SkySafari is an excellent sky simulation and charting app for iOS. With it, you can view the sky at any date and time, identify objects in the sky, read about celestial objects, learn the constellations and even control an amateur telescope. On December 15, SkySafari 5 Pro was released, with the Basic and Plus
SkySafari 6 Pro includes over 75 million stars down to 16th mangnitude, 3 million galaxies down to 18th magnitude, and 620,000 solar system objects; including every comet and asteroid ever discovered. And, state-of-the-art mobile telescope control.
This page contains links to the various web sites and other resources that we found useful in creating SkySafari and SkyFi. It also lists a few other sites of general interest to amateur astronomers. A few sites are listed more than once under different categories: for example, we found the HubbleSite to be an excellent resource for both solar system images and deep space images.
This section contains a copy of the SkySafari manual. This manual is also included with the SkySafari app, under the Help section. Sometimes it's convenient to have the manual on a separate screen while you're using the app, so we've included it here as well.
The videos on this page demonstrate the most important functions of SkySafari . They also show how to use SkySafari to connect with and control two common GoTo telescopes, using our SkyWire serial accessory as well as the SkyFi wireless telescope controller.
This section lists the answers to the questions that we most often recieve about SkySafari , SkyWire , and SkyFi via telephone and e-mail. You might try checking this page first if you have a question -- you'll probably find the answer faster here!
Having trouble using our apps? Need help understanding a feature in one of our programs? Looking for updates, downloads, or other information ? If so, you've come the the right place.
"This little box is absolutely amazing! It runs on iPad + Sky Safari no problem, which is what I expected and is amazing in its own right, but the ability to log onto the house WiFi network and being able to run programs with virtual ports (using COM2TCP) wirelessly is not what I expected... You really need to get the word out that this box is not just for running your GoTo scope with your iPhone, but it is also a full-fledged wireless interface to your ASCOM platform that can control your mount drive from anywhere within your local WiFi network. Very satisfied."
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