{"id":2874,"date":"2007-10-02T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/star-gazing-from-your-mobile\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:44:29","slug":"star-gazing-from-your-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/star-gazing-from-your-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Star gazing from your mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Big Dipper - easy to spot!\" alt=\"Big Dipper - easy to spot!\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/10\/bigdipper.png\" \/>I&#8217;ve got pretty bored of sleep recently, it seems such a waste of a perfectly good nine hours. So I&#8217;ve been looking for some things to do. Walking the streets has certainly introduced me to some interesting &#8216;characters&#8217; and listening to music just brings the neighbours round. In their pyjamas! It was as I was shouting out of the window to one of them that I saw the most amazing constellation in the sky. &#8216;Stars&#8217;, it seemed to be saying. It was difficult to read. Which is why I decided to become an astronomical expert. And here&#8217;s how I did it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skychart.en.softonic.com\/palm\">Skychart<\/a> (Palm) &#8211; Space as it is above your head<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/astro-info.en.softonic.com\/palm\">Astro Info<\/a> (Palm) &#8211; Planet viewing to the second<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pocket-stars.en.softonic.com\/pocket\">Pocket Stars<\/a> (Pocket PC, Win Mobile) &#8211; Highly accurate star-finder and navigator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vito-astronavigator-ii.en.softonic.com\/windowsmobile\">VITO AstroNavigator II<\/a> (Pocket PC, Win Mobile) &#8211; GPS displays the stars you should see<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/taiyoukei.en.softonic.com\/pocket\">Taiyoukei<\/a> (Pocket PC) &#8211; Incredible planetary images including moon phases<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/starpop.en.softonic.com\/pocket\">StarPop<\/a> (Palm and Pocket PC) &#8211; And a little game for you when it gets too cloudy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got pretty bored of sleep recently, it seems such a waste of a perfectly good nine hours. So I&#8217;ve been looking for some things to do. Walking the streets has certainly introduced me to some interesting &#8216;characters&#8217; and listening to music just brings the neighbours round. In their pyjamas! It was as I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/star-gazing-from-your-mobile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star gazing from your mobile&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336993,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/336993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}