We are pleased to announce that Distant Suns has partnered with the SETI Institute in Sunnyvale, California to highlight in real-time SETI candidate star systems that are being monitored. SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) primarily uses the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) located near Mt. Lassen in Northern California to conduct its studies. The ATA, financed in part by Microsoft Cofounder,Paul Allen, us made up of over 40 dishes....

If you have a smartphone, Samsung Galaxy SIII, the HTC  Desire, etc. and have purchased Distant Suns from the Amazon app store note, that it has only been tested and certified on the Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble NOOK. The reason being that it was a lot cheaper to target just two devices, then hundreds. When submitted to the Kindle appstore, I was allowed specify that it was only for tablets. Apparently the store ignores that. So if...

In what surely must be ranked as one of Apple’s most closely held secrets to date, word has leaked out that the rumored September 12 event has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone 5, but instead will witness the introduction of the Cupertino company’s latest foray into a previously untapped market…

For those looking for my Grand Tour for MS-Windows, it is no longer available. However, if you have any iOS devices checkout  Distant Suns 3 for the iPad and iPhone, which has much of the original Grand Tour code.

Now it can be told. We here at Distant Suns World Headquarters for Intergalactic Mischief can now proudly announce the release of Distant Suns for both the Barnes & Noble NOOK Color and the NOOK Tablet, as well as Amazon’s Kindle Fire. It has many of the  fine features of Distant Suns for iOS, such as: Displays the evening’s sky with over 130,000 stars Change the date and time to show the sky of the past or future, like having a...

Well, the big knife-switch on the wall was thrown a couple of days ago, with a maniacal laugh shouting “it’s ALIVE!” (bwah bwah, bwah….). And so far it seems to be holding together. Tune in for various contests, announcements and a few “gosh, this is really cool!” postings in the forthcoming months. Per aspera ad astra.