- #DIFFERENT EYEPIECES IN STARRY NIGHT PRO PRO#
- #DIFFERENT EYEPIECES IN STARRY NIGHT PRO SOFTWARE#
- #DIFFERENT EYEPIECES IN STARRY NIGHT PRO PLUS#
- #DIFFERENT EYEPIECES IN STARRY NIGHT PRO WINDOWS#
You can tailor up a special display maybe for summer galaxies that has settings that provide you with the optimal settings for that kind of observing. You can include Constellation boundaries, Alt-az coordinates, RA and DEC lines, and just about anything else you choose. You can change the COLOR of almost anything. You can control virtually any aspect of the way the screens appear. It has scads of features that are VERY appealing to people that use Planetarium programs.Ĭontrols are numerous and useful.
#DIFFERENT EYEPIECES IN STARRY NIGHT PRO PRO#
As Simon would say about a good performance: “It’s very nice actually… I rather enjoyed it.” As it turns out Starry Night Pro is a reasonable Planetarium program.
#DIFFERENT EYEPIECES IN STARRY NIGHT PRO SOFTWARE#
These apparently are two different things.įirst, the review of the Planetarium software that Imaginova Canada sells. Why do I want you to repeat that? I want you to repeat that because I am doing TWO reviews here… The first review is on the software that I purchased, and the second was on software that I WANTED to purchase. This makes it very easy to 1) find the object(s), and 2) match the star field to my finding, making confirmation a much better process.“Planetarium Software”… Repeat that. And like the screen view, the charts' stellar magnitude ranges can be adjusted in each pane to match the view through the scope.
#DIFFERENT EYEPIECES IN STARRY NIGHT PRO PLUS#
Obviously, this is more for smaller objects that I tend to observe most (galaxies, small galaxy groups such as HCG's, and planetary nebulae plus other tiny bits of flotsam in the universe). The final pane has something like a quarter of a degree or less field of view to center on the actual object (matching my higher power eyepieces, depending upon the object). The second pane I set up with a 1 degree field of view, which closely matches my scanning eyepiece for my scope. I set up the first pane as a star hopping frame with about a 35-40 degree field of view. One thing that I use Starry Night Pro for especially is its ability to make 3 pane charts. More importantly, you can adjust the range of magnitude of stars so you can actually simulate the star field fairly accurately with a little tweaking. TheSky and Starry Night Pro 6.x (I haven't tried 7.x yet) do show eyepiece views. But, if you take the time to do your part, SkyTools will take you places you never imagined you could go.
That’s *important* and I’m not trying to sugar-coat that part of it.
Now this SkyTools 3 is a product that definitely demands quite a bit of work and input on the user’s part in order to get up to speed. There is no function that I know of for artificial satellites in SkyTools 3.
#DIFFERENT EYEPIECES IN STARRY NIGHT PRO WINDOWS#
I’ve not tried to use SkyTools on a smartphone (I doubt that it can be) and it’s designed for Windows operating system. I use a laptop in the field (I know kind of old fashioned now but it’s gotten amazing results for me). The Sun and planets and the locations of their moons are displayed just like they appear at the time that you’re your looking at them (rings, transits, Great Red Spot, etc.) If you are confused about double stars and multiple star systems, SkyTools also has that covered down to the smallest detail in the eyepiece views. SkyTools even adjusts the on-screen views for the amount of light pollution at your location (you must estimate that value for each of your observing locations), for the intensity of Moonlight on that particular night, for how high the field that your are seeing is in the sky (the lower in the sky that you are looking, the dimmer objects appear) and even compensates for the observers age and skill level and so on.Ĭurrent information for events like comets, supernovae and asteroids are so easily updated with a just couple of mouse clicks. that you are using and it calculates and presents the detailed views for you automatically. Once that’s done you just tell SkyTools which telescope and eyepiece, etc. During set up you tell SkyTools which telescopes, which eyepieces and which finderscopes and Telrad and which Barlow that you use. In order to get this level of custom detail displayed for you, you must enter your particulars and equipment list into the program when you set it up. (Binocular simulation has only two views: naked eye and bino view.) Each of the three views can be one-click toggled off and on to suit your needs at any time.
The views form three panes on your computer screen:Īnd… the views are all correctly oriented, by the way, right-left, up-down are presented just like you see them. In its telescope simulation mode, SkyTools 3 presents three views of the object you’re seeking. SkyTools 3 does telescope and binocular simulations quite well.
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