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Visibility Info-pictures for objects

Hey I love this app, and I have a suggestion. I've noticed a couple other apps do something similar to this. It allows me to take one QUICK look and know which parts of the year will be the best viewing conditions for an object, as well as the best time of day. I'll post some screenshots below. These are just examples. Anything like this would be awesome, thanks.

DAY VISIBILITY BAR: represents the visibility of an object during 24 hours centered on midnight and gives you a hint at what time of the night the object can be best observed. The background color indicates when its day (light blue) or night (black). The yellow/red bar is colored according to the altitude of the object.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/N5qPNVr.png

YEAR VISIBILITY BAR: visibility of an object during the complete current year. The months are indicated. Black: not observable. Red: observable but low in the sky. Yellow: very good observability. The visibility is calculated by checking throughout the year, if an object reaches a certain altitude in the sky during night. For objects with variable brightness (like planets), their magnitude is indicated as a white line, and the apparent diameter as blue line.

Examples:

http://i.imgur.com/ZCh7GWv.png

http://i.imgur.com/P3QyOyf.png

http://i.imgur.com/eJ0SMpu.png (Mercury's visibility is highly variable)

 

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    Bill Tschumy

    We considered this when we planned the feature set for SkySafari 5.  We opted to go with "Tonight" instead.  Maybe for SkySafari 6.

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