
Version 9.1 – Sep 8, 2017
- Improved tracking for solar eclipse
Version 9.0 – Jul 4, 2017
- Faster motion tracking
- Pluto 3D image updated
- iOS Updates
- Bug Fixes
- Apple iAds switch to Google AdMob
Version 8.1 – Nov 16, 2015
- Time lapse control bug fix
- Comet updates
- Reduced download size
Version 7.1.1 – Jul 2, 2014
- Option to hide iAds after time delay (free iPad only version)
Version 7.1 – May 11, 2014
- Animated constellation images
- Popup 3D interactive planets
- 3D planets added to sky view
- Bug fix: Info ephemeris graph doesn’t update when returning from background
- iOS 7.1 motion updates
Version 7.0 – Nov 7, 2013
- Native iOS 7 support
- New iOS 7 look
- Voice
- Option to turn off screen text
- Improved responsiveness for iOS 7 on older devices
- Automatic comet data updates
- Revised comet magnitude estimates
- Night mode improvements
Version 6.2 – Sep 16, 2013
- iOS 7 compatibility
- Updated comet data
- Fixed bug opening wiki pages with Safari
- Night mode improvements
Version 6.1.1 – Mar 9, 2013
- Constellation boundary corrections
- Location editing bug fix
- Star data update
- Online User’s Guide
- Wikipedia links for popular comets
- Halley’s comet added by popular request
Version 6.1 – Mar 2, 2013
- Comets (universal version only)
- Danish language
Version 6.0 – Sep 26, 2012
- iPhone 5 widescreen support
- iOS 6 updates
- Requires iOS 4.3 or later
Version 5.2 – Jun 15, 2012
- Information button moved to center of screen. Touch center of screen or popup images to view object information.
- Improved object targeting
- Finder animations
- Bug fixes
Version 5.1 – May 20, 2012
- Graphics updates
- Bug fixes
Version 5.0 – May 4, 2012
- New iPad retina display support
- Time lapse object tracking
- Japanese language added
- Chinese language added
- Improved iPad Wikipedia browser
- Local language Wikipedia links
- Local language star names
- Selectable background images (universal iPhone/iPad version only)
- Magellanic clouds added
- Improved location selection
- Night mode improvements (iOS 5)
- iOS 5 updates
- Graphics updates
- Bug fixes
Version 4.6 – Aug 16, 2011
- Spanish language
- Italian language
- Wikipedia local language links for stars and deep sky objects
- Bug fix for devices using iOS 3.2.2 or earlier
- Bug fix for iPhone motion control in iOS 4.1
Version 4.5 – Jul 29, 2011
- Improved French translations
- Fix for crash on iPad version when displaying object information
- Fix for crash when attempting to set location on startup
Version 4.4 – Jul 19, 2011
- Moon phase calendar
- Sun rise/set times
- Interactive graphical ephemeris
- Fix for Wikipedia links
- Fix for date and time selection
- Fix for time zone selection
- Fix for compass calibration
Version 4.3 – Sep 13, 2010
- Improved night vision with preference settings
- iPhone 4 retina display updates
Version 4.2 – Aug 23, 2010 (universal version only)
- iPhone 4 gyroscope support
- iPhone 4 retina display updates
- Motion navigation improvements:
- Below horizon motion navigation
- More accurate screen positioning with touch drag
- Touch to freeze display in overhead mode
- Double tap to exit motion control
- Improved memory usage
- Compass calibration message not shown when compass disabled
- Bug fix for time control ephemeris data
- Bug fix for location latitude/longitude changes
Version 4.1 – April 30, 2010
- Update for iPhone OS version 3.1.2 or iPad OS version 3.2
- Improved finder graphics
- Improved performance
- Star light date finder automatically advances to birthdate
- Fix for low memory warning on iPad
- Fix for object finder
- Fix for location changes
- Fix for iPad popovers on rotation
Version 4.0.1 – April 8, 2010
- Universal app update for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
- Size of in app web browser increased for Star Tales
Version 4.0 – April 2, 2010 (iPad only version)
- iPad OS 3.2 release
- All new streamlined controls
- Birthday star finder
- Ability to search stars and DSOs by name, distance and magnitude
- Automatic location find on app startup
- More cities added to built in cities list
- Milky Way dims with star magnitude control
- Single accelerometer/compass disable preference
- Option to make text larger
- More WikiPedia links
- In app WikiPedia web browser (iPad only)
- Night mode improvements
- Improved graphics
- German language correction
- Touchless navigation starts below horizon
Version 3.4 – September 3, 2009
- Night vision improvements
- German language corrections
- Preferences fix
- Settings fix
Version 3.3 – July 18, 2009
- Support for iPhone 3GS compass navigation
- Improved accelerometer navigation
Version 3.2 – June 15, 2009
- Update for iPhone OS 3.0
- Fix for night mode with iPhone OS 3.0
Version 3.1 – May 1, 2009
- Update for iPhone OS 2.2.1
- Fix for Right Ascension display
- Star colors adjusted
- Star display magnitude adjusted
- Star Wikipedia links added
- Adjusted horizon color during daylight
- French, German, Dutch languages
- Dim Milky Way
Version 3.0 – April 1, 2009
Major update with many enhancements and improvements.
New:
- Over 200 images of planets and deep sky objects
- Planet, star, constellation and DSO ephemeris data
- Addition of Caldwell deep sky object catalog
- Milky Way display
- Location favorites
- Solar system and DSO wiki links
- Constellation Star Tales by Ian Ridpath links
- Night/Day transition
- Star colors
- Option to disable star coloring
- Option to disable accelerometer navigation
- Option to turn off horizon
- Option to show all deep sky objects or only ones above magnitude setting.
- Option to turn off Milky Way
- Option to turn off day/night display
Enhancements:
- All new time and animation control
- Improved startup time
- Flick gestures now supported
- Deep sky object symbols
- Improved text search
- Filter find on visibility
- Night vision display expanded to more screens
- Improved location setup
- Imperial units select
- Information is only displayed when objects are within the target area
- Information details button
- Change to find market graphic
- Touch hold with accelerometer navigation
Fixes:
- Magnitude slider fix for problem introduced with iPhone OS 2.X
Version 2.1 – August 29, 2008
- Moon added to finder
- Darker finder screens for night viewing
- Bayer star name designations
- Double tap below horizon view
- Default south view for southern hemisphere
- View direction saved on exit
- Constellation boundaries displayed as arcs
Version 2.0 – August 6, 2008
This version includes many feature requests and enhancements including:
- Time lapse animation
- Full Messier catalog of 110 deep space objects
- Stability improvements
- Equatorial coordinate display
- Object visibility indication in finder
- Guidance navigation arrow
- Navigation and display enhancements
Most importantly we have significantly improved the memory utilization which is the main cause of the stability problems reported by some people with the 1.X versions.
Version 1.1 – July 10, 2008
- Update to address memory issues
Version 1.0 – July 9, 2008
- Initial release