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  1. Tony Stanistreet Says:
    December 12th, 2009 at 3:34 am

    Updated the latest Distant Suns app on my iPhone, but the ‘Now’ option won’t turn off.

  2. Greg Steffen Says:
    December 13th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    so is the PC version no longer available? I purchased ver 5.3 some time ago but wonder if I should find something else. I don’t have an iphone

  3. Dan Says:
    December 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    Will you be releasing a Distant Suns or Grand Tour for the Nokia n900 in the near future? Thanks!

  4. Jack Says:
    December 13th, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    Do you accept donations? I justinstalled on my iPhone and love it!

  5. proxima Says:
    December 14th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Hi Tony, the “Now” checkmark will only turn off if you set the date to some other time via the Date/Time dialog. I’ll see if I can make that a little clearer in the next release.

  6. proxima Says:
    December 14th, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    Hi Jack, well, your donation comes from buying the software. If you think it is worth more than the asking price, you’d always be welcome to make an extra donation via my paypal account.

    But the biggest “donation” is that you enjoy the software, show it around and hopefully bring some additional folks to the Distant Suns “fold.”

    Mike

  7. proxima Says:
    December 14th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    Not likely I’m afraid. I’ve worked on Symbian before and didn’t find it all that pleasant. Plus there is so much more to do on the iPhone stuff that I just wouldn’t have time for the next year or so.

  8. proxima Says:
    December 14th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    Hi Greg, right. The PC version is no longer sold or supported. There are a number of other good PC based astro programs out there to fill in the void. Although you don’t need an iPhone to run this, an iPod touch works just fine and is what I do most of my dev on.

  9. Garry Lay Says:
    December 16th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    I have a recently purchased i-pod touch and am interested in your software. Is it possible to email Hubble photos shown on Distant Suns to my friends?

  10. proxima Says:
    December 16th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    Not at present, but maybe for the future. You can get much better photos directly from here: http://hubblesite.org/

  11. TT Says:
    December 23rd, 2009 at 8:20 am

    Trying to purchase the full app from iTunes for the last day but every time I just get an error saying ‘This item is being modified. Please try again later’. Any ideas? iTunes store problem perhaps?

  12. proxima Says:
    December 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    Could be an appstore issue. My sales records for yesterday show that everything was about normal.

  13. Marcel Gravel Says:
    December 23rd, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    I belong to an Astronomic Club near Montreal.

    Suggestion. In the next version, for iPhone 3GS users, is it possible in your software to open the iPhone camera and to overlay the sky over this image. The movement of the sky will be synchronize to the iPhone movement using Lat, Lon, Alt, Pitch, Roll and Azimut. It would be a great utility. Thanks

  14. Kazon Says:
    December 24th, 2009 at 2:01 am

    Hi. It’s great app. I’ve been using the lite version for months and I just bought the full version v2.0.1.
    I like the clock and its animation. However the app crashes when I use the >> or << clock animations and the calendar reaches the current month and day. For example If I start the animation with 03/08/1970 as a start date it crashes when the date gets to 24/12/1970 while fast forwarding or 24/12/1969 while rewinding.

    I hope it helps.
    Thanks anyway.

  15. david pinsky Says:
    December 24th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    i was only able to open distant suns for the first time , but since it only shows the opening but will not load. what do i do?
    i paid for the full version

  16. proxima Says:
    December 25th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Hi David, i as able to reproduce this on one of my iPods. It has to do with a special “Christmas Treat” I had, which expires midnight today. Just set your device’s date to the 26th and it will work.

  17. Cresente Says:
    December 26th, 2009 at 4:40 am

    Hi Mike, many thanks for your hard work on Distant Suns. I remember playing around with a demo in the Windows 95 days. And it was awesome to see that it’s ported over to the iPhone. Just one thing, though. I remember in the old windows versions, there used to be this guidebook for that had facts for every day of the year. I forget what you called it. Any chance of incorporating something like that into future versions of the app?

  18. proxima Says:
    December 26th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    Thanks for the nice words. I am always glad to have one of the “old timers” back in the fold. I have been thinking of doing the Nightly Grabbag, but thats 365 new writeups to add, so an awful lot of work. It is on the list, but way down for the time being.

  19. JCausland Says:
    December 28th, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    Android, please, please, port this to Android. I’m a Verizon Droid junkie and an amateur astronomer. IPhone was the beginning, Android is the Future. Listen up.

  20. proxima Says:
    December 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    A colleague just got a Droid, and it does look very nice. But Droid programming is all in Java, and the iPhone is C, so I’d have to recode everything. If I could find someone interested in doing a port that would be great. But for the time being, it is an iPhone only product.

  21. Emmett Mullins Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    Wow! I’m enjoying Distant Suns on my iTouch. It brings me back to the old days of my Commodore Amiga – yep, I had DS way back in the late 1980s. Thanks for the 21st century version! :)

  22. Andrew Maloney Says:
    January 22nd, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    Hello,
    Distant Suns 2 is a great app. Could you look at including solar/lunar eclipse info and eclipse animation in a future update please?

  23. proxima Says:
    January 22nd, 2010 at 11:29 pm

    Hi Keith, go to Settings, and you’ll see “Notifications” near the top. Tap on that, and you’ll be able to control each of the different messages.

    I elected not to do a “touch and identify” mode mainly because the data density is so high most of the time, your finger will likely hit a half dozen objects, so DS won’t know exactly what you want. The little crosshair is less “natural” but much more precise.

  24. Russell Says:
    January 24th, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    Grand Tour also crashes for me when I touch Prefs., as well, if I use the clock forward or back.
    Otherwise, your apps are excellent.

  25. JC Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 3:39 am

    Just asking for confirmation that the full version is still for OS 2.2.1 or later (as the App store info indicates).

    I notice the free version requires 3.0 + and wondered why it would require an updated OS whereas the full version still runs on 2.2.1. (I have a 1st gen Iphone that I’m afraid to update further due to problems people have had after doing so… would love to be able to update, though!)

    My son is currently using the free version and LOVES it! Thank you for such a wonderful App!!

    BTW, I remember Distant Suns from my good ol’ Amiga days… :)

  26. JC Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 3:54 am

    Just asking for confirmation that the full version is still for OS 2.2.1 or later (as the App store info indicates).

    I notice the free version requires 3.0 + and wondered why it would require an updated OS whereas the full version still runs on 2.2.1. (I have a 1st gen I-phone that I’m afraid to update further due to problems other 1st-gen owners have had after doing so… would like to be able to update, though!)

    My son is currently using the free version on his Ipod Touch and LOVES it! Thank you for such a wonderful App!!

    BTW, I remember Distant Suns from my good ol’ Amiga days… :)

  27. Cyris Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:48 am

    Hey, congratulations on this. I’ve been a fan of this software for nearly a decade now and, though I do not have enough to afford it just tonight, I am very very happy to see it looking so good and up for sale. Good luck with it…sincerely. This software changed the way I see everything in the world. I’ll see what I can scrounge. ;)

    Peace and Happy New Year.

    C*

  28. TnIan Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 10:39 am

    Hi, Mike. I love DS – it’s one of my showcase “look what you can do with an iPod Touch” apps – but there’s one small UI thing that I wish I could turn off. When I tap a Sun/Moon/planet shortcut button, the sky pans to that object and then *zooms in*, so I have to manually zoom back out again. If you could make that auto-zoom optional, that’d be fantastic.

  29. proxima Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    Thank you for your kind words! I appreciate them.

  30. proxima Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    Yes, the full version will work on 2.2.1. I keep one of my iPods at that level just for testing. I’ll check in about DS-Lite, it shouldn’t require 3.0 to run. I probably had something set wrongly here.

  31. proxima Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    Possibly. There are lot of websites that do that very nicely already, so for the time being they are a good alternative.

  32. Phoebus Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 11:42 pm

    Sorry! AppStore is just scary because it tells you AFTER hitting puchase that you already own the app. Duh, my bad! Reinstall fixed the crashing caused by hitting “clear” by the way…

  33. Phoebus Says:
    February 2nd, 2010 at 8:22 am

    I would have sworn that the previous version allowed me to rotate the iPhone into landscape mode but not anymore. Am I hallucinating? One other thing I need to say: I’m a big fan! Thank you for doing this!

  34. Larry Says:
    February 9th, 2010 at 10:15 am

    I love the program. The only thing that is missing is a live Orrery so I can keep track of the positions of the planets. Otherwise, fantastic work.

  35. Milind Says:
    February 10th, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    I have downloaded the Distantsuns 2 on my iPhone and its awesome. I also want to get a authentic desktop version either to download or a CD. Can anyone give me a link?

  36. proxima Says:
    February 10th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

    So glad you like the software. The PC version is no longer available, it never played well with Vista, so I decided to concentrate on the iPhone instead. Been much more fun!

  37. proxima Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    Yup. I agree. It was one of those “seemed like a good idea at the time,” things.

  38. gg90fr Says:
    February 26th, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    hello fm france
    seems really good, but need to be translate in french, and then I shall buy it
    thank’s
    gg90

  39. proxima Says:
    February 26th, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    Unfortunately, Distant Suns has a lot of written content, so a translation would be pretty time consuming. For the time being, it’s going to have to be english only I’m afraid.

  40. Piet Says:
    February 27th, 2010 at 1:56 am

    Hi Mike,

    Brilliant app. One thing I was really looking forward to when I saw the screenshots on the app store, was the ability to overlay the stars onto the actual sky as seen through the camera. This is something that was not possible with pocket universe, so you incorporated the “twilight planner” mode that makes this possible. However, twilight planner mode does not turn to landscape mode when i turn my phone, but the normal mode does. Can you please make twilight planner also handle landscape, as currently the labels don’t turn, and the compass still thinks you’re holding the phone in portrait mode, which doesn’t update orientation and position.

    I’m really looking forward to an update on this. Good job ;)

  41. Stuart Says:
    February 27th, 2010 at 3:28 am

    Hi,

    Bought the distant suns app for my wifes iphone and i love it…. then i bought a nexus one for myself and google sky doesn’t compare… When you making this for android?? Though android is a baby right now (5.2%) of the market, remember it doubled its market share in 3 months and is expected to pass iphone by 2012…. very likely considering its open nature and the amount of manufacturers taking it up and also verizon about to start promoting it… please consider android!!..

    but yes lovely app on the iphone… almost makes me want to change my nexus for an iphone hehe and im not even a great fan of astronomy :)

  42. proxima Says:
    February 27th, 2010 at 11:47 am

    Hi Stuart, I have had a lot of requests for an Android version. Not sure if that will ever be though, as I use all of my free time on the iPhone one. Plus Android software is all Java, so it would mean rewriting everything, not just the iPhone specific stuff.

    You can always get an iPod Touch for yourself. Reconditioned ones from Apple are pretty cheap, and there is no mucking around with AT&T.

  43. Sergio Ilovaisky Says:
    March 2nd, 2010 at 3:53 am

    Hello,
    I am a professional astronomer and I have bought the iPhone app which I enjoy a lot. I have to point out that the parallaxes listed in the info boxes are too small by a factor of 1.35 (an average value). However, the distances quoted are accurate. I suggest that you check the database being used and correct those parallax values !
    Cheers,
    Sergio

  44. Alasdair Simpson Says:
    March 8th, 2010 at 11:07 am

    Hi,

    I was surfing the iTunes Store (for work not pleasure if you can believe that) and I came across your app. As something of universe enthusiast (aren’t we all?) I have to say it looks so beautiful and it’s a great idea. Sadly I don’t have an iPhone but if I did I would certainly get Distant Suns.

    Anyway, I represent Oxford University Press and was wondering if you would be interested in licensing some of our content, specifically ‘A Dictionary of Astronomy’. It’s got biographies on eminent astronomers like Ptolemy and Hubble and also entries on Big Bang Theory, galaxy evolution etc. I thought it would sit quite nicely with this app.

    If you’re at all interested do get back to me.

    Keep it up!

  45. F. Aura Says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 1:34 am

    Hi,

    just wanted to highlight that I love this App and that I would find it even greater if notifications on particular events (eclipses,comets,star showers) on a location dependent basis?So far,the closest feature I’ve seen is the ‘monthly highlights’,but it does not show that kind of events.

    Cheers,

    Frank

  46. Tim Corcoran Says:
    March 20th, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    I just have to say that GT 3D is one of the greatest apps I have ever seen on the iTouch. I can’t stop playing with it. Too bad, because as a developer I should be working on my own apps :-)

    Feature Idea: I’d love to be able to position the camera on the “surface” of a planet and watch the movement of the moons overhead. I’m not asking for atmosphere and excruciating detail, just the image of transiting moons from the planet surface (or vice versa). I got this idea thinking how cool to watch Charon from Pluto (i.e. stationary in the sky, a permanent fixture as the universe passed behind :-)

    Fervent Hope: Will there be an iPad version of GT 3D. I dream of GT 3D on the big screen :-)

    Keep up the good work,
    Tim

  47. michael facchiano Says:
    March 29th, 2010 at 11:02 am

    do any of your screensavers work in windows 7 on a desktop or laptop ?

  48. proxima Says:
    March 30th, 2010 at 9:30 pm

    Yes, the old Grand Tour screensaver does work on Windows 7. Just tried it last night.

  49. Dan Says:
    April 7th, 2010 at 6:32 am

    I love this app. FYI there is a typo on the distant suns iphone app. In the Help section, under preferences, under the stars paragraph, the last line reads: “many more stars then you can see.” this should read: “many more stars than you can see”

  50. David Says:
    April 7th, 2010 at 6:37 pm

    I first started using Distant Suns on the Amiga. I’ve since used it on the PC, the iPhone and now the iPad. Thank you Mike for a truly amazing program and for keeping Distant Suns going. In my opinion it is the best astronomy program.

  51. Wyk Says:
    April 12th, 2010 at 6:33 am

    I have an iPod touch so I can’t  use the DS compass feature.  Would it be possible to add an option to  manually calibrate the compass? People can use a real compass to find the four cardinal points and then calibrate the DS compass accordingly.

    If the compass feature worked on the iPod, then I could build a mount to  mount the iPod  to my telescope, and use DS as computerize “push to” system.  

    Another option would be to mount the iPod to the telescope first, then calibrate the DS compass by aiming the telescope to two stars.   

  52. ddken Says:
    April 15th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    How do you enter manual GPS coordinates in Distant Suns on iPad? I don’t live near a city so Location Services doesn’t work (not enough cell towers). The city list isn’t much use either. I go to prefs/System/Set Lat Long but I see no way to enter actual lat/long details, just choose between home & away. This is a deal breaker. Please help. How can I enter lat/long?

  53. Tom Says:
    April 23rd, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    I just got a banner on my iPhone saying that Distant Suns 2 for the iPad will be on sale through April 24th.

    I hope you will consider extending the sale through at least April 30th, so those of us who are patiently waiting for our iPad 3G’s will be able to take advantage of the sale!

  54. proxima Says:
    April 24th, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    You can buy iPad software before you get the iPad. I had over 100 sales before the ipad was actually available. (!)

  55. F. Aura Says:
    April 26th, 2010 at 10:16 am

    Great SW! Enjoying it more and more…

    Regarding the moon, two little things:
    - when trying to select it on the sky application, the data button does not work (it prompts to “select an object first”). Not critical at all, of course, since such data are available from the Planets’ list, but…
    - The distance reported: is it the actual current distance or an average all over a moon orbit cycle?

    Thank you!

  56. Cynthia Says:
    April 26th, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    I recently purchase the app for my iPhone and love it. I had to replace my iPhone because it broke, how do I get the app back on my iPhone since I have already paid for it?

    Thank you!

  57. proxima Says:
    April 30th, 2010 at 10:36 pm

    That’s been fixed in the most recent release. It was one of those things that just slipped under the door.

  58. Kristel Says:
    May 1st, 2010 at 7:16 pm

    I would love to be able to see Plieades on Distant Suns; also, it would be spectacular to have a search feature (i.e., to search for whatever constellation etc. you want to find.).

    Love the program though, it is great!

  59. Dave Ergo Says:
    May 5th, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    A *BIG* request — I use “Brand X” on my laptop (Starry Night, if you must know), and one of the things I really like about it is that I can select different outlines of the constellations… including the outlines from H. A. Rey’s “The Stars: A New Way to See Them.”

    Any chance you might include these outlines as an option some day? When you’re bored, with nothing else to do?

    Many thanks —

    Dave

  60. Bob Tobias Says:
    May 8th, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    First, thanks for a great app for my iPad, esp. for the price! And secondly, just wanted to let you know about a small typo. The identifier for the galactic center is misspelled “galacic center”. Best regards, Bob

  61. Paul Says:
    May 10th, 2010 at 7:32 pm

    I love the iPad app and was wondering if you had plans on adding support for the video output so I could drive a projector with my iPad video cable.

  62. proxima Says:
    May 10th, 2010 at 7:35 pm

    Hi Paul, well…I bought the video cable and breathlessly awaited its arrival to see “my precious” running on a monitor that I could then use for classroom use. But alas, the iPad’s video output makes it next to impossible to do gestures. So all I could show was a still image. Bleh. There are ways to do what I need, but they’re not Apple approved.

  63. proxima Says:
    May 10th, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    Hi dave, I’ve had a number of similar requests, but I am not sure if those Mr. Rey’s outlines are copyrighted or not. I’ll investigate further.

  64. Wayne Conner Says:
    May 13th, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    In the information panel for the planet Neptune, the Description is that of Venus.

  65. proxima Says:
    May 14th, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    It looks fine on my box. Sometimes I have noticed things go wacky in the data department but only after using it for a long time. Something very hard to track down. restarting should clear it up.

  66. Brian B Says:
    May 19th, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    This is a great app I love it, but I was wondering if there is a way to check satellite postions it would be a cool feature.

  67. Josh m Says:
    May 19th, 2010 at 11:21 pm

    Great app!!!!! Is there any way to show satilite orbits in the app. That is the only thing I feel is missing. Today is 5/19/2010 and iss has passed over everynight along Hubble. If I could use the app for stargazing and sat tracking it would be so great.

  68. Dan Says:
    May 21st, 2010 at 8:25 am

    I purchased DS for iPhone in late March and have just purchased an iPad. Can I upgrade to the iPad version. Is there any cost?

  69. proxima Says:
    May 21st, 2010 at 10:16 pm

    As of now there is no way the Appstore let’s us couple apps together for bundles or “sidegrades.” But monitor my twitter feed where I do announce special sales or contests to help the iPhone DS owners to move to the new platform.

  70. proxima Says:
    May 21st, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    Wish I could, but that’s a significant bit-o-coding. However having the ISS would be pretty neat.

  71. proxima Says:
    May 21st, 2010 at 10:18 pm

    For the time being, yes. Check the front page of this here blog where it explains the why of this issue.

  72. Cynthia Says:
    May 31st, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    How do I get you to stop sending me unsolicited messages on my I phone?

  73. proxima Says:
    May 31st, 2010 at 1:56 pm

    If you are talking about the “push notifications”, you should have been asked by the system if you wanted to receive them on installation of any app that supplies them. To stop them go to Settings->Notifications and you’ll see a list of all apps registered for this feature. From there you can turn off whatever messaging you don’t want.

  74. Art Says:
    June 2nd, 2010 at 12:47 am

    I’m running Distant Suns 2 on iPad. So awesome! Best UI ever for astronomy! One request – it would be nice if the “What’s Up? screen showed the date and time too.

  75. Emma Says:
    June 4th, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Does your program include meteor showers?

  76. proxima Says:
    June 6th, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    Not yet. That’s on the list. And major meteor showers I can announce via Apple’s notification feature.

  77. David Says:
    June 22nd, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Love Distant Suns. Just upgraded to DS3.

    A few questions.

    Can distance be displayed in km or ly or ls where appropriate?

    Will the distance to the moon be fixed. Currently it is 0.00 light seconds. That’s too close.

    It’s nice to know the sun is HOT! even on cold cloudy summer days in June. Will you be telling us more about the Sun?

    And finally, is there any way to see the names of the planets in the What’s Up display, when the planets, and the names, overlap.

  78. proxima Says:
    June 22nd, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    Yes.

    Yes. Too close.

    It’s really really hot!

    Not easily, making objects like that avoid collisions is a pretty complicated problem. Similar with the names of the stars in the Pleiades.

  79. wordxword Says:
    June 25th, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    I just wanted to let you know that your announcement about Project Astro a few twitter-weeks ago perked my interested and I submitted an application. Thanks for the tip! I assume DS3 will work swimmingly on the iPhone 4. DS2 is great. Thank you for helping find more of the the lost, inner astronomer of my youth.

    mb/wxw ~ Mendocino County CA

  80. Nikolakas Says:
    July 5th, 2010 at 1:18 pm

    Dear sir,
    This is the first app purchased for my iPad, and I better say that I bought iPad just for your app. I still remember back in 1987 (aged 16) when I bought my, still in operation, A500 that DS was one of my favorites! Back then I had a dream just like you: a mobile cosmos in my pocket. Fortunately for us amateur astronomers the dream took only some 25 years to become reality. Thank you for your efforts to bring it to our hands. Thank you.

    Nikolakas

    Ps. A small request. Is it possible to add a switch to hide the sky below horizon?

  81. proxima Says:
    July 5th, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    Hi Nikolakas, thanks for the wonder sentiments. It is always nice to hear from the Amiga guys. Your request for the horizon has been made by another couple of folks, so it is at the top of the list for 3.1 iPad and 2.2 on the iPhone.

  82. Yanik Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 4:51 am

    For the IPhone/IPod app (distant suns 2) could you please add the positions of comets and asteroids (with information about them) in the 3D sky!?!?! Could you also maybe add the position of satellites in the 3D sky????? And one more thing, could you also add the times for the meteor showers and the information?!?! Thank you sooooooo much for making SUCH a great app!!! It has helped me a lot when I am trying to find things with my telescope!!!!!

  83. Yanik Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 8:42 am

    And could you also please add times for solar eclipses and lunar eclipses and the location???? This was definitely the best buy ever for my iPod!!!! Thank you soooo much for making this!!!!!! EVERYONE SHOULD GET THIS APP!!!!!

  84. Don Says:
    July 14th, 2010 at 2:29 pm

    I appreciate Weather Planet but will the scale ever become larger than half the U.S.? As a photographer that appreciates shooting on cloudy days, a larger, at least statewide scale, would help in planning trips.

  85. proxima Says:
    July 14th, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    Thanks for the kind words. Eclipses can be handled via push notification. Real accurate localized predictions are best fetched from http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html

  86. John Says:
    July 15th, 2010 at 10:20 pm

    Hi I love your apps but I really think they should be upgraded for the hi-res screen of the new iPhone4 especially DistantSuns3 which is sold as “HD” in the iTunes store! They’d be so beautiful without the ragged edges around the planets caused by the low res rendering.

  87. proxima Says:
    July 15th, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    That is definitely in the works right now. Just got in some of the final artwork.

    The “HD” is the standard term use for iPad software, not retina display stuff. It does look very nice on the ‘4.

  88. Ryan Says:
    July 30th, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    Android version??

  89. Larry Banowsky Says:
    August 1st, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    I cannot figure out how to get the constellations’ mythology information. Where do I go?
    Thanks,
    Larry

  90. proxima Says:
    August 1st, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    Go to the constellation list, and click on one of the > buttons. It will show you the constellation’s artwork. Click on Data and takes to the specifics.

  91. Brian Hamilton Says:
    August 11th, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    I cannot find any information on upcoming meteor showers. The Perseids Shower is not listed in the August events and I have not received any alerts about it.

  92. Woody Says:
    August 11th, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    Howdy:

    I’m enjoying your fine app, but was surprised to go to the “Other : Monthly Highlights” area and find no mention of the Perseids ( or any other ) meteor showers.

    It would be nice to know when these are coming and where best to look for them based on my location and time, etc.

    Otherwise, keep up the great work!

  93. idyoyoyid Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 3:16 am

    How to open and read the event alerts message when the program running?
    There is no toolbar can do this matter.

  94. Peter Bernardy Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:50 am

    Hello,
    Am using Version 2 on a 2nd gen iTouch. Love it! Any advantage to upgrading to version 3?
    Thanks!

  95. Suzanne Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    I just received a notification about a half price offer tonight on version 2 and 3 but the iphone app store still has it at full price.

  96. Oliver Decker Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    Hi Mike,

    I am using DS3. Outstanding program. I am a professional pilot and often fly long flights over the pacific at night. My iPad with DS3 is my permanent companion.

    One thing I miss (and would make the software perfect), is the inclusion of meteor showers. Another option, which would be great: being able to set the elevation at a specific viewing location :-)

    Thanks for this fantastic software!

  97. proxima Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    Sorry for not having meteor data in the app. Since the dates of the peak vary from year to year, I decided to use push notifications to report on major showers. That’s actually very clumsy as it turns out, so since enough folks have commented on this, I’ll add in shower tables before the next big one in November. Thanks for taking the time to write.

  98. proxima Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:38 pm

    The Apple’s push notification system is ending up being very clumsy for those kinds of alerts. I am going to try and refine for future use.

  99. proxima Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:40 pm

    Oh by all means! DS 3 is a melding of Distant Suns 2+Grand Tour. So instead of just watching Jupiter from earth you can travel out to it and examine it up close. However it prefers a little more rugged equipment than the Touch 2G, although I do use that for some testing.

  100. proxima Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    Hope you were able to check back on this. It looked good to me, but maybe the price change didn’t migrate to the particular server that was showing you that particular page.

  101. proxima Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:42 pm

    An “oops” from the boss. I hope they’re gone by now. See my posting on the front page.

  102. proxima Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    Great! I love hearing about how people use the thing. Must be lovely in the cockpit at night. Meteor showers coming up in the next few weeks.

  103. Rich Says:
    August 19th, 2010 at 9:20 pm

    Can’t you offer us a way to modify constellation lines and fonts? Those items are really hard to see.

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