Starry Night College 1.2
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Publisher Description
The Starry Night College App for the iPad is the most comprehensive educational astronomy app - period. Use it with your introductory astronomy textbook or on its own. It's a powerful, portable planetarium that fits in your backpack. It puts thousands of stars and planets at your fingertips. It lets you find objects in the sky using your iPad’s built-in compass and accelerometer.
The Starry Night College App includes thousands of astronomical images, and contains encyclopedic descriptions of the constellations, stars and planets. 45 lessons are built in to the application. Integrated exercises are joined to hundreds of simulations, images and interactions! The exercises are even mapped to popular astronomy textbooks. A massive object database and the ability to leave Earth and fly into orbit around any Solar System object or nearby star is a most popular feature. It shows you 2.6 million stars, and 31,000 deep sky objects - including the entire NGC/IC catalog and it includes nearly 18,000 asteroids, comets, and satellites with updateable orbits.
The Starry Night College App for the iPad is guaranteed to make it easier for astronomy students to visually grasp the concepts of astronomy. You’ll be amazed at what you learn and what a great time you'll have with your course and this program.
Exercise Topics Include:
• Earth, Moon, and Sun
• Diurnal Motion
• Earth’s Revolution Around the Sun
• The Local Coordinate System
• Measuring Angles in the Sky
• The Celestial Sphere
• The Celestial Coordinate System
• Solar and Sidereal Days
• The Year and Seasons
• The Analemma
• The Moon
• Phases of the Moon
• Lunar and Solar Eclipses
• Precession and Nutation
• The Solar System
• Geocentric to the Heliocentric Model
• Planetary Orbits and Configurations
• Johannes Kepler and Elliptical Orbits
• Galileo Strengthens and the Heliocentric Model
• Modern Overview of Our Solar System
• Organization, Size and Scale of the Solar System
• Romer’s Light Experiment
• The Inner Planets of the Solar System
• The Outer Planets of the Solar System
Feb 18, 2015
Version 1.2
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Some lesson text has been edited for clarity.
- General stability improvements.
About Starry Night College
Starry Night College is a paid app for iOS published in the Kids list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops Starry Night College is Simulation Curriculum Corp.. The latest version released by its developer is 1.2.
To install Starry Night College on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2015-02-18 and was downloaded 58 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Starry Night College as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Starry Night College on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the Starry Night College is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
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- After Starry Night College is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
