Observer Pro
$13.99
rated 4.6 stars
About Observer Pro
What astronomers are saying:
"Every astronomer with an iPhone should own this app!"
- Astronomy Technology Today magazine
"Observer Pro is the most impressive astronomy app that I have tried out. I enthusiastically commend it to you!"
- Tom Mote, Professor Emeritus, Astronomy
"I have been using it since the day it first became available and I cannot live without it now."
- Sedat B., Cloudy Nights forum
Feature highlights:
• Over 14,000 deep sky objects included, all with closeup reference photos. No need to download anything after install! Sorting and search make it easy to sift through all of them to find which objects belong on your observing list.
• Measure your local horizon profile in minutes with your iPhone.
• Unique charts completely take the guesswork out of predicting object visibility. Your house, trees, mountains, or any other obstructions are completely factored in to all visibility charts.
• New to astronomy? The Featured object list shows a list of objects specific to your location and local horizon that are great for observing right now.
• Keep a list of your favorite observing sites, each with their own local horizon profile. Compare object visibility between sites to find the best spot to setup your scope.
• There's a lot to observe! Observer Pro gives you a place to maintain a list of your favorite objects as well as an observing list that you can take with you to the eyepiece.
• 7Timer! astronomical weather forecasts for your observing sites are viewable without leaving Observer Pro. They give you the outlook on cloud cover, seeing, transparency, and more.
• Check out the in-app help to learn more about how to use the many features that come with Observer Pro.
Keep up-to-date with the latest news at the Observer Pro blog:
http://observer.pro/blog
Observer Pro Screenshots
Reviews for Observer Pro
Bfisher39
Great App
Thank you so much for fixing the sort functions.. This is absolutely my favorite planning app.
SalemSouth
Looks good, but lost my observer list
I liked the look of this, and I was interested in the custom horizon capability, so I drew my boundary and made an observer list of things that would be visible tonight from my backyard. However, when I came back this evening to look, the observer list was gone. Losing data is hard to excuse (I’m a retired programmer). Additionally, I imagined there would be a way to export the list so that I could load it in Sky Safari and use it to drive my scope, but I don’t see that. Kevin
Lollynjake
Crashing app
Updated to the recent release, but the app crashes every time I select any of the groupings (Galaxy, Planetary Nebulae, Galactic Nebulae, etc.) in the catalogs part of the program.
tdjh2
Search seems to have disappeared?
Currrent version seems to be missing search - one of the best features of a good app?? Use to be able to search for any object simply by entering numbers - even across the various catalogs. Sure some of the filtering and sorting will get you there…but FAR less quickly and conveniently. Is search really gone for good?
Bomb #20
Awesome observing app, easy to set horizons
This is the observing app I’ve been looking for. I am surrounded by woods, with only a few observing windows widely spaced around my property in various directions. I also have an observation site a couple blocks away on the edge of a lake. This app is perfect for comparing the different sites and deciding which is best, and how long I have on target for astrophotography. Also, the method for tracing the horizon at each site couldn’t be simpler. I only had to spend 15 minutes in freezing weather to measure the horizon at six sites around the yard. This latest release is very welcome, fixing a bug with the onscreen keyboard. The iPad experience is still a little suboptimal, but that’s a minor quibble considering how useful this app is. Edit- I increased the rating to 4 stars with this latest release (v.1.4). If a native iPad version is released, this would be a 5-star app. One last note to those thinking about whether the app is worth $14- considering what you probably spent on your astronomy or astrophotography setup, this cost is a drop in the bucket and it will save you much time and irritation over using other apps that don’t really come close in functionality. However, the developer hasn’t updated this app in 3 years, and it has a bug, so don’t expect curb service for your $14.
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