I even took it further for a short while, going back to printed star atlases for a night or two. Yes it would. One night with the 10-inch and the star clusters of Cassiopeia showed that. In hindsight I should have ordered one off the Internet, but you know what they say about that. The most important thing you should know is that, in the eastern zodiac, the passing from one sign to another happens once every year (not every month). The factor of the Sun Sign and the Rising Sign and their proper interpretation is very interesting subject which has been the focus of a great deal of research over the last century or so. Unlike the Sun sign based Western System, Indastro & Vedic Astrology uses the Moon Sign as the basis of all predictions. A blue super giant, Rigel shines 40,000 times brighter than our sun! Phone service was spotty, but I was able to get wi-fi, and thought I’d have a look at the weather predictions for Friday night. In night vision red it was just right for the backyard. Hard for me to read under a dim red light, hard to find stuff, and wonderful for collecting dew.

I might want a red film filter over the screen at a dark site, though. If you want to learn about them you can learn Palmistry and it enables you to predict the future just by reading the palm of the person. Still, I didn’t want to drag a freaking 17-inch Alienware laptop out for a half hour jaunt across the backyard sky. I just didn’t realize how it it is till I used the program on the 7-inch Tablet. An excellent deal on an iPhone 6s (no Plus) with 64 gigs AND an Asus 7-inch tablet with Wi-Fi plus cell-tower capability. That enormous mashup of smart phone and tablet? Yep. I knew the reason why I wasn’t using my smart phone more for astronomy: the screen. There is no doubt SkySafari is and will likely remain the premier planetarium program for smart devices for the foreseeable future. There is no way to control a DSLR or CCD with a tablet or phone without having a laptop in the mix, not yet, not that I am aware of. Probably not. Oh, I might if I could but I can’t yet, and likely neither will you. When you move to the Astro Gold program all of your saved io chart files will be converted into their format automatically.

I had that tablet loaded up with what was an attractive and legible and detailed planetarium program. The Department of Astronomy offers a rich and varied program of theoretical, observational, and experimental graduate work leading to the PhD in astronomy. Would it work for my visual observing? You either work hard or not at all. Reached in my pocket and grabbed the phone. It was sorta like using my old print fave, Sky & Telescope’s Pocket Sky Atlas. It’s made of a glass-like composite of some sort similar to the screen, and looked like it would soon be falling to pieces and cutting a hole in my leg if I put it back in my pocket. Newcomers like the Bisques’ TheSky for iOS (specifically designed for the iPad) may gain ground as they mature, but for now SkySafari is it. It feels like I’m a little lost and can’t make up my mind, and don’t have anyone to talk about this with.

Make Viking bread, Viking helmets, shields, and swords and “sail” to Vineland (America) as a Viking, and more! Astrology illustrates a general image on the probable incidents that have more likelihood of occurring in the near future or few years down the path. With 2.6-million deep sky objects and 31,000 deep sky objects, it was at least obvious Plus would be way more powerful than the basic edition. In the past. I’d used the basic version of the app on my 4s and my old iPod Touch occasionally. As you know if you are a faithful reader, when I’ve done visual observing lately my tendency has been “simplify, simplify, simplify,” beginning with my switch to a 10-inch Zhumell Dobsonian, Zelda, from my truss scope, Old Betsy. I’ve been impressed by the Android Phones, particularly the Samsung Galaxy, but my inclination was to stick with the iPhone, which I’ve been using for years.