You can still control your mount with the Serious Astronomer version. You won't be able to Plate Solve, run Dome Control, etc. So for more up-to-date appearance, and functionality.and having no previous Planetarium program as yet, I would take the plunge and get The SkyX Serious Astronomer. If you have an observatory, the SkyX Pro would probably be more suited to your needs. I already use Sequence Generator Pro and PHD2 for imaging and guiding. ![]() Considerably cheaper, SGP is the "best in the house" for imaging. It has a built in Plate Solver, and is a steal at US $99.00 and PHD2 guiding designed to run with SGP is freeware and in use by so many of us. Good luck you your choice! Clear Skies!Įdited by RandallK, 24 February 2019 - 08:11 PM. I have both TheSky X and Starry Night 8 Pro Plus. ![]() I'll tell you how I use them which may help you decide. I am strictly a visual observer and enjoy public outreach. Out in the field at my telescope I don't use either TheSky or Starry Night. I don't use a laptop in the field at all. SkySafari connects to both my Inteliscope dobs through SkiFi wifi hub. This setup works great and accurately guides my scope to any target I wish. I use SkySafari's observing list to guide my scope to cool new targets and I log my observations right at the scope. SkySafari covers 100% of my needs at the scope. So how does that relate to Starry Night? It's 2019 and the modern way to use computers are different. You edit an Excel file on your laptop and little later that update is synced to your phone. Create a Onenote on your phone and view and add to on your laptop. My phone is an extension of my laptop, same data and changes sync back and forth. That has been the proper way to use computers for the past decade. Astronomy software has been way behind until Starry Night 8. The logs I enter in SkySafari at my scope sync in real time for me to relive the memory in Starry Night the next morning. I can create an observing plan in Starry Night the afternoon before an observing session and it is on my phone ready to go when I connect it to my scope. TheSkyX doesn't have anything remotely close to that. ![]() The deepsky database in Starry Night 8 is major, big, huge, mega, much, more, lots, groovy improved. It is large, plotting most objects seen in most amateur telescopes. The charts are easy to read, clear and the allsky photos are great. Very useful for clusters, nebula and dark nebula. Starry Night is second to none for public outreach and education. It graphically shows how eclipses work, motions of the sky, 3D view of the solar system and distribution of galaxies in our universe. I use Starry Night to generate videos on many different educational concepts to post on Facebook. Searching and filtering to generate observing list is very poor. The symbols for galaxies does not represent position angle and elongation. The deepsky data, though much improved, is very poor for galaxy clusters. Actually Starry Night is not great for those with a 20" dob that is mega serious with galaxy observing.
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