Smart Telescope Planner
Richard Derry · Utilities
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Now free to download - Start with a free 20-day trial, then unlock Full Access with a one-time in-app purchase. - If you bought BigSky Planner before it became free, you keep Full Access with no additional purchase. Access checks this automatically, and Restore Purchases checks again. - Bought the app before it became free and having trouble with access? Contact support@bigskyastro.com. New - Telescope limits by model: altitude, timing and Equatorial Mode limits for each smart telescope. - Every target card shows how long the target is in view tonight. - Build Plan schedules targets through your Clear Sky areas, and unused time inside a Clear Sky span goes back to the targets beside it. - A capture shorter than 30 minutes shows "A Capture Needs a Change", with a longer seat or a replacement that you can accept or decline. - An object listed under several catalog numbers appears as one target card with its common name. - Weather defaults to Automatic: NOAA in the United States and MET Norway elsewhere, with no account or key. Open-Meteo works with your own key. - Back up on iPhone or iPad and restore on a Mac or Windows PC, or the other way around. - More accurate planet and Moon positions. - A Credits page in Set Up. - Text follows your iPhone or iPad text size, and short labels stay whole at the largest sizes. - The illustrated user manual has a new Troubleshooting section. Fixes - A New Moon no longer draws as a solid white disc on the Weather tab. - Apply Filters works before you set a magnitude; the magnitude limit now starts at 17. - The number keyboard has a Done key and no longer covers Apply Filters. - Searching for a catalog ID such as NGC 705 lists the exact match first. - Choosing Solar System and Comets together shows both the planets and the comets. - Telescope times fill in at launch and after you change the date or telescope. - New users now start with deep-sky targets selected, and Apply Filters asks you to choose a target type if none is ticked. - The location permission message now uses the app's name, BigSky Planner.
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About
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 schedules targets through your Clear Sky areas, handles after-midnight windows, and gives unused Clear Sky time back to neighboring targets - 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.
What's new · 21.3
Now free to download - Start with a free 20-day trial, then unlock Full Access with a one-time in-app purchase. - If you bought BigSky Planner before it became free, you keep Full Access with no additional purchase. Access checks this automatically, and Restore Purchases checks again. - Bought the app before it became free and having trouble with access? Contact support@bigskyastro.com. New - Telescope limits by model: altitude, timing and Equatorial Mode limits for each smart telescope. - Every target card shows how long the target is in view tonight. - Build Plan schedules targets through your Clear Sky areas, and unused time inside a Clear Sky span goes back to the targets beside it. - A capture shorter than 30 minutes shows "A Capture Needs a Change", with a longer seat or a replacement that you can accept or decline. - An object listed under several catalog numbers appears as one target card with its common name. - Weather defaults to Automatic: NOAA in the United States and MET Norway elsewhere, with no account or key. Open-Meteo works with your own key. - Back up on iPhone or iPad and restore on a Mac or Windows PC, or the other way around. - More accurate planet and Moon positions. - A Credits page in Set Up. - Text follows your iPhone or iPad text size, and short labels stay whole at the largest sizes. - The illustrated user manual has a new Troubleshooting section. Fixes - A New Moon no longer draws as a solid white disc on the Weather tab. - Apply Filters works before you set a magnitude; the magnitude limit now starts at 17. - The number keyboard has a Done key and no longer covers Apply Filters. - Searching for a catalog ID such as NGC 705 lists the exact match first. - Choosing Solar System and Comets together shows both the planets and the comets. - Telescope times fill in at launch and after you change the date or telescope. - New users now start with deep-sky targets selected, and Apply Filters asks you to choose a target type if none is ticked. - The location permission message now uses the app's name, BigSky Planner.
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