What is the best stargazing app?
I use Star Walk. There are 2 editions Star Walk and Star Walk 2. Both of the apps have interactive night sky map that follow the movements of the phone and show the names of celestial bodies above you. The apps determine your location and due to compass identify where you point your phone at. You can easily find out the name of the star or planet that stands out in the night sky tonightStar Walk - is the mature version but it is still updated and has lots of cool features like calendar of astronomical events, renewable astronomy pictures, nice notifications of coming events and really great widget. It is also available for Android devices.Star Walk 2 - is a newer version. It looks smoother and nicer. It has got great 3D models of constellations. It also has got built-in notifications of astronomical events, models of planets, satellites. It also has the Android version.
Best astronomy books?
Preferably with a lot of pictures Books for people who don't know anything about space I'd like to know everything about it! I'm too young to take a professional class on it.
Would Nostradamus have used a telescope to stargaze?
Yeah, thanks History Channel, for plenty of junk. Chaz is correct about the invention of the telescope. Well after Nostradamus died. If he looked at the sky, everything he saw was naked eye observation. At that time astronomy and astrology was not separated into a true science and a form of divination. That happened after Galileo turned his telescope at Jupiter. He found four moons orbiting the planet and not Earth. The rest as they say is history. A good book to read is "The Mask of Nostradamus"