Vito Technology has just released a major update to their astronomy program for iPhone, StarWalk.  If you enjoy astronomy, check out the specs on this new version, as you won’t be disappointed.  Here is the link to our recent JAMM review of Starwalk <VITO Invites You To Walk the Stars with StarWalk v1.5>

Here are the details from Vito regarding the new release:

Star Walk now with Digital Compass and Help Guide upgrade becomes the best, most dynamic astronomy guide on earth!

Vito Technology added the ”Star Spotter” function to give its users  the virtual sky in their hand, what a better time than summer nights to start enjoying it.

To activate the Star Spotter function you simply have to tilt your phone, move it with you and the sky will follow the movements displaying dynamically on the screen what people are looking. The view will be augmented with all the related info that Star Walk includes. This way nobody will be never short of words to name your stars!  The function is easy and straight forward but for any doubts Vito Technology added the new Help Guide (?).

More Amazing functions from Star Walk:

TIME MACHINE (included in the Help Guide): click on the clock icon and date and time will be displayed. Slide your finger on the hours and the sky will start moving accordingly. Touch year, month and time and change depending on what you want to see, the display will adapt accordingly to show you how stars and planets were aligned at that time.

MOON PHASES: select the moon with the touch of your finger, click on -i – symbol to enlarge the image and start the clock to watch moon phases. You can do the same with all other planets and stars.

FINDER: if you can’t find the star, planet or constellation you are interested in, click on the magnifier symbol and a list of all of them will appear, select it and the display will locate it for you.

Wikipedia links: select one celestial corpse and click on the – i – icon to activate the magnifier and read main information about it. To know more click on the -w – icon at the bottom of the table ad the wikipedia page will open up

SETTINGS: with the bottom right icon you are given different options. You can change the screen with night mode, select brightness, put sounds on or off, find and select location and start you list of favorites.

Also on previous version (1.5) we included

• Pictures of all constellations

• Deep sky objects (Messier)

• Meteor showers
• Wikipedia links

• Real 30 FPS

• Search Function

• Magnitude selection

For those and many more reasons Star Walk has also been selected as the Official Product for IYA2009 (international year of astronomy2009)**