POCKET STARS
Nomad Electronics Pocket stars is a high accuracy star chart,
almanac to year the 2030, and celestial navigation calculator for PC, Pocket
PC, and Windows mobile Smartphone. It is the ultimate portable astronomy tool.
Star Chart features
include: animation of the sky in increments of hours, days, weeks or months;
black, white and red star chart colors for night vision; user location set by
clicking on map, city or lat/long. The star charts may be printed.
Celestial
navigation features: sight reduction for any of 9110 stars, the planets, sun,
and moon; corrections for dip, refraction and vessel movement; all observations
can be used to find a best fit fix with a 95% confidence ellipse; rise, set
and meridian times for all solar system bodies; calculations for great circle
distance, range and bearing, horizon distance, and much more.
The CD includes
both PC and PDA programs, as well as a tutorial video and printable user manual.
Pocket Stars PDA runs on Pocket PC 2000, 2002, Phone Edition, and Windows Mobile
2003 devices. Major others are: iPaq, Axim, and all other ARM Pocket PCs. Pocket
Stars PC runs on W- 98/SE/ME/NT/2000/XP. SW 1.0 lb.