Doug9559

Totally agree. The last update was May 2023 and that's a looong time ago for an app. Rumours about Dwarf3 also make me nervous about continuing support for Dwarf2. You're right about the GOTO list, for this type of equipment I think this needs updating and maybe could be done ahead of other things (do you read SGL posts DwarfLab?). Still for the price a great bit of kit.

I'd recommend it as Stu1smartcookie says for the quick setup and easy operation. I wouldn't describe it as a toy but obviously it can't compete with a "proper" rig. I've used it for the last month from Wolverhampton but haven't had many clear nights when I was in, I run the app on an 8 inch android tablet which gives a better view than a phone and use the free Snapseed app for post processing on the tablet. The attached of M31 was taken in back garden with a near full moon (the blue one haha) shining on the telescope and my skies are fairly light polluted, so you can get decent shots. I found manual inputting of targets is ok and also adds a bit of interest because you can look for the coords on Stellarium and pop those in, for example Brocchi's Cluster (the coathanger) below isn't in the built in database but fits the field of view well. I haven't yet tried downloading the raw fits files onto a PC and putting them through something like Deep Sky Stacker. By the way for best targets tonight I use two apps, Telescopius and SkEye. I'd be interested in any suggested Dwarf II targets from anyone. There's a rumour that DwarfLab will be selling a 2x telephoto lens but I don't know how true that is. It would help with things like M57 which is quite small in the field of view. I understand that Dwarf III is also in the pipeline but if that happens I hope the developers will continue to support Dwarf II - I think they will, they seem very customer orientated. Attached files: Brocchi's Cluster = 50 x 8 second images stacked on Dwarf2 and just cropped. M31 = 500 x 13 second images stacked on Dwarf2, cropped to remove field rotation, with auto curve adjustment made on the Android Snapseed app (I was lazy...).