FinderCam with Plate Solving 4+
Point telescope accurately!
yong chong loh
Designed for iPad
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- 1,99 €
Screenshots
Description
M31 is located using FinderCam and shot by Daniel Mendell
This app is used for finding objects in the night sky with a telescope, binoculars and the naked eye. The latest demo video was recorded on March 19, 2023 at https://youtu.be/md9LDchUuzU. In this video, I use FinderCam to find some bright stars and M42 Orion Nebula instantly. It shows the plate solving alignments that lead the user accurately to the target.
How does it works?
1. Open the app and point your device camera at the night sky.
2. Tap Solve button in the app.
3. It will identify 3 stars in the camera image.
Working Conditions:
1. Works in city with blocked sky view.
2. Works with partial cloudy sky.
3. Works during full or new moon.
4. Works with city light pollution.
Advance use with telescope:
1. You will need a suitable holder to fix your phone to your telescope or binoculars for alignment.
2. The app contains a star map and large catalogs of celestial objects. The star map will automatically adjust to your location and time.
3. The view through the scope or bino can be aligned with the star map.
4. Tapping the Solve button displays 3 star names for plate-solving alignment giving their az-alt positions.
5. After alignment, other objects can be searched and their location is shown by a green guiding line for moving the scope.
Benefits:
- More stars than with the naked eye can be seen. It uses image processing to make more stars visible.
- It saves you many frustrating hours finding your deep sky objects.
- Attach your phone to your telescope or binocs and it can lead you to 110 Messier deep sky objects accurately, as well as to planets and bright stars,
- It works in heavily light polluted cities and partial cloudy night.
Requirements:
- For most telescopes, you need a basic phone holder or home-made holder with 45 degree mirror. If you are using a binocular, you will need a L mount.
- You may need a mount with slow motion control like a Dobsonian telescope or slow motion tripod. The app requires you to move a crosshair to the target.
- Requires iOS 14 and above.
Tips:
- Draw a user defined area for solving by tap hold the screen and drag to draw a rectangle. Tap hold and release to remove the user define rectangle.
What’s New
Version 3.97
- Fix some bugs.
Ratings and Reviews
Video Looks Great, but some problems
Dear Developer, your Video is really impressive!!! Great work, respect!! Unfortunately I only see diagonal stripes as picture on my phone. My iPhone : 13pro, iOS 16.3.1
Do you think you can fix it? Would be Great!
Br Axel
Developer Response ,
Hi thanks for writing to me. Can you send a screenshot of the probpem to my gmail ustransit74@gmail.com. I will look at the cause and provide you an app update. Which video do you refer too so that I can make more of the same type. It is important that you get in contact with me so that the problem can be identified and solved. Thank you very much.
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Information
- Provider
- yong chong loh has not identified itself as a trader for this app. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, consumer rights do not apply to agreements between you and the provider.
- Size
- 3.2 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020
- Price
- 1,99 €
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.