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on Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 07:14 PM GMT - 3619 Reads
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Bubba's Bits is pleased to announce the release of picoSky, a commercial planetarium application for cellular telephones...
Enjoy finding out what celestial objects are in the sky for your location and time when all you have with you is your cell phone. picoSky is a tiny Java application that harnesses the computational power of your cell phone to display a graphical representation of the night sky. Amateur astronomers can use picoSky to find out when their favorite globular cluster or nebula is going to rise. Professionals can use picoSky's advanced Julian day and sidereal time calculations when making an observation report. picoSky is so simple to use that anyone can use it to help answer questions about their night sky.
 picoSky Features:
- All stars brighter than magnitude 4.0 clearly visible in a graphic rendering of the sky. Dimmer stars needed to complete the constellation figures are also included, with an accurate reproduction of each star's color.
- Over 100 common star names, including all the standard navigational stars.
- Accurate calculations of the positions of the planets, Sun and the Moon for your location.
- An accurate representation of the current phase of the Moon.
- An intuitive way to determine what is in your sky currently, regardless of the size of your cell phone's screen.
- Wireless network access not required! If you?re lucky enough to find yourself at a very remote dark sky site, all of picoSky features will still work. picoSky has completely self contained databases and harnesses the computational power of your cell phone to create a graphical representation of the sky.
- Geometric figures and names for all 88 constellations.
- Over 250 of the brightest and most popular deep sky objects, with each type (globular cluster, open cluster, galaxy, nebula, planetary nebula, and asterism) easily identifiable. If available its common name is also included.
- Search for and find any star, constellation or deep sky object in picoSky's databases and obtain detailed information for that object. A quickly accessible menu also gives you detailed information about the Sun, Moon and each planet. For example:
. Distance from the Earth and Sun for the planets, Moon, and Sun
. Rise, Transit, and Set times
. Right Ascension and Declination coordinates
. Altitude and Azimuth coordinates
. The ability to view the object if above the horizon
. View what will be or what was in the sky for any given date and time within thirty years from the present.
.Access to a database containing latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates for every telephone area code in the U.S. for simple location selection. Or for more precision, enter your exact location in degrees, minutes and seconds of latitude and longitude.
picoSky is priced at a reasonable $19.95. Visit the Bubba's Bits Web Site for more information and to purchase picoSky or to download our Trial version: http://www.BubbasBits.com
System Requirements:
In order to run picoSky you will need one of the following cell phones:
Nokia: 3300, 3510i, 3520, 3530, 3560, 3595, 3650, 5100, 6100, 6200, 6220, 6610, 6650, 6800, 7210, 7250, 7650, 8910i, N-Gage
Motorola: T720, T720i, T721, T722i
Sony Ericsson: T610, T616, T618
If your cell phone is not listed above, try installing the Trial version of picoSky. The Trial version is a full featured version of picoSky that allows 5 trial runs. If you enjoy the way the picoSky Trial version runs on your phone, you will enjoy the Full version. picoSky was designed to be cell phone independent, so it should run on any color, grayscale or black and white J2ME compatible cell phone that accepts applications of at least 64K bytes in size, with a minimum of 150K bytes of heap space.
About Bubba's Bits:
Incorporated in the spring of 2003, Bubba's Bits was created to provide amateur astronomers with powerful tools for their cellular telephones. Its founders have been developing mass market commercial software since 1982, mostly in the video game industry. This unique mix of being involved in advanced amateur astronomy as a hobby and video game development experience combine well to create a company that can deliver powerful astronomy tools on the most limited of platforms. We intend on keeping our leadership position in the cell phone astronomy software market by delivering rock solid applications that our customers will wonder how they ever got along without.
CONTACT:
Kevin McGrath
Bubba's Bits, Inc.
support@bubbasbits.com |
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