4/5/2023 0 Comments Skysafari plus macos![]() You can show very detailed information and a photo for any object. I reported a minor display formatting bug in v1.0.1 it has been fixed in v1.0.2. When you click a planet (or any search object), whether or not the object is highlighted, the display will slew to center that object (which may be below the horizon at the current time). When you select something from the Search menu, a pane opens with those objects, with currently visible objects highlighted, as seen here for Planets: It does not bring up a search dialog box. What may not be obvious is that selecting "Find Objects" from the Search menu will select this search field. When you start typing in the Search field, you immediately see matches, which narrow down as you type more: You can also just enter some text in the Search field at the top right of the display, as seen to the right. There is an extensive list of searchable objects: Once you do that, you get a report of what was updated: You can update Solar System data in the Solar System pane. This has been reported, along with the suggestion to hide the AM/PM buttons when in 24-hour time display. Each time an hour was entered and the Tab key pressed, the AM/PM setting would toggle and the display would jump from daytime to nighttime or back. Re-entering 20 and pressing Tab would get 8 PM. For example, if 20 was entered for the Hours and you pressed Tab, the display would jump to 8 AM. With 24-hour time selected, entering an hour greater than 12 would yield unepected results. You can enter a specific time for the chart display (fields at the bottom): You can animate the motion of the display to show movement of the sky and objects. The first thing you may notice is the strikingly realistic visible display: With the setups now done, I began exploring the application. Some settings can also be done from the toolbar buttons. All settings can be set from the Settings menu: I then continued setting up the appearance for the app. With v1.0.1, there was a crashing problem (reported by me and others) when entering data in the Location pane. Here you can see Location selected and the pane that appears: As with the iOS versions, you use buttons on a toolbar (at the top of the screen on the Mac). Once I got the serial number, I went through all the settings to configure the application for my way of using it. There is a "deactivate" function if you need to remove one of the computers so that you can run it on a new computer. The serial number can be used on up to three computers. Southern Stars has updated their web site to include this important point. Once the application was "activated" in the admin account, I still had to manually enter the serial number from my user account. When I used an account with administrator privileges, the purchase went through easily. Initially I tried purchasing the serial number from within a non-admin account, but the purchase would always fail. I had a glitch trying to purchase a serial number, which is done from within the Pro version. I will update this review when I have done these additional tests. I hope to test it with my very old Keyspan USB-Serial adapter once I install the latest drivers for the adapter. I was unable to test the telescope control with my ETX and LX200-ACF telescopes using the Wi-Fi capabiities as my SkyFi Wi-Fi is being repaired by Southern Stars. I used the Pro version on my MacBook Pro 17", 10.7.1, 1920x1200, with a wireless Magic Mouse. It needs a screen resolution of at least 1280x720. SkySafari for Mac OS X requires 10.6 or 10.7, and supports many Lion (10.7) features, including multitouch gestures. Southern Stars has a web page with a more complete comparison of the version differences. SkySafari Plus and Pro add wired and wireless telescope control. Adds 15 million stars, 740,000 deep sky objects, 550,000 solar system objects, and telescope control.Īll versions contain the encyclopedic descriptive content and astronomical image gallery found in our iPhone apps. Adds 2.5 million stars, 30,000 deep sky objects, and wired or wireless telescope control. Our introductory version, with 120,000 stars and the 220 Messier/Caldwell deep sky objects. These new SkySafari applications are based on the SkySafari apps for iOS, previously reviewed here: " SkySafari 3", " SkySafari 3 Plus", and " SkySafari 3 Pro".Īs described by Southern Stars, here are the main differences in the three Mac versions: Besides the "Pro" version, there is a "basic version" ($4.99) and a "Plus" version ($19.99). Southern Stars provided a review copy of " SkySafari Pro for Mac OS X", one of three new versions of SkySafari.
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