Doesn’t work
This app does not work with current iPads to control their own Paramount mounts. Developer have not bothered to update in over three years. Very disappointing.
Disappointed
I have used SB PC based products for years and enjoyed then for planetarium, Telescope control, deep sky imaging. The mobile version is a disappointment. Very cluttered and scattered GUI. No ability to have RA/dec labels on the map. No telrad. Unhelpful help manual. Must join and become a member of the blog to search for information.
I switched to SkySafari Pro and I am much more satisfied with that product
I switched to SkySafari Pro and I am much more satisfied with that product
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Great products from bisque
This is a great app almost as good as the sky pro.
Does everything I want and more.
I use this all the time with and without my paramount.
Thanks Richard for making this
Does everything I want and more.
I use this all the time with and without my paramount.
Thanks Richard for making this
The one astronomers use
It's awesome to see TheSky on iOS! All the tools for doing actual astronomy are there for taking. A real scientific application.
Not a good mobile application
I have been using TheSky X on a macbook pro for a few years, and more recently SkySafari 3 Pro on an ipad 2 for the past couple of years. TheSky is an excellent macintosh app, but it doesn't work as a mobile application.
The fact that this app is only available as for ipad, not iphone, is a big hint that Software Bisque haven't figured out how to present images and information on a small screen. The text and icons are all too big and opaque, so they obscure the stars. The process of selecting an object to get more information is cumbersome and counterintuitive (in ios you tap on things to select them!), and once an object is selected it's completely hidden behind TheSky's big red bullseye.
The app as currently configured lacks many functions available in competing planetarium apps. You can't orbit Jupiter to see where the moons are in their orbits. You can't control your go-to telescope from the app. The sky looks like a printed atlas, not a realistic starscape.
TheSky's great strength is the information it presents about the stars, including spectral type, proper motion, etc. You can even get a plot of each star on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. If you're a serious student of astronomy, I would suggest purchasing this app as a secondary reference to have at hand at the telescope, but I can't recommend it as a primary planetarium app.
The fact that this app is only available as for ipad, not iphone, is a big hint that Software Bisque haven't figured out how to present images and information on a small screen. The text and icons are all too big and opaque, so they obscure the stars. The process of selecting an object to get more information is cumbersome and counterintuitive (in ios you tap on things to select them!), and once an object is selected it's completely hidden behind TheSky's big red bullseye.
The app as currently configured lacks many functions available in competing planetarium apps. You can't orbit Jupiter to see where the moons are in their orbits. You can't control your go-to telescope from the app. The sky looks like a printed atlas, not a realistic starscape.
TheSky's great strength is the information it presents about the stars, including spectral type, proper motion, etc. You can even get a plot of each star on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. If you're a serious student of astronomy, I would suggest purchasing this app as a secondary reference to have at hand at the telescope, but I can't recommend it as a primary planetarium app.
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