Observation Session
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Skycharts
5 types avalaibles.
Stars down to magnitude 14.
More than 18000 DSO included with their images.
Full Night Vision mode.
Too numerous options to be listed.
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Object Information
All the usefull information in the field.
Visual DSO observation indicator considering your sky and instrument.
Quick access to the well known DSO catalogs as well as planet, meteor, bright stars and more.
Quick view of the object's skychart position and photo.
Your best eyepiece to use in order to observe it
Visual indicator for rise/transit/set.
Visual indicator about the best period of observation over the year.
Short Dreyer description plus a full language translator.
Goto the object
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Night Tripper
Manage your whole night session from one assistant.
Create/Manage custom lists of objects (up to 500) using numerous criteria to prepare you observation session.
Fast access to any object (Goto with your instrument, SkyChart, Photo, Observer log).
Several sort available.
Your best eyepiece to use in order to observe it
Night Planning of your session.
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Observer Log
Create/Edit/Manage your observation session.
Integrated from SkyChart or NightTripper.
Mail export
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Weather
Free access to a professional weather forecast service.
All the Forcast usefull in Astronomy for the next 48h.
Forecast for the next 7 days.
Forecast for 3 different locations at a time.
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Twilight
Visual chart to determine the darkest period of your observation site and when you can observe a particular object (beginning of night, middle or morning)
Local, UT or daylight time
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Ephemeris
Visual ephemeris for any Astromist Object.
Find easily the best date to observe it at any time.
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Sky Objects
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Planets
Planets path among the sky.
Forecast of event using several charts.
Computation of any planet's'event on a 50 years period.
Numerous type of ephemeris.
3d view of all Solar planets and major satellites.
And more...
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Moon
Several Ephemeris (Calendar, Rise and Set, Darkest hours, Visibility, moon events).
3 level of moon map.
All known feature down to 8km size with their photos (Crater, Catena, Lacus, Mons, Ocean and Sea).
Easy forecast of terminator crossing over any moon feature (visual or by computation).
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Eclipse
All type of Solar or Moon Eclipse.
Fully integrated Solar eclipse computation at any date. No need of extrernal data or Internet link.
Determine visualy any information about the eclipse shadow like diameter, inclination, speed, earth location, etc.
Earth map for the solar eclipse to determine in a tap any local circunstance.
Eclipse (Moon or Solar)diagrams similar to the Nasa one.
Sky simulation of the eclispe.
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Mars
Mars map with more than 800 features (Catena, cCavus, Chasma, Crater, Landing area, Mons, Planitia, Planum, Rupes, Terra) including their photos.
3D view of mars to show you what you can see at the eyepiece at the best periods.
Visual Mars satellite ephemeris.
Visual ephemeris to see the greatest dates of observation.
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Jupiter
Visual Ephemeris about Jupiter Satellites.
Visual ephemeris about Red Spot.
Assistant to compute the GRS latitude value upon your visual observation.
Acurate Ephemeris about satelites events (transit, shadow, occultation, etc).
And more...
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Saturn
Visual Ephemeris about Saturn Satellites.
Visual Ephemeris to see the greatest date to observe the ring.
Acurate Ephemeris about satelites events (transit, shadow, occultation, etc) at their best period of observation.
And more...
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Comet/Asteroid
Heliocentric view of the comet or asteroid path.
Dynamic Skyview of any comet or asteroid path(1 day up to 90days step).
Several ephemeris (position, best date, brightest, closest).
Synchronization to your refence web source.
Unlimited number of comet and asteroid.
And more...
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Earth Satellite
Dynamic Global path over the earth.
Dynamic Skyview of satellite path.
Several ephemeris (Pass, Next visible, Flare, Transit over moon or sun, Globe view).
Synchronization to your refence web source.
Unlimited number of Earth Satellite.
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DSO Finder
Quick search to all the catalogs in a finger move
Your best eyepiece to use in order to observe it
Fast access to any object (Goto with your instrument, SkyChart, Photo).
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Hardware
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Mount Setup
Integrated level to level your mount.
Takahashi Polar scope simulator.
King method Assistant to align your mount to the true pole.
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Mount Control
Dynamic SkyChart during the goto.
Control of the goto its progress.
Current position from your mount.
Delta to target for encoder tracking.
Fine mount slew adjustment.
Internal Gyroscope support.
More than 20 mount protocols implemented
Bluetooth support since 2004 (under progress since 4.0 for Ios)
Wifi support
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2 Star Aligment
The best for Encoder users.
Select the star using the skychart.
Very good accuracy.
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N Star Aligment
The best for any type of mount (Azt, Eq, Dobson).
Similar to some expensive professionnal mount control software.
More than 8 differents types of error correction (aligment, construction, tilt, flexure, etc).
Visual indicator before/after.
Improve aligment even with one added star !
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Camera
Quick setup of Timelapse
Create and Manage predefined setup
Notification for manual control
Wireless control of your canon camera (palm, pocket PC, Ios under progress)
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