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Astronomical Constellations App?
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GoSkywatch Planetarium for iPad gets me around the sky quite nicely.
You point your iPad at a hunk of sky, and the App tells you what you're looking at; or you can switch off the magnetometer and use the map as a conventional atlas.
The star atlas doesn't go much beyond magnitude 6, if that, but there's a decent collection of deep sky objects, nebula, clusters, galaxies, included.
The App'll also tell you which constellation is currently directly under your feet.
You point your iPad at a hunk of sky, and the App tells you what you're looking at; or you can switch off the magnetometer and use the map as a conventional atlas.
The star atlas doesn't go much beyond magnitude 6, if that, but there's a decent collection of deep sky objects, nebula, clusters, galaxies, included.
The App'll also tell you which constellation is currently directly under your feet.
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I think you need to quantify what you mean by "most professional". Some of the more expensive apps are capable of sending coordinate data to position a telescope. This feature is probably very useful to amature astronomers who have access to the required equipment but would be overkill for stargazing. I have Distant Suns 3, which is @ $10 and the NASA app which is free, both of which I'd recommend for stargazing with the unaided eye
I think you need to quantify what you mean by "most professional". Some of the more expensive apps are capable of sending coordinate data to position a telescope. This feature is probably very useful to amature astronomers who have access to the required equipment but would be overkill for stargazing. I have Distant Suns 3, which is @ $10 and the NASA app which is free, both of which I'd recommend for stargazing with the unaided eye