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I have just spent a couple of hours testing out my new skyfi adapter and comparing starmap pro and sky voyager.
What I like about starmap pro is the serial wifi connection is almost instant and is very stable - if it drops out the reconnection is almost immediate. Skyvoyager on the other hand takes a long time to make an initial connection and then the connection seems less stable- it drops out and then sometimes takes a long time to reconnect.
Starmap pro's object lists seem better organised to me so I guess I agree with Phil it is a better planning tool. On the other hand starvoyager has a lot of interesting background info built in about huge range of objects. I think it would be a handy tool for answering questions on public viewing nights.
I like Skyvoyager's interface better. I find the object labels easier to read in the dark- the font is sharper somehow. I also like the align button (not available on skymap pro) which resets the equatorial and alt az coordinates on my scope so that they match he object I have selected in skyvoyager. I will always be doing my star alignments with sky voyager as a result. I have home built Bartels system so this is a really useful feature for me.
For some reason I kept getting the compass interference message after I had been observing for a 90 mintes or so. This made starmap pro almost unusable as I could not get the message to go away. It was not as much of an issue with skyvoyager. The message would show briefly and automatically go off after a second or two.
I have astromist too so I am looking forward to being able to use it as well. I used to use it with bluetooth on a Pocket PC and found it worked very well.
Rod.
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