Smart Telescope Planner

Smart Telescope Planner

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • June 4, 2026
  • July 20, 2026
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BigSky Planner helps smart telescope users prepare an observing session before they head outside. Save observing locations, select a smart telescope setup, filter a bundled target database, and build a timed plan for the night. Target cards show planning details including magnitude, object type, first view time, duration in view, azimuth, and altitude. Plan for tonight or a future date. Define one or more Clear Sky viewing openings and filter targets by catalog, object type, magnitude, time, azimuth, and altitude. Checked targets remain available while changing object types, making it easier to build a plan containing nebulae, clusters, galaxies, and other objects. The planner organizes observation windows, helps avoid overlapping target times, and supports saving, reopening, printing, and sharing plans. Quick Ref provides a compact field list with each target's name, first view time, azimuth, and altitude. Key features: - Save and reuse observing locations - Select a smart telescope setup - Plan for tonight or a future observing date - Filter by catalog, object type, magnitude, time, azimuth, and altitude - Define multiple Clear Sky viewing openings - Build mixed object-type plans without losing checked targets - View target duration and telescope-specific capture guidance - Schedule observation windows and handle after-midnight sessions - Save, reopen, print, and share plans - Use a compact Quick Ref report at the telescope - Review illustrated in-app Help - Use adaptive iPhone and iPad layouts with light and dark modes BigSky Planner is a planning companion. It does not control a telescope or replace a telescope manufacturer's app.
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What's New in Smart Telescope Planner

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July 20, 2026

Version 18 build 1 is a major smart-telescope planning update with requested timing and workflow fixes: - Corrects checked-target planner timing so the first target starts at initialization, each next target starts at its first visible time, and the previous target ends there. - Handles after-midnight cascades correctly for observing windows such as 22:34 to 04:47. - Keeps the final target only through the earlier of its visible card end or the capture-window end, leaving unused time open for another target. - Tightens target availability checks so a target is rejected if any minute of the proposed segment falls outside the viewing window. - Keeps checked targets visible while switching object types, making mixed nebula, cluster, galaxy, and other plans easier to build. - Adds planner Fill Gaps suggestions for open windows between scheduled targets. - Adds Quick Ref PDF or text export for fast field use at the telescope. - Pads low-altitude ALT report values to two digits in plan, PDF, print, share, and Quick Ref output. - Adds telescope-specific Home timing, including shared Vaonis smart telescope timing based on the calibrated Vespera II Singularity field window. - Adds optional Weather Underground PWS current observations while Open-Meteo continues to fill unsupported cloud and forecast rows. - Resolves GPS-captured observing locations into address fields when iOS returns a placemark. - Warns before target database downloads begin because the dataset may be large. - Improves Clear Sky filtering across multiple azimuth/altitude zones. - Removes Hestia from smart telescope setup because it is a phone accessory, not a true smart telescope. - Updates About, Help, manuals, website materials, release screenshots, and the iOS logic-flow diagram. Also give the macOS version a look: https://bigskyastro.com/macos/user-manual.html

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