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Been a SN user since v3 or v4 (I forget which) and upgraded to v6 SNPP, but it's always been little more than a gigantic resource-hogging QuickTime app, and I got sick of the issues arising whenever Apple made QT even worse than it already was.
Maybe it's time to take another look now that it's at v7, but it faces some pretty stiff competition, and most of it free: C2A, CdC, HNSky, XEphem and all the rest.
As for looks, I think Stellarium is probably the winner there, although Voyager is another flashy one, as is KStars. It doesn't make them any more functional, though, and the "plainer" industrial-grade apps like C2A, CdC, etc are hard to beat, especially at the price!
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