Astrospheric Negative Reviews

Astrospheric App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Astrospheric app received 6 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Astrospheric? Can you share your negative thoughts about astrospheric?

Astrospheric for Negative User Reviews

✓ Zero prediction reliability - don’t waste timeBeen trying to use this for years but it has a perfect zero reliability in Predicting cloud cover in the northeast. If I could give it a zero I would. I’ve put in Reports of the issue but what does the app developer do, nothing but think you should now pay for the worst forecasting imaginable!! Do t waste your time or money..VtTerriVersion: 8.0.1

✓ I really wanted to love this app, but...Extremely well-put together and very visually-pleasing. Seems to have everything an astrophotographer could want. There’s only one problem: the forecast for my area has been consistently inaccurate for the last few weeks. Worse yet, it’s been inaccurate in that every time it has promised clear skies, none have appeared. I suppose I could give it credit for always getting its forecast for clouds correct though. It seems to me that the problem lies in the forecast mode upon which the app relies (CMC-RDPS). It’s just not accurate for Southern Ontario winters, which is very prone to “lake effect” clouds. Could it be that the people responsible for this model didn’t account for lake effect? From what I’ve experienced over the past few months, the model that has consistently predicted the weather here (or, more particularly, cloud cover) has been the NAM model. That’s a shame because it predicts a lot more clouds than do the others - but that seems preferable to getting one’s hopes up for nothing time and again. It takes me an hour to set up and an hour to disassemble my kit. Then there’s the time wasted checking repeatedly to see whether the promised clearing has occurred. All tolled, I’ve wasted about fifteen hours over the last few weeks, hoping that Astrospheric’s far more favourable forecast was true - but it never was. I wonder if the developer could incorporate NAM model data into the app?.GriweiVersion: 6.3.4

✓ Good big picture app, but don’t like some things about it.This is a pretty good app that gives you the big picture for planning astronomical viewing, however I do not like one aspect of it. The app opens with a location that is automatically selected near your current location, but it is off enough that you need to change it to your location by using a map or the forecasts might not be accurate. It does not remember your location when you start the app again and you must again manually select the correct location from a map. It then will tell you that you can save the location, but only if you provide them with your email address which is their way of compelling one to do that and enable the “favorites” to be available. I think that we should not have to provide our email address to set the home location and sort of sounds like blackmail to me..Airwings7Version: 5.0.0

✓ Not Accurate for Forecasts or Current ConditionsI like the user interface of this app, and of course it provides a lot of information that could be useful to astronomers. But I’m surprised that it gets such good ratings from astronomers. On most occasions, the forecast has simply been wrong. It seems to also be wrong in real time — for example, it’ll be 100% cloudy outside but this app will show a blue box and report 0% cloud cover at that time. My GPS location is correct, but it just keeps reporting conditions that are not correct. As a result, I don’t find it useful for predicting stargazing conditions. The app itself is laid out nicely though, so if they could improve their weather source I think this would actually be a great app..Nine-hole ShooterVersion: 8.0.1

✓ Seldom rightCloud forecast is more wrong than right. I'm done with this app..:Gazoo:Version: 5.0.0

✓ AstrophericI love this app, but the cloud motion aspect is terrible sometimes even with a good cell signal. For example, I can watch a Netflix movie on my cell phone right this moment, but the animation part of Astrospheric won't work. This is unacceptable for those of is that take our astrophotography to remote dark sights. This aspect really needs to improve..PEdwardMVersion: 8.0.0

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