Sky Safari version 6 is also a very good scope control program and it does have some planning capabilities. It also offers scope control, again via ASCOM. Sky Tools 4 for Visual is not cheap, but if you do consider it, get the Real Time observing package as well.Īstroplanner is functionally very similar to Sky Tools and is much cheaper. It can also run your scope as well, but it has to be via ASCOM with a USB/serial cable connected to your hand controller. it offers the most flexibility in planning observing session and has a very robust and well developed set of tools to plan. On my windows machine, the very best planning program, in my opinion, is I have a Windows desktop but a Macbook laptop. The NSOL software is old.Īstroplanner works on either Windows or Mac OS. Yes, your hand controller will have all these things programmed into it already. On the Nexstar observer list, I'm not sure if you know but my understanding is the "Nexstar hand control" that came with my telescope would already have that library of objects so I'm not clear on the intended benefit of also downloading it on my computer. I am very interested in apps that can provide information on what to observe and when so I'll check out astroplanner (I will note I do not have a mac). I've found the Nexstar system to be accurate in GOTOs, when well aligned, and easy to use when compared to the SynScan/Intelliscope systems. It's a decent GOTO scope, I've still got an old mount lying around and it works every time I fire it up. This website is a tremendous resources for your SLT scope. Check it out here, this is everything you need to know about NSOL: Nextar Observers List is a very old program, last updated in 2004. However, it is not free, but the PLus version of Sky Safari is very good and is not unreasonably priced, and often goes on sale. It also easily connects to the Celestron Skyportal dongle and will elt you run your scope from a phone, tablet or a Mac PC. Since you can connect with CPWI, I'd stick with that, or consider Sky Safari. Astroplanner is also very good and runs well on Mac systems. ![]() I've relied on Sky Safari for years as well as Sky Tools for scope control and as planners for observing. PErsonally I have never warmed up to the Starry Night software, it just has never been something I've found useful or easy to use. CPWI is very good, but not at all intuitive to me. For example, you could start a simulation, then use the Internet to look up the answer to a question a student might have posed.Starry Night is an older program, it's been around for years, CPWI is a brand new collaboration between Celestron and Plane Wave Instruments to create an advanced telescope control and modeling program for GOTO scope control. Split menus, allowing the program to run on the projector while the computer is used for other things. ![]() Can use the Internet to interface with Live Sky, Google Earth, and automatically update positions of bodies.Software will “speak” the names of hard to pronounce bodies.“Find” command to locate any celestial object.Customizable high-resolution 360-degree panoramas.Automatic navigation to any selected planet, moon, comet, asteroid or satellite.Constellation overlays, equatorial, galactic and ecliptic grids.Accurate annual motion of planets, sun and moons over a +/- 100,000 year span.Display of planets and all known solar system moons as quality textured, accurately placed 3D objects.Comprehensive database of known satellites, comets, asteroids, meteor showers, and extra-solar planets.Thousands of famous deep space objects with detailed descriptions from Messier and Caldwell catalogs, Herschel catalog of 400 deep sky objects, and corrected NGC/IC catalogs with over 13,000 deep sky objects. ![]()
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