BigSkyAstro apps

Astronomy Observation Planner

For sale · macOS and iOS · version 23.0 (114) · Windows version not on the Store yet

Plan a night with your smart telescope: saved observing sites, your telescope and accessories, target filters, planets and the Moon, and a timed plan in which each target starts when the one before it ends.

Supported smart telescopes: Celestron Origin Mark II; DWARFLAB DWARF 3, DWARF II, DWARF mini and Draco; Unistellar eVscope, eVscope 2, eQuinox, eQuinox 2, Odyssey and Odyssey Pro; Vaonis Stellina, Hyperia, Vespera, Vespera II, Vespera II X Edition, Vespera 3, Vespera Pro and Vespera Pro 2; ZWO Seestar S30, S30 Pro, S50 and S50 Pro. Also works with any alt-az mount that calculates its own location.

New telescopes: DWARF Draco and Seestar S50 Pro are in the telescope list in version 23.0 (114) on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. On Windows they are supported now and join the telescope list in the next update.

On the App Store: version 23.0 (114) for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Free to download with a 20-day free trial. Full Access is a one-time purchase: $9.99 on iPhone and iPad, $12.99 on Mac (US prices). Mac 23.0 is Apple silicon only. If you bought it, you keep Full Access.

Windows: Smart Telescope Planner for Windows is not on the Microsoft Store yet.

Weather Magic PWS

Mac · iPhone and iPad

Monitor your station weather on iPhone, iPad or Mac. Free has no time limit and includes station readings and the Today graph. Pro is a one-time unlock for extended graphs, exports, more stations and providers, widgets and more.

Version 3.1 is on the App Store for Mac, iPhone and iPad. It adds your own Turso or Supabase cloud database and collection every minute with automatic takeover by another computer.

Weather Wizard for Windows

Windows 11 · Microsoft Store

Weather Wizard is now live on the Microsoft Store. The picture is the main panel with a demo station, not a real location.

Telescope Data Sort

Mac 1.2.1 · Windows 1.2.1.0 · Free and open source

Free, open-source app, formerly Smart Telescope Sort. Detects your capture folder layout, then copies, checks and organizes TIFF, FITS and JPG into Targets by year and object. Each copy is checked byte for byte before any original is deleted. It also sorts data from any telescope or camera when the files are in folders named for the object. Not affiliated with telescope manufacturers.

Open source: github.com/rderry/Smart-Telescope-Sort. If you change it and give it away, please give credit to BigSkyAstro: include the BigSkyAstro logo and a link to bigskyastro.com.