It looks like  some people have been blocked from getting Distant Suns(max) from Amazon’s appstore even if they have the Kindle Fire. They’re getting a message that the app is incompatible with their device. I have a support ticket filed with Amazon, so hope to get this fixed up shortly. The classic version seems ok though.

25 years ago, while working at the NASA Ames Research Center, I got the idea to create an astronomy program for computer users. It started out as a 17 line BASIC program and I’ve been polishing it up ever since. Thanks to you, Distant Suns has become one of the longest-lived, continually published, consumer software titles still on the market, bested only by products like Windows, Microsoft Word, and Broderbund’s Print Shop. I want...

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....

Distant Suns(max) aka, Distant Suns 3.4.0 was released today. I have been getting some scattered reports of What’s Up? behaving unkindly for some; I’ll have a fix into Apple tonight, and hope they can expedite their review. Update: The new build is in Apple’s hands now. Update Squared: Apple kindly expedited the review, taking less than a day. Thanks to them. Update Cubed: I am getting some reports that people are being...

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...

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...