are correct - if you've accidentally set your observing location to California, but you're really in Colorado, that will make a big difference! You also might want to make sure that your location, time zone, date/time, etc. Satellite orbits change rapidly due to atmospheric drag, and due to perturbations from the Earth's non-spherical gravity field, so it's important to update your orbit data frequently - at least once a week - to get accurate predictions for them. This will import the latest satellite data from the CelesTrak. To update them, select to the Settings menu's Solar System item, then tap the Update Orbit Data button at the bottom.
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Your satellite orbital elements are probably out of date. But SkySafari's predictions for where the satellite is/when it passes overhead are wildly wong. I'm trying to observe a satellite, or the International Space Station. It is not available in the basic version. Please note: this feature is only present in SkySafari Plus and Pro. If you still can't find your asteroid or comet, the MPC may not yet have added it to its export files. This will import the latest asteroid/comet data from the Minor Planet Center. To add them, go to the Settings menu's Solar System item. Recently-discovered comets and asteroids may not be present in SkySafari's original database. I'm searching for Comet X or Asteroid Y, but it's not in your database. Use the projector as the second display, letting the warped sky display on the projector at a resolution of 1200 x 1200 or larger. Isolate the control panels and menu bar to the primary screen. Using a Mac with such a projector, the Mac's primary screen lets the planetarium operator control all display functions. Yes! Paul Bourke has created instructions for how to warp SkySafari's output for projection onto any planetarium dome using Quartz Composer. Can I project SkySafari's output onto my planetarium screen? I have a planetarium dome, and a projector with a fish-eye mirror. It only costs a few dollars, and if you like it, there's more where that came from! Our best suggestion is just to try out the basic version of SkySafari for macOS. We've already brought SkySafari's fluidity and smoothness from the iPhone to the Mac, and the much faster processor and graphics card in your Mac will make it run that much better. And the experience of running SkySafari on a Mac with a full-sized monitor, keyboard, and mouse is qualitatively different from running it on a tiny iPhone screen. It "looks and feels" like a proper macOS application, just like SkySafari for iOS "looks and feels" like a proper iPhone app. However, SkySafari for macOS has a completely rewritten user interface, with 100% native Cocoa macOS controls. SkySafari for macOS can do a few things that the iOS version can't (like print hard-copy sky charts), and vice-versa (like use the compass/accelerometer - which don't exist in desktop Macs - to give you a "live view" of the sky.) You can find a complete list of the differences between the versions of SkySafari for macOS on this page, and SkySafari for iOS on this page. How does SkySafari for macOS differ from SkySafari for iOS?įeature-wise, they are very similar.
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At these very low prices, we hope that SkySafari for macOS will provide you with tremendous value, in spite of being a separate purchase. Most desktop astronomy programs competing at SkySafari's level of sophistication cost hundreds of dollars - ours is priced, like our iPhone apps, at the cost of a pizza. We hope that this won't dissuade you from purchasing our Mac version separately. Even if we could offer you discount, Apple won't let us. Our Mac and iOS apps are sold through different app stores. SkySafari for macOS is a complete rewrite of our iOS app, running on a computer with a different kind of processor, under a separate operating system with a very different user interface. Can I get a free copy of (or discount on) the macOS version? I already bought your iOS version of SkySafari for my iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. But it needs to be the same iTunes account as on the computer where you first bought the software! If you bought SkySafari, SkySafari Plus or SkySafari Pro from the Mac App Store, you should be able to download it again onto any other Mac computer that is authorized for your iTunes account, free of charge. Can I run SkySafari for macOS on more than one Mac? I have more than one Mac computer (or I bought a new Mac).
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This page contains answers to the most frequently asked questions about SkySafari for macOS. SkySafari for macOS Frequently Asked Questions