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''Star Walk'' is an application developed for iOS, Android, Amazon by Vito Technology presented in the mobile software market since 2001. The objective of ''Star Walk'' is to help astronomy amateurs, students and professionals locate and identify over 200,000 stars, planets, constellations and satellites in the night sky. Since its release ''Star Walk'' has been downloaded more than 5 million times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://money.cnn.com/gallery/magazines/fortune/2013/04/08/17-of-apples-favorite-apps.fortune/9.html )〕 ==Functionality== The application allows users to explore astronomical objects in real time, watch moon phases, meteor showers, iridium flares, see daily sunset and sunrise times, elevation angle, and day length. Most of the objects in the application are complemented with extensive information about them. ''Star Walk'' shows users a list of upcoming celestial events which they can add to the calendar and set a reminder for. Also, the application is equipped with time machine feature which gives an opportunity to explore the map of the night sky in the past and future. Besides, ''Star Walk'' uses iOS device camera for augmented reality feature. It combines the image data from camera with the star map to give the user a real time view of celestial objects. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star Walk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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