MoonToStars vs PALE space

Documenting the Universe. Your Personal Astronomical Journal. Turn your backyard stargazing into a lifelong legacy of discovery. Whether you’re hunting for the faintest galaxies in the New General Catalogue or sketching and photographing the rugged craters of the lunar terminator from your telescope. MoonToStars is the ultimate companion for the amateur observer. MoonToStars saves you time and ensures accuracy in your observation entry with data from searchable catalogs to start your observation session. Key Features: - A Master Catalog of the Night Sky: Explore a database of stars and a deep sky catalog (down to magnitude 13). From the famous Messier list to the "hidden gems" like the Hyades and Coma Star Clusters, every target is at your fingertips. - The Lunar Gazetteer: Navigate the Moon with a comprehensive database of craters, maria, and mountain ranges. Search by name or type to plan your next high-power lunar session. - Digital Observer’s Log: Move beyond paper. Record your sessions with specialized entries for Stars, Deep Sky Objects, and the Moon. - Connect your iPad to your iPhone mounted on your telescope: Capture the view exactly as you saw it. Use the integrated sketching canvas for eyepiece drawings and attach your astrophotographs directly to your observation logs. - Precision Data: Coordinates (RA/Dec), magnitude scales, and constellation genitives ensure your records are scientifically accurate and professionally formatted. - Share or print you logs as you want - Night Mode: features a refined, dark-adapted interface to preserve your night vision while you work at the telescope. Subscriptions Start Your Observing Journal for $0.99 per month or $9.99 per year Information about the auto-renewable nature of the subscription: - Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. License terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Some problems only look large from where you are standing. Open PALE. In sixty seconds it takes you from the pale blue dot you are standing on, through the solar system, across the Milky Way, to the edge of everything we can see. Then it brings you back. You were always here. YOUR STAR There is a real star whose light left the year you were born and is arriving at Earth right now. PALE finds it. Tells you everything about it. Shows you how to find it in tonight's sky. THE SHIFT A 60-second perspective journey from Earth to the observable universe. Watch the scale expand. Feel the silence. Return smaller — in the best possible way. TONIGHT'S SKY What's above you right now. Your location. The real sky. One object. One truth about it. An invitation to go outside and look up. YOUR PLACE How far you've travelled through space since you were born. How many heartbeats. Which cosmic milestones happened in your lifetime. JOURNAL A private space for your thoughts. Every entry records the moon phase and the age of the universe at the exact moment you write. The universe has been here for 13.8 billion years. It will be here when you need it.