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Astromist app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 800 ratings )
Weather Education
Developer: Cyrille Thieullet
14.99 USD
Current version: 4.2.3, last update: 3 years ago
First release : 25 Jun 2010
App size: 60.25 Mb

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"For any astronomer from beginner to advanced astronomers having large aperture telescopes, cameras and observatories."
"Astromist has what you need, big or small, when you need it!"

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Pros and cons of Astromist app for iPhone and iPad

Astromist app good for

More than 2,5 Millions objets Able to drive your Telescope trough wifi Many informations about each planets Moon a lot of détails mare mountain cratères etc Détails and pictures for galaxies cluster supernovae from Bob Gendler Follow the satellites and Space station Extract What you want to observe during the night Follow up your own observation And many other things
Astromist is the best astronomy software for PDA I saw, with many more features than competition.
I used Astromist on my Palm T/X and was very happy to see it released for the iPhone. Although it doesnt have a glitzy interface it is much more powerful (and configurable) in my opinion than some of the others out there.
The learning curve is a bit steeper than with some competitors, but the feature set is second-to-none. An excellent app for serious amateur astronomers.
This is a great app for any astronomy enthusiast to add to their collection. There is a lot of information here and very intuitive. Get this app no matter which level your interest in astronomy is at.
I have depended on Astromist for many years on various devices and platforms. This compendious tool with its powerful database and jaw-dropping set of tools, features and functions will be extremely useful, even indispensable, to any astronomer from beginner to advanced astronomers having large aperture telescopes, cameras and observatories. It is much, much more than just any one type of tool. Read the description to find out all that it offers, (and I dont even think that that is a complete list!) Astromist is a magnificent program that doesnt hide inadequacy behind pretty pictures, it has what you need, big or small, when you need it!

Some bad moments

Do not update to v3.2 released Sept 17, 2012. It crashes upon load and fails to run (on a new iPad running the latest iOS 5).
The update adds ever more astonishing features, but does not address the underlying problem with the interface. As an incomplete port, Astromist essentially continues to turn your iPhone into an awkward Pocket PC. It is the king of capabilities, but is too difficult to use. Needs to be able to store more than one telescope. Updates should not delete laboriously entered Preferences. Newly advertised feature of exporting catalogs and lists is too complicated to be useful. One does not click to magically upload, but laboriously creates text files and spreadsheets manually. The author appears to be so profoundly fluid in outdated interfaces as to be unaware of these problems. A magnificently and uniquely powerful program if you can stand to use it. Prior Review: Stellar Capabilities; Difficult Interface Astromist is a port from the Palm and Windows Mobile platforms. It is as powerful as advertised, yet is severely hampered in carrying all the flaws of those platforms to the iPhone. Icons intended for a sharp-pointed stylus are too small to see or tap, navigation is arcane, the pixellated charts are difficult to read, the glaring colors of Palm and Windows Mobile are unfriendly to night vision, and the monochromatic, red night vision overlays obscure the display. Reviewers who describe it as "easy to use" note having already learned it on a another platform. Download the 129 page instruction manual. Unlike with intuitive iPhone apps, you will need it. The five different types of star charts illustrate the problem of a direct port. Unlike the devices from which Astromist is ported, the iPhone has powerful graphics. It is capable of drawing a spherical chart that is elegant, intuitive, and fully panable and zoomable. No need for the distorted "Horizon" view or separate flat map of the entire sky; competing apps simply show any desired part of their single, spherical chart. On the other hand, Astromist is decidedly geared toward helping serious observers at the scope. If you can stand the quirks and steep learning curve, Astromist is the only iPhone app that can answer questions like this: "Save me a list of all nebulae and comets that will be of medium difficulty to find 20° or higher above the horizon with my 6" scope at my clubs star party on a specific date and time two months (or twenty years!) from now." Ive used it to hunt for currently visible double stars. Trouble is, once I have the list saved, I generally need to find the stars in another app in order to see them on a legible display. Support is excellent. The author responds in detail to eMail almost faster than one can send him questions. As a new port, its safe to presume Astromist is a work in progress. Its difficult to be fair in assigning a single star rating to such an astonishing creation, because the usability of the interface is so out of proportion to the underlying codes many merits. Conception * * * * * Engineering * * * * * Comprehensiveness * * * * * Support * * * * * Interface * Overall * * * This great work of unprecedented potential needs to be fully ported to the iPhone to warrant its price and five stars.
Ive loved this app for years, ever since I had it on my Palm. Ive been anxiously waiting for the iPad version to be released - but the one I downloaded last night is a disaster. It crashes all the time and the images, buttons, displays, etc have not been resized for the larger screen. Please fix!!