SkyMap 2 for Windows Phone

We released version 2 of SkyMap for Windows Phone. There are a lot of changes in the new version. The application has a  completely new map rendering. It uses XNA, taking advantage of the phone’s GPU. All drawings are performed frame by frame, in real time. Another big difference is the way the application calculates…

SkyMap for Windows Phone 7.5 Gets Full Point to Sky Experience

SkyMap application for Windows Phone was recently updated to version 1.5.  What is SkyMap for Windows Phone 7? SkyMap provides interactive sky maps for any time, viewpoint and location on Earth. It shows the different names, coordinates, magnitude, astronomical rise and set times plus additional information for over 110000 stars, messier objects, planets, sun and…

2 free apps for windows phone: AstroPix and SkyMap Free

We’ve recently published these 2 new free apps for Windows Phone 7. I hope people will find them usefull during summer time. SkyMap Free works fine offline – so if you’re camping, away from light polution, but with no phone/data coverage, you can still use SkyMap Free. AstroPix is a NASA’s APOD viewer. It’s a…

SkyMap for Windows Phone 7

This was an interesting project and a lot of exprience to gain out of it. The idea was old. And I already have the code to draw sky maps from my own website skymaponline.net. But it was not as easy as I thought it will be. Because the progamming on Windows Phone 7 is… an…

Sky Map Online – new features

During the last few months, I’ve continued working on Sky Map Online website and I’ve improved my astrophotography skills (including photo processing). I’ve described the work done on the details page: translate the website menus (and controls) in Spanish, German and Romanian add more content (Astronomy Tutorial) – this is a work on progress add…