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Celebrate "One Small Step" + 40 with free Carina astronomy apps

by Steven Sande Jul 18th 2009 at 8:00AM

On July 20th, 1969, I was an 11 year-old nerd who loved space. Along with billions of other people in the rest of the developed world, I sat in rapt attention in front of the family TV set watching the ghostly figures of Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin taking the first steps on the moon.

Now I'm a nerdy 51 year-old who still loves space. This weekend, my wife and I are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing by presenting an Apollo retrospective at the Lookout Mountain Nature Center near Denver. If you're in the Denver area, drop by at 7 PM on Saturday, July 18th to learn more about the incredible challenges that were surmounted by the U.S. space program to land men on the moon and return them safely to earth.

For the majority of you who aren't in the Denver area, there's another way you can celebrate on Monday, July 20th, 2009. On Monday, Carina Software will offer free download-only versions of their SkyGazer software for Mac OS X on the Carina website. iPhone and iPod touch owners won't be left out of the fun, as Carina's SkyVoyager app will be free on Monday from the App Store.

Be sure to pass along the information to your friends and join in the free fun on Monday!

[via The Mac Observer]

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Nikax

OK, I've got both apps for my iPhone and they appear to be very similar. Which app is better for the beginner?

July 22 2009 at 11:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joel

I was really looking forward to this download. I hope that by the end of the day, the software will be back up for free! Otherwise I'll have to take Buran's advice in his comment above and just download Stellarium.

July 20 2009 at 2:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Buran

Hers, but I hope you like Stellarium. :) I did/do!

July 23 2009 at 5:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kc! Bradshaw

Looks like Carina changed their offer since this morning. The iPhone app remains free, but the desktop software download purchase has been taken offline (as of 9am PDT) due to "unexpectedly high volume, this download has been disabled at the request of our webhosting provider."

July 20 2009 at 12:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Buran

I just cancelled my download -- they're still offering pay downloads, so that excuse seems full of it. If hosting is a problem, host them all from the same source! If I need desktop astronomy software, I'll stay with the already-free Stellarium. No hassles. No BS. Free (as in beer and as in ... whatever the other common cliche is).

July 20 2009 at 1:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wii monster

Just downloaded SkyVoyager and SkyGazer. Thanks TUAW!

July 20 2009 at 11:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Edward Patel

Great! I'm a big fan of the Apollo program. I have been listening to the "live" playback of the radio transmission playing it back 40 years later.
http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/
One can follow the event in their "real" Flight Plan for Apollo 11 http://bit.ly/OOTvi :)

I have also put our iPhone game Eagle to be a free download (waiting for iTunes to update)
http://www.memention.com/lunarlander/

July 20 2009 at 7:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Mezrow

Hey, thanks very much! Looking forward to playing this. All hail Edward!

July 20 2009 at 3:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lee McCartney

Thanks for the heads up, I just downloaded the software and paid my $0.01 for the serial number to fully activate it. The SkyVoyager app from the app store is downloading too :o)

July 20 2009 at 5:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Fidler

Just downloaded it! Thanks to you and Carina Software

July 20 2009 at 3:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
super

Just got it--Thanks!!!

July 19 2009 at 11:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
djaka

@Dr Spaceman: it's india and remember it's 1969, you didn't have the internet even the tv was rare then. so the news would came slowly. the event happened today can be heard tomorrow or weeks later.

July 19 2009 at 7:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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mh

Dr. Spaceman:

Are you aware of the time difference between different regions of the earth? If not, I strongly recommend you look into the matter. I experienced the "giant leap for mankind" at 03:56 am Central European Time July 21st. as Neil Armstrong stepped off the lunar landing module. India was about 4 hours ahead in their time zone. Given some delay in the spread of news I find your comment pretty exposing as regards your own ignorance.

July 20 2009 at 6:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan Schroeder

I'll try to check out the iPhone/iTouch SkyGazer and SkyVoyager soon, and add them to my review of astronomy apps (http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/iPhoneStarApps/).

July 19 2009 at 12:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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