Planisphere Positive Reviews

Planisphere App User Positive Comments 2024

Planisphere app received 17 positive comments and reviews by users. Can you share your positive thoughts about planisphere?

Planisphere for Positive User Reviews

✓ Just what i've been looking forI know nothing about astronomy but this little app lets you look up and begin to recognise stars and planets. Last night I looked up and saw Mars!!! I'd never have known it was mars without this app. How brilliant is that for 59p!!!!!!!!!!.BuspassVersion: 0

✓ Great app!This is a great app to play around with! Works great! I just wish I could choose a specific date to view directly instead of going hour by hour into the future or past. Other than that minor issue, I love it!.D10067Version: 2.1.2

✓ PlanisphereSplendid.MangipooVersion: 0

✓ It worksIt's works, not a super awesome app, but for 99cents it's good. If you have an astronomy class it comes in handy or if you just like to know what's above you..Fank the TankVersion: 2.0.6

✓ Nicely implementedVery well designed app - good functionality yet straightfoward to use. Particularly like the fact that it offers both a planisphere/whole sky view and a directional/part-sky view. Surprisingly, a number of more expensive apps don't. Would like to see option to toggle on and off constellation boundaries, adjust the minimum star magnitude and show planet labels on the unzoomed planisphere view. Highly recommended!.RviewsVersion: 0

✓ A winnerDoes what it says. Lot's of layering options including deep sky objects so you can focus on what you want and leave out the other stuff. Very reasonable price. Nightlight. Nice job. I recommend it. Made for someone that will use it in the field..AmpullaeVersion: 2.0.4

✓ A Brilliant Astronomy App!A great deal of effort has obviously gone into the design and presentation of this astronomy app which clearly shows all 88 constellations. I really like the GPS and 'Night Light' features. Ideal for all budding astronomers and comes highly recommended..DnsoloVersion: 0

✓ Worth itTotally awesome :D nice features.XBlitzwingVersion: 2.1.0

✓ AwesomeThis is just unbelievable. I thought I knew some constellations but this is just tremendous. Was a bit reluctant to pay the 59p but I can assure it is well worth it..DanBoyFRCSVersion: 0

✓ Well conceived, expertly codedThis app has five-star underpinnings, the kind you'd expect from a developer whose Moon Map is coded as a fully rotateable, zoomable, rendered sphere, rather than just a bunch of photographs. With so much information presented with such clarity and ease of use at such a low price, this new entry is poised to become a favorite. Experienced astronomers will want it as a comprehensive quick reference, and beginners will be well rewarded with a fine download worth well more than its $0.99. This first release feels perfected like a third or fourth update, especially with its simple, efficient operation. Even so, for its fifth star, I'd like to see more flexible hiding of objects not of current interest, to render the display easier to read: dim stars, constellation boundries, and the like. I'd also appreciate if the delicate images were beefed up for forty-year-old eyes. Such a fine astronomy app at this price point could tip the curious into becoming ametuer astronomers. Support this developer. He deserves it. <><><><><> A Note to Dave Moore of South Boston: Serious planetaria (star charting apps) do not list Earth because they look outward; they list other objects one can see from Earth at a given time. Orreries (apps showing the relative motions of the planets) do show Earth, because they look inward, as though from outside the solar system, with Earth just another object to be studied. A few planeteria list the Earth as "always visible," a corny joke that can confuse beginners, an important clientele that deserves more respect. It sounds sarchastic, but is not: It's understood that if you want to see the stars and Messier objects, look up using Planisphere as a guide, but if you want to see the Earth, look down at your feet..BozocityVersion: 0

✓ BrilliantExcellent app. Does exactly what I was hoping for. Uses the gps and compass to tell me what I am looking at. Also an absolute bargain. Highly recommended..TheshuntaVersion: 0

✓ This is great fun!I play around with this with my grand kids. It teaches them while having fun. Great app.Nateo2Version: 2.1.2

✓ .Excellent - great value for money!.1slothVersion: 0

✓ Excellent Digital Planisphere With One Glaring Hitch:YOU have to update the time manually by going into the settings. The graphics, zoom function, and other features are first rate for a no-cost download. It sure beats carrying around one of the plastic plansipheres! But back to the major issue I have with this app. Step 1: Set your Location Step 2: Set current/use device time Step 3: Exit to the planisphere(main) window. Suppose it's 8:00AM in Chicago on August 23rd. The planisphere displays accordingly. But now you want to see the sky in the Philippines - where you know its after dark. So you look up "Manila" in the location list, select it, and exit back out to the planisphere. Instead of a dark sky correctly showing what is overhead for the Philippines at 8PM - you see what 8:00AM would look like from that country! What the . . .?! Budapest Hungary: Same thing - except at 8AM there the sun(and the ecliptic) are much lower in the sky than in Manila. BUT - don't forget - while you were looking at the sky you pulled up at 8AM the time has become 8:06! Oops, gotta go back into the Settings and touch Time Now again! And now you can see what the sky looks like at 8:06AM in Paris, Rio De Janeiro, Tokyo, or anywhere your heart desires. Come on!! So basically this is just like the plastic plansiphere you may have had in school or seen in a nature shop - plastic horizon simulating your latitude, with disk below with all the stars and coordinates on it - that you have to set yourself! Otherwise, I'd give it five stars..Bumbling iTouch UserVersion: 2.0.3

✓ Planisphere!Very happy with this program; it does exactly what I want without a lot of unnecessary bells and whistles!.Dave BeardVersion: 0

✓ Super value and functionalityI found planisphere searching thru the astro apps and, despite a lack of ratings took the plunge for 59p. Very glad I did. It's brilliant and much more than the 'first astronomy app' I was expecting. The nightlight feature is very usef though if you flick to settings they are the iPhone default and rather blinding. Another minor jiggle is a lack of distance from earth for objects - but maybe this is not in the database? Navigating the planisphere is very simple and intuitive and double clicking an object brings up an info panel. The search feature works very well and the constellations and labelling is very nice too. As a fellow app developer I appreciate the time and effort that must have gone into this app and I sincerely wish the developer well with it. Hopefully another review might give it the prominence it deserves over many of the more expensive competitors. Cheers..MugievoVersion: 0

✓ Value for moneyFor what's in the package 59p is a steal. the information provided is amazing almost overload if I could I would give it six stars still not as good as distant suns 2.AfroliteVersion: 0