# Starry Night College

> Comprehensive educational astronomy app with planetarium, lessons, and simulations for iPad. (iPhone/iPad app by Simulation Curriculum Corp..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/starry-night-college/id924636349 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Simulation Curriculum Corp.](https://appshunter.io/developer/791341744)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: $29.99
- Rating: 4.14/5 from 14 App Store ratings · 4 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 7.0 · 469 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2014-11-03
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/starry-night-college/id924636349/reviews.md

## What is Starry Night College?

The Starry Night College App for the iPad is the most comprehensive educational astronomy app - period. Use it with your introductory astronomy textbook or on its own.  It's a powerful, portable planetarium that fits in your backpack.  It puts thousands of stars and planets at your fingertips. It lets you find objects in the sky using your iPad’s built-in compass and accelerometer. 

The Starry Night College App includes thousands of astronomical images, and contains encyclopedic descriptions of the constellations, stars and planets.  45 lessons are built in to the application.  Integrated exercises are joined to hundreds of simulations, images and interactions!   The exercises are even mapped to popular astronomy textbooks.  A massive object database and the ability to leave Earth and fly into orbit around any Solar System object or nearby star is a most popular feature. It shows you 2.6 million stars, and 31,000 deep sky objects - including the entire NGC/IC catalog and it includes nearly 18,000 asteroids, comets, and satellites with updateable orbits. 

The Starry Night College App for the iPad is guaranteed to make it easier for astronomy students to visually grasp the concepts of astronomy. You’ll be amazed at what you learn and what a great time you'll have with your course and this program.

Exercise Topics Include:
• Earth, Moon, and Sun
• Diurnal Motion
• Earth’s Revolution Around the Sun
• The Local Coordinate System
• Measuring Angles in the Sky
• The Celestial Sphere
• The Celestial Coordinate System
• Solar and Sidereal Days
• The Year and Seasons
• The Analemma
• The Moon
• Phases of the Moon
• Lunar and Solar Eclipses
• Precession and Nutation
• The Solar System
• Geocentric to the Heliocentric Model
• Planetary Orbits and Configurations
• Johannes Kepler and Elliptical Orbits
• Galileo Strengthens and the Heliocentric Model
• Modern Overview of Our Solar System
• Organization, Size and Scale of the Solar System
• Romer’s Light Experiment
• The Inner Planets of the Solar System
• The Outer Planets of the Solar System

## Key features

- Portable planetarium
- Thousands of stars and planets
- Object identification via compass/accelerometer
- Encyclopedic descriptions
- 45 built-in lessons
- Interactive simulations and exercises
- Massive object database

## Recent user reviews (4 of 4)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/starry-night-college/id924636349/reviews.md

### 3/5 — Exercises - Answers MIA?

*2019-01-15, version 1.2*

Where are the answers to the exercises? If they are in the app I can’t find them.

### 5/5 — 5 Stars with one Caveat

*2016-10-01, version 1.2*

Please, in your next version, can you include a control which will allow the user to dampen down the mobile device's accelerometer's sensitivity. Panning and then stopping is just way too jumpy, bouncy and jittery. Try to make it like the app "Star Chart".

### 5/5 — Exactly what I was looking for

*2016-05-12, version 1.2*

UPDATE: I finished this wonderful course. Where do I sign up for the sophomore, junior and senior courses?  I loved every minute. Thanks to all who created this app.  (Original post:) I didn't have the opportunity to study astronomy in high school or college, and I've always loved planetariums, but we rarely get the chance to go to one. I've always wanted to know more about the night sky, and to have a better understanding of all those wonderful things up there. I'm doing one or more exercises every evening and learning a great deal. I'm repeating some of the exercises if I don't understand them completely.  The animations are wonderful.  The software is very thorough, so much so that I suspect there are features I'll never use. I'm getting a great deal of enjoyment out of this.  My husband thinks this is hilarious, because we are in our 70s.  Every night when he turns on the television, I say, "I'm going to learn more astronomy."  It's much easier to learn with the visuals and animations, at least for me, then it would be by reading a book; however, I intend to get an astronomy textbook from the library when I'm done with the exercises, and use this app  to learn even more.

### 5/5 — Starry Night

*2015-06-22, version 1.2*

I love it!!  I had to purchase it for my astronomy course.  It is very easy to use.  It changes as the Earth moves through space so it is always accurate according to what you are observing.  My astronomy course is long over, but I still return to this program to identify what I am seeing in the night sky.  If you want to be in awe of the universe, look up, then pull this app out and identify all you are seeing.

## Frequently asked questions about Starry Night College

### What is Starry Night College?

Starry Night College is an educational astronomy app for iPad that serves as a portable planetarium. It provides detailed information on celestial bodies, interactive lessons, and simulations to help users grasp astronomical concepts.

### What kind of content does Starry Night College offer?

It includes thousands of astronomical images, encyclopedic descriptions of constellations, stars, and planets, 45 built-in lessons, and hundreds of interactive exercises and simulations.

### Can Starry Night College help me identify objects in the sky?

Yes, it uses your iPad's built-in compass and accelerometer to help you find and identify objects in the sky.

### What is the price of Starry Night College?

Starry Night College is a paid app priced at $29.99.

### What devices is Starry Night College compatible with?

Starry Night College is currently supported on iPads.

### How often is Starry Night College updated?

The latest version is 1.2, and it was last updated on February 18, 2015. The app was initially released on November 3, 2014.

### Does Starry Night College have ads?

Based on the provided data, there is no information indicating that Starry Night College contains advertisements.

### What is the age rating for Starry Night College?

Starry Night College has an age rating of 4+.

## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.2 — 2015-02-18

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Some lesson text has been edited for clarity.
- General stability improvements.

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