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Originally Posted by AndrewF
Sky Safari is excellent but I reckon a planisphere is a must when first starting out.
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For apps, I'd suggest having both Stellarium and Sky Safari.
Stellarium is good because you can easily set it to emulate the Bortle scale of light pollution, so you can more easily see what stars are actually visible to you, and see those at their approximate brightness after light pollution has been factored in.
Sky Safari, is more like an electronic planisphere in that it shows everything, without any light pollution.
However, in terms of being able to identify what I'm actually looking at, by the relative positions of stars within groups of stars visible in my eyepieces, Sky Safari seems to do a better job of showing where the stars are, relative to each other, than Stellarium.