View Single Post
  #6  
Old 03-12-2014, 01:41 AM
astroron's Avatar
astroron (Ron)
Supernova Searcher

astroron is offline
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Cambroon Queensland Australia
Posts: 9,326
Quote:
Originally Posted by mithrandir View Post
Ron, look at CdC, C2A, Hallo Northern Sky, Guide9, and Stellarium. All except Guide9 are free.

When it comes to star information and star fields all except Stellarium will let you use UCAC4 and possibly NOMAD. CdC has a "fairly simple" means of adding any catalog in Simbad/Vizier you like.

I have all of them as well as TheSky6. My favourite is CdC followed by Guide9. If you want to discuss at length we can take it offline.



Starry Night Pro+ 7 is not cheap (except as an upgrade from SNP+6) and still rather flakey.

Cheers Andrew, I will have a look at them on Google and see what they look like.
I used to have a "Friends Copy" of Starry Night Pro and didn't like it that much, in fact it irritated the hell out of me
I have always been a bit of a fan of "The Sky" but since I have been doing comet reports find it doesn't do the job I want it to do.
Cheers
Reply With Quote