Distant Suns: The new way to look at the sky

You can spend less and get less. Meets my expectations.

Revising my review because, in addition to everything below, with iOS 8, the app does not work very well (i.e. worse than mentioned already, like now compass mode (live tracking) only starts after you randomly go in and out of menus without changing anything, etc). I’m talking about storage space on my device; this app uses 0.4 GB of space after installing (and that is without adding any of the extra star/etc info), yet competing apps that have all the same data and similar options and display are about one tenth the size. I can’t understand what takes this insane amount of space (other than poor programming/implementation). In general, I like the app. The screen is rather ‘busy’, and has a steeper learning curve than most, but I prefer the sky display on it to some of the other apps (e.g. things like brightness of planets display more accurately than on other apps). Tons of option settings (though other apps are pretty similar), but bugs there where after rotating device a few times, the settings lowest on the screen can no longer be changed. Lots of other annoying bugs too, like the option switch bug, the info crosshair showing up in the wrong place, things like the compass directions sometimes showing and sometimes not (i.e. not obeying the ‘clear’ setting), and some of the options not working in both ‘clear’ and non-clear mode, etc.