Astromist App Reviews

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.

I have owned this app on my Palm TX for years! I heard rumor that it was being developed for the iPhone, and now here it is! I can finally retire my Palm OS device (R.I.P.) I dont have a fancy robotic scope yet, perhaps one day. I look forward to seeing how this app and competing products like Star Map HD progress and the Orion app in those regards. A few things I would like to see added are more tools for astrophotographers, better timers and exposure and lens calculations, and suggestions based on targets. Also, I miss being able to navigate the sky using the built in compass. Something this app is sorely missing compared to other apps. It should be taking full advantage of the Apple hardware. I have always had a beef with the multitude of icons and settings on the screens as well. I think these need to be more refined, as well as the interface. The page turns annoy me something fierce as is having to always try to figure out how to navigate back screens. I do like the fact that I can use the App on my iPhone and iPad without having to buy different HD versions though. PS - Again, the timers for astrophograhers here are useless without audible tones in increments, or before an exposure is about to end. Also, simply displaying a tiny timer in the top right corner when you have the full resolution of the iPad screen. Yah, this can be done better.

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 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!

I had this on an old Palm and was a Beta tester and really love Astromist on the IPod Touch. It is better or comparable to the others I have tried, and I own most of the other higher end astronomy tools on the IPod touch. I love the way it works, and the enormous catalogs included. It is very customizable and allows you to turn on and off display feature easily, and has a great logging tool for observers. The ability to create custom lists has always been one of my favorite features.

I have been using Astromist Since 2007 on the HP Ipac platform, There is no other Astronomy Program Like It, Everthing is Available at your fingertips The Sky Charts, Moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Twlight times for your location, Everything you can possibly need for a nights observing all in one program. Easy interface , stunning graphics and a wealth of information for the Beginner and Advance Amateur Astronomer, Truely a program Produced by An Amateur Astronomer for Amateur Astronomers indespenseable at the Telescope.

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.

This app is incredible! Not because it is a perfectly written app or because of its ease of use, it is far from achieving those goal; but because of the shear volume of information packed into this software. I have every astronomy app made on my iTouch and I was overwhelm with the amount of icons to choose from. Heck, I had to consult the Palm OS manual just to know how to save my location coordinates. There is no manual on their website for v3.0 for the iPhone, which is makes frustrating. Normally I would give such an app a lower rating but I want the designers to keep working on this potential masterpiece. If they would at least write an instruction manual for it I would have given 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!!

Application was initially very unstable, but I was able to fix it by rebooting the iPad. Its been working fine since. Ive been using this app for years, starting with the Palm OS version, and its even better on the iPhone/iPad. One of the best astronomy programs available.

This version boots! It has many features other programs dont have, its worth it for those features alone. Five stars when scale issues of controls and screens for the iPad are resolved.....

I have had Astromist for years with my palm and it was always accurate. I got it for my iPhone and the azimuth and altitude is totally wrong not just a little. It is useless to me. I emailed Cyrill Theiullet & in a day he got back to me with the solution to my problem. The apt on the iPad is much better than it was on the Palm. I am very satisfied now and it works perfect. Pete

Used the ppc version for a couple of years, and tolerated the numerous bugs because it is so rich in features. But this version is a total disaster, with frequent crashes and features that dont work right. Guess Ill wait yet another couple of years for the bugs to get worked out. Too bad, because when it works its great. Til then, your money is better spent on a different program. Update 2/27/2011: This latest version seems much more stable, and I no longer experience crashes. For solar system info, this app is equivalent to an astronomy Swiss Army knife, and I now use it almost daily for that. So Ive changed the rating from 2 to 4. However, the apps organization, UI, and depiction of stars and deep sky are a mess and need serious reworking. Please note that, in spite of my name "South Star", I am not connected in any way with the firm Southern Stars, although in my opinion their app SkySafari is far and away the best astro app currently available.

Good News - This app has incredible functionality. I wish there was a desktop version. Bad News - There is no written documentation. There are some videos, but without sound. Trying to learn this app is painful at best. Also, the UI is a port from the palm. ICONs are so small you have to memorize their locations.

But since getting a 4gs and iOS 5.01 this app no longer works . It now crashes on startup. Hope this gets fixed soon . Update:For some reason when I downloaded this app via iCloud it would not work I just downloaded it again from the app store and now it works.

I loved this app. It does so much. All the basics and even wiz bang stuff to show off to friends that dont know much about astronomy. But it has stuff that actually matters when youre behind the eyepiece or trying to explain stuff to folks at a sidewalk event. This app was great on my palm treo (I paid twice the price on that tiny screen and it was worth it) and its even better on my iPad.