Planisphere App Reviews

A winner. Does what it says. Lot's of layering options including deep sky objects so you can focus on what you want and leave out the other stuff. Very reasonable price. Nightlight. Nice job. I recommend it. Made for someone that will use it in the field.

Good Concept but needs much improvement. The idea is great but the calibration is inaccurate and there is no option to recalibrate at will. If calibration issues are fixed I would highly recommend this to friends. I hope to see some updates.

I LIKE IT......................,............B..U...T. WISH I COULD GIVE THIS ,BUT NOT JUST YET. I WAS JUST CURIOUS AS TO WHY EARTH WASN'T LISTED AS PART OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEMI MEAN.....IS IT MEAM I WRONGI FOUND THE LIST TO HAVE EVERYONE ELSE ON IT.....EXCEPT EARTH.IF I'M MISTAKEN,OK.IF NOT,COULD YOU PLEASE INCLUDE IT IN YOUR NEXT UPDATEALSO,I'VE FOUND THAT THE LETTERING IS WAY TO SMALL TO READ,COULD YOU IMPROVE UPON THAT AS WELL PLEASE I LIKE WHAT YOU'VE DONE,I HOPE TO SEE SOME UPDATE'S SOON. DAVE MOORE SOUTH END BOSTON,MASS.  MY EYE'S AREN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE.

Excellent Digital Planisphere With One Glaring Hitch:. YOU have to update the time manually by going into the settings. The graphics, zoom function, and other features are first rate for a no-cost download. It sure beats carrying around one of the plastic plansipheres! But back to the major issue I have with this app. Step 1: Set your Location Step 2: Set current/use device time Step 3: Exit to the planisphere(main) window. Suppose it's 8:00AM in Chicago on August 23rd. The planisphere displays accordingly. But now you want to see the sky in the Philippines - where you know its after dark. So you look up "Manila" in the location list, select it, and exit back out to the planisphere. Instead of a dark sky correctly showing what is overhead for the Philippines at 8PM - you see what 8:00AM would look like from that country! What the . . .?! Budapest Hungary: Same thing - except at 8AM there the sun(and the ecliptic) are much lower in the sky than in Manila. BUT - don't forget - while you were looking at the sky you pulled up at 8AM the time has become 8:06! Oops, gotta go back into the Settings and touch Time Now again! And now you can see what the sky looks like at 8:06AM in Paris, Rio De Janeiro, Tokyo, or anywhere your heart desires. Come on!! So basically this is just like the plastic plansiphere you may have had in school or seen in a nature shop - plastic horizon simulating your latitude, with disk below with all the stars and coordinates on it - that you have to set yourself! Otherwise, I'd give it five stars.

Worth it. Totally awesome :D nice features

Needs work. The compass function displays incorrectly

This is great fun!. I play around with this with my grand kids. It teaches them while having fun. Great app

Just needs one fix. Downloaded this app for my astronomy lab. Cool app, everything is really clear, but the GPS function does not work. My phone's GPS is completely functional when I use maps, compass, etc., but not when I use this app. I'll point it clearly at one constellation and it will give me a completely different one. No complaints about anything else in the app. If this one fix is made, it'll be perfect.

It works. It's works, not a super awesome app, but for 99cents it's good. If you have an astronomy class it comes in handy or if you just like to know what's above you.

Planisphere!. Very happy with this program; it does exactly what I want without a lot of unnecessary bells and whistles!

Great app!. This is a great app to play around with! Works great! I just wish I could choose a specific date to view directly instead of going hour by hour into the future or past. Other than that minor issue, I love it!

Well conceived, expertly coded. This app has five-star underpinnings, the kind you'd expect from a developer whose Moon Map is coded as a fully rotateable, zoomable, rendered sphere, rather than just a bunch of photographs. With so much information presented with such clarity and ease of use at such a low price, this new entry is poised to become a favorite. Experienced astronomers will want it as a comprehensive quick reference, and beginners will be well rewarded with a fine download worth well more than its $0.99. This first release feels perfected like a third or fourth update, especially with its simple, efficient operation. Even so, for its fifth star, I'd like to see more flexible hiding of objects not of current interest, to render the display easier to read: dim stars, constellation boundries, and the like. I'd also appreciate if the delicate images were beefed up for forty-year-old eyes. Such a fine astronomy app at this price point could tip the curious into becoming ametuer astronomers. Support this developer. He deserves it.<><><><><>A Note to Dave Moore of South Boston: Serious planetaria (star charting apps) do not list Earth because they look outward; they list other objects one can see from Earth at a given time. Orreries (apps showing the relative motions of the planets) do show Earth, because they look inward, as though from outside the solar system, with Earth just another object to be studied. A few planeteria list the Earth as "always visible," a corny joke that can confuse beginners, an important clientele that deserves more respect. It sounds sarchastic, but is not: It's understood that if you want to see the stars and Messier objects, look up using Planisphere as a guide, but if you want to see the Earth, look down at your feet.

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Works but .... I just hate planispheres that you have to hold over your head. I want a map view, i.e. projected on the ground, not on the sky. I was hoping this app would give me the option of having it either way. Compass only works sometimes on my iPad 2.

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