Just a quickie look at how Distant Suns handled June 5’s transit. I need an otherwise lame post like this to get something to show in the slide show. meh.

For those who have just received or are expecting their little bundles of iPad 3 joy, Distant Suns 3 works very well on it except for one toolbar button that is the wrong size, and some text on the Whats Up? that needs a little bit of tweaking. Those fixes should be sent to Apple in the next couple of days. Other than those, it looks really great, hard now to even go back and look at the ‘2.

A few folks have reported problems with the new event feature. Turns out, if there are no events in your area it goes bye-bye. Should be fixed and uploaded tomorrow, but will take another few days to get approved by Apple.

I am pleased to announce that Distant Suns 3.3 has just been pushed to the Appstore. This has many UI enhancements, lens flare and integration with the Night Sky Network. The NSN is a service co-sponsored with NASA and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to bring you a monthly calendar of space and astronomy related events in your area (US only for the preset though). Enjoy the new release, and please leave a review if you have time. And...

We’ve extended our sale through Midnight, Tuesday, November 29. Distant Suns 2 for $.99, and Distant Suns 3 for only $3.99. Happy Holidays!

Distant Suns 2 on sale through Saturday, Nov.26 for $.99, and Distant Suns 3 for only $3.99.