Star Walk, an Apple Design Award winner for 2010, is without a doubt, one app every iPad owner must have.

Star Walk allows one to have a planetarium on the iPad, making makes discovering more than 9,000 stars, planets, constellations, messiers stunningly beautiful and incredibly easy.  

Star Walk for iPad also features:

• Time Machine: tap the clock icon and scroll the time slider to watch the sky tonight or lets say two years from now.
• Sky LiveWindow: open up the new window by tapping the moon-shaped button to see moon phases, elevation, and rising data for the Sun, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn.
• Picture of the Day
• Bookmarks: save a reminder of beautiful night sky observations, bookmark it on your iPad and view it at any time.
• View from the Earth: Automatic and manual selection of locations on a 3D globe.
• Wikipedia Links: select one celestial body and tap the – i – icon to activate the magnifier and read main information about it.
• Search Celestial Objects: you can also search for stars, planets, and messier objects by their names and see where they are on the sky tonight and when they are going to be visible in your region.

With so many grand features available to one in Star Walk, the company behind both Star Walk and Solar Walk, Vito Technology, is celebrating July 2010 as the “Star Walk Month of Astronomy.”

The “Star Walk Month Astronomy” is about enjoying the wonderful world of astronomy with family/friends, and sharing those experiences with others on Facebook, Twitter, a personal blog, or other social media sources.  In the process, you can win great prizes, from Vito Technology  as outlined on their blog, including; iPod Touch 8GB; $20, $15, $10 iTunes cards; 10 Star Walk and Solar Walk T-shirts, 10 FREE Promo codes for our astronomy apps.

The giving doesn’t stop there,  though.  For our readers, Vito Technology has been gracious enough to provide 5 promo codes for the amazing Star Walk iPad app!  How do you win?  Simply retweet our post regarding this story, Twitter account @TheiPadFan, AND leave a comment below with a link to the retweet.  We will randomly select 5 commenters to receive one of the codes for Star Walk!  So, get to retweeting and commenting, the contest ends Sunday, July 25 at 11:59 pm, with the winners announced Monday on Facebook, and enjoy the “Star Walk Month of Astronomy!”

A special thanks to Vito Technology for the opportunity to provide our readers with the chance to receive Star Walk!