Software

[carpman]

Hello all

I'll get straight to the point i have got the Skysafari lite app (amongst others) on my Iphone , when checking on the polaris info it tells me that polaris is in transit 19:10 today ! but when i checked with polar finder it says 22:20 , which is right ?????

I believe polar finder because most peeps use this for setting their scope/s up.

[Tim]

:icon_scratch:I hate to sound stoopid, but I honestly don't understand the question???

What are you trying to do?

[carpman]

right i have 2 pieces of software that tell me when polaris is in transit but they both give different times

[Glider]

Have both got the same date and time set, none BST, time zone, etc all correct? Have both got the same lat/long entered?

Just thinking of what could make them an hour'ish out.

[starstalker]

3 hours out surely?

[Glider]

Must get these glasses checked.

[Mikea]

They seem to have a big black bar across them Glider - maybe that's the problem! Should have gone to you-know-who!

[carpman]

cheers all have rechecked my location details , my phone sets them automatically , checked polar finder and location details were wrong now adjusted .

Both bits of software only got 10 mins difference between them now ....

[brantuk]

10 mins is a long distance in space lol

[GazOC]

I'd guess the movement of the star is that small that there is a lot of "wriggle room" (or "rounding errors" if we want to give it a more impressive sounding tag) when calculating the transit of Polaris.