Astronomy Apps

Hi, does anyone know what has happened to NZ Telescopes in Timaru? Business has closed apparently & they are not replying to any attempts at contact, I still have an unfilled order. Cheers Larry Anderson.

Hi,

Sorry! – i didn’t know that links get automatically removed.

The website for the android app is ‘zima.co’ – well worth the purchase, as for phones – depending on budget I’d avoid the likes of samsung (costs far too much for what you get)…i have been using a OnePlus and for the money its amazing quality and the software hasn’t been comepletly ruined (looking at you samsung)

have a look through PBTech in christchurch and let me know as I can get you a discount on the products in there! 🙂

Hi Tracey.

My apologies for not jumping in sooner. I don’t seem to be receiving email alerts from the forums anymore. I have probably forgotten to click on something somewhere on the new website.

This is my current astronomy app line-up on my main devices (the Tab S2 and Moto G4, both running on 7.1.1). Note that some of the apps are generic but I tend to use them in ways primarily linked to astronomy. I have put a * in front of the ones I use a lot.

Note, also, that I detest being interrupted or distracted by ads so I tend to buy the Pro versions. In the case of SkySafari Pro, though, I buy the top-level package because it has an excellent depth in the catalogues right off the bat, along with several other features that make me want to part with a considerable (for an app) sum of money. I recommend the free or inexpensive versions if you don’t need to see what is hanging around in your test image at apparent magnitude 20+. There is also a Celestron SkyPortal version of SkySafari for those lucky Cele$tron owners.

Planning and observing:
– **SkySafari 5 Pro (and waiting impatiently for version 6 Pro to drop)
– *Night Sky Tools
– Astro Panel
– Clear Outside
– Flowx
– *Ventusky
– Windy
– *Moon Phase Pro (handy widget)
– LunarMap HD
– *Scope Timer Plus (mainly the widget, which gives the current sidereal time)
– Meteor Shower
– Stellarium Mobile
– KStars Lite
– plus shortcuts to several websites, which apparently get removed from the forums so I won’t bother tapping the addresses out. Descriptively, they are:
– *YR (Norwegian) weather forecast for Christchurch
– *NZCity weather forecast for Christchurch
– *MetService’s IR and visual weather maps
– *Several of Jim Kaler’s webpages having to do with stars and DSOs
– Courtenay Seligman’s astronomy atlas index webpage
– *Various sites pertaining to Tatai Arorangi

Set-up, etc.:
– *NTPSync
– GPS Status
– SynscanInit 2.1
– Smart Tools

Astrophotography (specifically):
– Astrofoto Calculator
– Astronomy CCD Calculator
– DSLR Controller (for occasional wifi connection to my Canon 6D)
– TimeLapse Calculator Pro
– Hyperlapse
– weblink shortcut to Gary Seronik’s website

Outreach/Education:
– ISS Detector Pro
– Solar System Scope Pro
– Earth Impacts Map
– NASA Viz (NASA Visualization Explorer)
– Variable Stars
– Loss of the Night
– and I’ll occasionally download other apps (e.g., 3D Galaxy Map Pro, Exo planets Explorer 3D Pro, a few quantum physics apps) depending on the talk or session I might be doing that evening.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Gary Steel.

@Tracey Richards. What next? I’m hoping some bright coder figures out a Sleep-For-me app…