ideralis is a small and free midlet application which displays a map of the stars on your mobile phone. In other words a sky chart for mobile phones.
This is an equivalent to Stellarium or KStar but on your mobile phone.
Your mobile should support MIDP2.0 and CLDC1.1, be up to date and have enough internal memory. Please have a look at the following page to know what your mobile supports: J2ME Devices.
Features:
*A lot of different objects:
o More than 800 stars.
o 5 planets: Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.
o Sun and Moon.
*3 different views :
o Horizontal view.
o Zenith view.
o Night view
*Information on all objects:
o Name.
o Magnitude
o Distance
o Azimuth
o Height
*Current time or any time can be chosen.
*Selection of location by either entering latitude and longitude, by selecting a city among more than 80 cities or by selection on a globe.
*Small dictionary available giving some interesting information about universe and constellations
Change Log :
- Almost fully rewritten code to improve performance and stability, and prepare for future functionalities
- Added stars, constellations and names of stars
- Support for touch screen (to be tested)
- Added Pluton and Neptune
- Improved precision for Saturn and Jupiter
- Added effect of atmosphere in calculation
- Only for mobile supporting 3D API: added basic 3D view of solar system (without earth for now). Press # to see it, then 1 and 3 to zoom out zoom it. Other keys to go back to main view. No support for touch screen in this view yet!
- Not yet all previous functionalities are implemented. This is really a alpha version
