Galaxy Map vs Under the sun

The galaxy map is an interactive map of the Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda and their satellite galaxies. Explore the Orion Arm's nebulae and supernovae from the comfort of your spaceship. Fly through the atmosphere of Mars and many other planets and you can even land on them. Discover the galaxy in a stunning three dimensional map based on NASA's artistic impression of the Milky Way galactic structure. Photos are taken by NASA spacecraft and ground based telescopes like Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray, Herschel Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. This interactive 3D map is excellent for teachers to use for instruction, and it is a great astronomy resource for students to explore the Milky Way galaxy and space as they learn more about the universe we live in. Available in over 100 languages! You can also From the outskirts of the galaxy, in the Norma-Outer spiral arm to the galactic center's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, discover a galaxy full of amazing facts. Notable structures included: the Pillars of Creation, Helix Nebula, the Engraved Hourglass Nebula, the Pleiades, the Orion Arm (where the solar system and the Earth are located) with its Orion belt. Check out neighboring dwarf galaxies such as Sagittarius and the Canis Major Overdensity, stellar streams as well as internal galactic components such as a variety of nebulae, star clusters or supernovae. Explore space and get a little closer to our wonderful universe with this awesome astronomy app! The Galaxy Map requires internet access to retrieve information from the wiki.

• Worldmap showing day and night with sun and moon position and moon fases; scrollable and scalable to a preferred spot. • Optionally show various degrees of twilight and moonlight. • Optionally show typical summer/winter ice and snow cover, or download realtime • Put a marks at your favourite places, especially your own location. • Run in realtime or at a chosen speed from a chosen past or future date. • Optionally showing timezones, automatically adjusting for summertime (if any) and including historical changes. • Make skyviews of local sun and moon positions, plus stars and planets. • Make tidal calendars for any sea location. • Showing solar and lunar eclipses when they occur. • DEMO version, maps gets hazy after a minute. • Buy the full version for eternal sharpness or get a 5 days free trial first. • Designed to show optionally on a (big) external screen. Legend to the pictures: 1 the famous solar eclipse over Hawai`i in 1991, most people were clouded out; 2 lunar eclipse over America, showing timezones; 3 in the 1840's Manila was far in advance of GMT; 4 Sitka is still Russian in the morning; 5 same day (Gregorian) yet a day later it is America, also showing a multitude of timezones at that epoche; 6 skyview; 7 tides (bluish:low, yellowish:high) and tidesview