When I bought my first manual telescope (a used 18” Obsession) I lucked out….. it was a clear night the next night! Then I went outside with it and spent 45 minutes trying to find my first DSO. Pointing the tiny tiny view into the big sky accurately was a lot harder than I thought. So after a 3 hour session I had seen 4 objects!
Then it was cloudy for 3 weeks straight. And I live in Arizona!
I thought then it would be great to have a tool to help people learn how to hop from star to star while comfy inside, or during the day or on those cloudy nights! 7 years later and I finally have it working and up for both IOS and Android.
I have a standard version which is Free. I hope it can help people avoid the frustration I had.
I have a Pro version too, which adds some neat features and helps me offset the cost of putting these apps up in the stores.
* night mode
* you can enter your own telescope info and eyepieces so the view in the app matches your view
* a light pollution setting which will make the star field closer to your viewing area
* there are 20 extra hops in the app
* a progress chart to show which hops you have and haven’t done
* there is a custom hop page where you can enter any hop you want to practice (planets, comets, supernova, asteroid, whatever you want)
IOS:
Standard: https://apps.apple.c...er/id1659902403
Pro: https://apps.apple.c...ro/id1660056372
Android:
Standard: https://play.google....om.starhop.free
Pro: https://play.google....com.starhop.pro