![]() Let us know what didn't work for you (be specific) and we'll be happy to help the best we can. An original grant from us early on made possible the ASCOM platform package for example. Our focus is still on amateur astronomers and astronomy education. Starry Night became Simulation Curriculum - some of us have been working here for 20 years - I'm still in Toronto. TheSky will be my primary planetarium software in my observatory as it has been since the mid-90s.Įdited by Ron359, 18 February 2019 - 01:50 PM. of using and really liking the original SNP 6 and trials of Sky Safari, I'm done with the SC suite of 'beta stuff'. It was intended to be something inexpensive and pretty to hold your iPhone or ipad up to the sky and identify what constellations or planets etc., you were looking at by pointing the phone. It should be noted that Sky Safari was primarily an Apple iOS (phone and iPod) app, which was very cheap compared to SNP or TheSky at the time, so not nearly as full featured as SNP 6 was. I guess it is to be expected of an education software based company, that the products are really marketed to and geared to school kid level astronomy and the usefulness for an advanced amateur of the original company is long forgotten or very low priority. So I just got a refund for my upgrade as I don't want to pay over $80 bucks to be a 'beta' tester for them. I found a couple major features for using it as an amateur are not working 'yet' in SNP8. It is 'prettier' graphics wise but now has all sorts of IMO - 'bloated baggage' - for those who just want simple internet based astronomy for kids. Since SNP 6 no longer works, I just tried the upgrade to SNP 8 for a couple weeks and found its still 'beta'. I never tried SNP7 cause of all the buggy reports about it. It may have improved, but I gave up on it at v. SS was a more 'basic' planetarium program that didn't seem to handle asteroids and comets, especially new discoveries well, which are one of my main observing interests. I tried Sky Safari from day one and a couple versions since and its pretty eye candy, but didn't work with my mount drive system as it was advertised to, and that has never been fixed. There was (is?) a lot of overlap between Sky Safari and SNP7 which was very 'buggy' when it came out. Now it is not supported by SC and some major features won't work on later Mac OS. I used the last version from the original company for 10 yrs., (SNP 6) and worked well, although telescope connection was very limited. Starry Night used to be a full featured planetarium program for both mac and win, aimed at amateur astronomers and educators. Simulation Curriculum bought the Sky Safari company several years ago -and years before that they bought Starry Night, which was originally a Canadian company. Who would the end user be for Starry Night Pro?Įdited by hobbes, 18 February 2019 - 12:42 PM. The cost for Starry Night Pro is about 400% more, and am wondering what additional options/features does it come with, that SkySafari does not? ![]() What are the main differences between SkySafari Pro 6 and Starry Night Pro 8? I've noticed that Starry Night Pro 8 was released, and the website is identical to the layout of SkySafari's web site. I was also a fan of the price point for the Pro version, since it seemed very reasonable for a planetarium software of this quality.įor many years, I've always took a peak at Starry Night Pro's software on its web site, and never bothered since support was dropped for a lengthy period of time. When I have friends and family with me, I enjoy showing them the Info grid on what we're looking at, so they (we) can understand exactly what we are looking at. I use it for slewing, and for observational data. I've added the PGC and GAIA extension during the sale, and have been very happy with the product. So the Starry Sky AF on the E-M1MarkIII will be much more advanced I think.I use to be a Stellarium user for a number of years, and made the switch to SkySafari Pro 6 last year when they have their 50% off sale. įor me it looks okay if you think that this shot was taken with ISO 12800 and 1/10 sec handheld. The main reason for doing this shot is testing if the AF is really able to focus on the star when you put an target on it. The interesting thing for me is, that Olympus invented the principles and basics for the "new" Starry Night AF already in the E-M1 (Mark 1) The result you can see here, just taken from my place in Cape Town, with all the air pollution etc what you can expect from a night sky shot in the city. with AF focusing sharp on a star when you put the target onto it. What it does on the E-M1: it takes a sequence of I think 8 shots with what ever ISO it needs to do a starry night shot hand held. īut as I did play around some "scene " modes of the E-M1 lately I noticed something called "starry sky" as well. The relatively new E-M1MkIII does provide the "starry night AF".
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