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  • On an older iPad

    I can’t use a mouse or control- key with my older iPad. It’d be nice if their functionality could be simulated. It’s fun to create Addons for the program.
  • Thank you

    From all of us trying to find a spot for humanity before the big rip or the chill. Ty. Highly educational tool to inspire future generations to think past “now” and focus on the preservation of mankind by expanding our probabilities of survival through scientific data and exploration.
    Once we conquered colonization we can deal with the rip or the chill. Whatever may come.
    Either that or extinction.
    By stimulating the minds of our youth we can achieve longevity of our race.
    If we only had an opportunity to show this program to the masses of young people through the educational system we could have a future pocket of dreamers. I would recommend pc atm. However, you’ve done well.
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  • A work in progress

    I was an avid user of Celestia on the computer when I was a kid. I’d come home and explore the Galaxy for what seemed like hours. When I heard they were continuing development, including making a mobile app, I was beyond excited. I downloaded it, played around with it on the phone, and enjoyed myself. It was a great throwback, but there is just something different about it, since it is adapted for a smaller touch screen device. First, it has the same old feel, but it seems less than the computer version. I know as a kid I installed massive amounts of add-ons to make it even more enjoyable, but I found the vanilla version on my phone to be bland. The quality seems to not be scaled down for the phone’s ppi ratio. All of these things I noticed are probably going to be fixed, along with hopefully some updated textures, such as Pluto’s newly revealed surface. Thank you for a life long dream of mine, keep improving, I am genuinely impressed so far. The program that once took a large computer to run only needs a phone’s computer chip now.
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  • Crashed in 3 minutes

    I watched the demo, which was alright but nothing spectacular, shows the earth from orbit, sun with sun spots, Saturn and one of its moons, no sound, looks like a simple computer program. As soon as I tried to play around with the zoom after the demo it crashed. I wasn’t impressed enough to mess with it. Deleted.
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