At the Royal Society Summer Exhibition there was a stall from the Universty of Manchester about Graphene which is basically one molecular layer of Graphine. They have an app which consists of three really addictive games! One is quite like tetrus, another is a balance game and the third is a bit rubbish but maybe I just think that because I'm not very good at it?!
The second app I will talk about is called Sun Viewer from NASA space weather which also has a website that I mentioned previously. It really has everything you could want from a Sun veiwing app such as explanation videos process simulations and of course up to date images of the Sun from various different cameras.
Another one I downloaded for free (I never pay for apps!) is called Moon and I can't quite remember what I expected form this but I definitely got every kind of information you could imagine! Here is an image from today. I'm not exactly sure when it will be useful to know that today the moon is in a Waxing Gibbous phase but when it is I will be ready!
The final app I will tell you about is one called SkyVeiw and it looks extremely cool but I haven't had a chance to use it yet. It uses the camera so that I point my Ipod at the sky and the app calibrates itself and then tells me what I can see. I hope this works because I am excited by how clever it would be! Also as someone with absolutely no stargazing skill whatsoever, it would be a great starting place. I just hope it isn't too cloudy/too much pollution tonight!
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