Smart Telescope Planner vs Skyla

BigSky Planner helps smart telescope users prepare an observing night before they head outside. Save your observing sites, set up your smart telescope, filter a bundled target catalog, and build a timed plan for the night. Target cards show magnitude, object type, first view time, time in view, azimuth and altitude. Details adds capture guidance for your default telescope, with Min, Opt and Best integration times and filter-aware notes. Key features - Save and reuse observing sites, and mark a default - Smart telescope profiles with altitude, timing and Equatorial Mode limits for each model - Filter targets by catalog, magnitude, object type, altitude and azimuth, with exact catalog-number search - Planets, the Moon and comets - One target card per object, with its common name - Build Plan places every selected target across its Clear Sky, so the times overlap. Balance Plan and Use Priority set the time shares - An alert when a capture is shorter than 30 minutes, with a longer seat or a replacement to choose from - Weather from NOAA in the United States and MET Norway elsewhere, with no account or key. Open-Meteo works with your own key. - Save, reopen, print and share plans - Back up on iPhone or iPad and restore on a Mac or Windows PC, or the other way around - Text follows your iPhone or iPad text size - Light and dark appearance, an illustrated Help guide and a full PDF manual Free download with a 20-day free trial BigSky Planner is free to download and includes a free 20-day trial. After the trial, Full Access is a one-time in-app purchase: no subscription and no automatic charge. Your saved sites and plans are kept. If you bought the app before it became free, you keep Full Access with no additional purchase. Purchase questions: support@bigskyastro.com. Your data stays on your device. No account is required.

Ever looked up and wondered what you're seeing? Hold Skyla up to the sky and the real stars, planets, constellations and satellites above you come to life — placed exactly for where you are, right now. FREE TO START • Point your phone at the sky and it lines up with the real view (AR) • Tap anything to instantly learn what it is and how to find it • See Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, the Moon's craters and the Milky Way • A night-vision mode and a steady compass, right out of the box UNLOCK SKYLA PRO — ONE TIME, NO SUBSCRIPTION Buy Skyla Pro once and keep it forever. No subscriptions. No ads. No account. PLAN THE PERFECT NIGHT • Tonight's Targets — a ranked checklist of the best things to see right now; tap to fly straight to each one • Darkness Tonight — sunset, the twilights and the exact hours of true, Moon-free darkness • Sky Conditions — a live darkness score tells you at a glance if tonight is worth it • Satellite Passes — every visible ISS, Tiangong and Hubble flyover this week, with reminders • Planets Tonight, Comets, an interactive Moon Calendar and an agenda of upcoming meteor showers, conjunctions and Moon phases • Travel through time to see the sky on any night, past or future, and search for any object MAKE IT YOURS • Keep a personal observing log — rate what you see, add notes and track your Messier progress • Save favourites, set your sky's darkness (Bortle) for tailored advice, and get a gentle nightly reminder • A pocket Sky Guide with dozens of short reads, home-screen widgets and an Apple Watch app From total beginners to seasoned skywatchers, Skyla makes the night sky make sense.