What a really cool app for the iPhone! and it's FREE! When you search for it there will be several "SkyView's." The one Granpa downloaded is: SkyView - Explore the... by Terminal Eleven LLC Education. It has a black and white icon with a picture of the SpaceShuttle flying between the Earth and it's moon.
When you point your phone toward the sky, your phone's GPS will kick in and a constellation will appear. Point the phone to a different part of the sky, and the stars and constellations will move and new ones show up!
Granpa showed it to me in bed last night. We laid there in the warm snuggly bed identifying stars and constellations. He says one of our sons showed it to him months ago, but he just now got around to downloading it. I think Granpa has 1,947 apps downloaded to his iPhone now. You know, the phone he said he didn't want...
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