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I have never used (or seen first hand) Bisque's hardware, but from what I've read and seen in pictures it must be awesome.
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Some of their software on the other hand I have experienced, "The Sky X" for Mac in my case. I'm hesitant to say this but it was so bad it was almost comical. It was practically unusable and, as software goes, the worst $100+ dollars I've ever spent.
The UI was full of cut-off buttons, text that wouldn't fit in the allotted space, and most spectacular of all DSO images that would rotate 360º around their centre when I shifted the FOV by 45º or so. When they started asking for more money after 12 months for bug fixes that never occurred I gave it a miss and filed it under mistakes to learn from.
Needless to say, I will never spend another cent on their wares, no matter how sexy and well made their mounts look (and probably are).
As software goes, I'm still not really satisfied with the choices I have today. My mainstay is SkySafari Pro, but it is lacking a lot of things I had gotten used to with XEphem during the nineties. Things like measuring angles between any two point in the sky, or solving for minima or maxima or plotting curves of any numeric value the programme could calculate. It seems that planetarium software mainly shoots for visual impact these days.
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Cheers
Steffen.
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