I am very happy to use your SkySafari 6 pro program. It's the best astronomy program I know.
But I really miss an ad:
It would be interesting for me - and certainly for other users too - to know in which month I can best observe an object in the sky at my location.
Unfortunately, I only find this feature in the StarmapHD program.
Can't you also build this on SkySafari? It would be great!
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Chris This is a very interesting feature request. At a high level, I've often times been planning and had to spend some time trying to figure out when to best observe certain objects. I've even divided some of my observing lists into seasons to make it easier, so I think you're onto something here. I am curious though what this looks like in practice. Would you want to know the months in which an object transits between astro dusk and dawn? What constitutes the 'best' time to observe an object at a given site? For my site, where there's lots of light pollution to the Southwest, I try to plan objects when they're either very high or high enough and still somewhat to the East or Northeast, and usually between 10pm and 2am, the times I'm most likely to observe. While that would be awesome to be able to plug those variables in with my list of objects and have the might mapped out for me automatically, I'm not sure how feasible that would be. It sure would be great to say okay, here's 100 objects I want to observe, tonight is August 19, which ones are highest or not Southwest between the hours of 10-11, 11-12, 12-1 and 1-2. Then based on whatever time I'm picking my next object, I know all the best ones. Interested to hear Bill's thoughts.
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Bill Tschumy Ej,
Could you please explain how this feature is implemented in StarMapHD? I have many of the same questions a Chris about how this should be implemented.
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Ej Stracke Search an object and look for infos. Under a photo you will see a field blue left and right. Scroll it left you will see the best time for this day. Scroll it left again you will see the best month for observing. This is what I mean.
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Bill Tschumy What is the criteria for the best month?
I can add this to our list of features to consider.
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Ej Stracke I think it should be the month with the highest transit.
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Bill Tschumy At what time of night? Midnight?
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Ej Stracke Midnight is a good time.
Better: a simple grafic with the altitude at midnight for every month like this hardcopy from StarMapHD:
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