Comments on: Review: Explore The Heavenly Bodies With iWindows Mobile AstroNavigator II

By: Aislinn O'Connor

Aislinn O'Connor — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:30:34 +0000

There are some of us who have never studied Astronomy at school, and would love to have at least a basic knowledge of it. Till I read this post I had no idea there was any kind of gadget like this that would help identify constellations, etc., and the price of this one isn’t a major investment in starting to learn.

I’m very grateful for the information – thank you.

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The Mobile Genealogist » Blog Archive » Stargazing — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:40:47 +0000

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By: Doug Goldring

Doug Goldring — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:40:55 +0000

VW, I agree with you that this is clearly designed for a much casual user than Pocket Stars. I saw this as being almost an encyclopedia of the sky, rather than a star gazing tool like Pocket Stars.

Doug

By: vw

vw — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:43:58 +0000

I tried this out, and it isnt that good. Pocket Stars blows it away in terms of features and usefulness.

Things I didnt like about AstroNavigatorII:

1)As you stated, can’t change the magnitude of stars

2) cant navigate the sky too well, cant zoom out enough

3) Stars are tiny pixels, not too useful.

By: Tariq Bamadhaj

Tariq Bamadhaj — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:24:45 +0000

I reviewed this a couple of months back at Eten Blog and I totally enjoyed it. I am not too much of a stars person myself but when I used this with my Glofiish X500 which has a built-in GPS, it will orient the display to where I am facing which I found pretty cool.

I do agree that the finger friendly interface is awesome and what I would associate with iWindowsMobile.com software.

By: spmwinkel

spmwinkel — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:33:17 +0000

“If it is nighttime where you live, open up a door or a window and take look up in the sky. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Great…you’re back. So, what did you see? A whole bunch of twinkling lights? ”
Lots of clouds. And rain.

I’m not familiar with the details of astronomy software, but I do think that the graphics look more modern and polished than Nomad Electronics Pocket Stars. The 20 minutes trial is short though!