#The stellarium plus#
The database is huge compared to the Plus level, and the extra functions aren't that useful at the eyepiece.
#The stellarium pro#
I wouldn't purchase the Pro version of SkySafari 6 for a phone.
#The stellarium how to#
I still keep Stellarium on the desktop so I don't forget how to use it but SS is my main app these days. Once I got comfortable I started using the other features like the observing lists, double stars, comets. I find that makes star hopping much easier. Like a 9x50 finder, an eyepiece, binoculars. You can have multiple circles up at the same time. You can move along as you star hop and see what's coming to plan your next move. With SS you select the eyepiece telescope combo and it puts up a circle similar to the Telrad view in Stellarium. Once you do that you can't move it and everything outside of the circle is blacked out. Unless things have changed with the plus version, you have the ocular view so you can match the screen to the view through the eyepiece but you have to have an object selected. Your post about the Telrad circles reminded of the main feature that made me switch. Stellarium was like an old friend and I hesitated to make the switch. I think when I started it took a few sessions for me to get comfortable with it. Sky Safari does so much there's a bit of a learning curve. I will be using the plus version going forward for the automatic database updates, comets and the like.Įdited by aeajr, 07 February 2020 - 11:11 AM. Still, Stellarium will continue to be one of my most used tools. I use Stellarium on the desktop almost every day. If SkySafari was available for my desktop I might be more inclined to try it. SkySafari, as I understand it, has more planning tools. Just have not made the effort.Īs I understand it, Stellarium does not really play in the same space. I don't use SkySafari, though I keep meaning to try it out. Still, it is an improvement so the cost difference from the basic to the Plus is small enough that there is no reason not to get the plus if you are a Stellarium user. I am not.įor me, these are a few nice to haves in the Plus version that I found in a few minutes of use. You can have sattelites moving across the FOV if you are a sat hunter. If you buy their StarSense explorer scopes then you drop the phone in the mount and it does plate solving and acts as a very accurate PushTo.
#The stellarium free#
The Celestron StarSense Explorer free app does a nice job on this, as a simplified beginner level star app. That is something you can add to the desktop version.
But there are plenty of moon map apps.Ī button I wish was there is asterisms. But the old version doesn't have that either so it is not a moon map tool as far as I can tell. One thing I miss from the desktop is labels of major features on the moon. But with the Telrad grid I may not pay much attention to that. That is nice.Īs you zoom in and out it gives you the FOV at the bottom but it doesn't stay on so you have to watch for it.
I have better control of hints and names, like on the desktop. It defaults to Western names and pictures which is all I need. Lots of versions of constellations/star lore but I always have the pictures turned off. Then I swipe up and it gives me more and there is a button to go to Wikipedia which gives me their article on whatever I am on.
If I bring up the info screen it gives me basic info.
Plus has a nice info integration with Wikipedia. The old version would put a mark on the target but I would have to move around to find it if I didn't know where it was. I doubt it is precise enough to point a scope but it is a nice feature. If I have the screen in active mode, where it moves as I point the phone, when I search for something a circle comes up, like SkEye, that tells me where to point the phone. That one feature alone may be enough to make this worth it for me. I drop the target under the telrad and zoom in. Anything past Mag 12 for me is not especially useful.Ī few features I like is the ability to have a telrad grid on the screen all the time as my marker point. I am more interested in the user tools than going to Mag 22 on stars. Have only played with it for a few minutes but here are some first impressions of the Plus version over the earlier version I had on my phone.
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