SkySafari 6 Pro

Best app ever for astro lovers. But I am somewhat disappointed that I can’t get the app working on my watch 5 ? It keeps on showing black screen! I would be grateful for hints !?

When Skysafri 6 pro will support one device as it should work well with Syncscan and Skywatcher AZ GTi Wifi mount? I really need that support. Thanks

So far my experience with SS 6 Pro is disappointing. The data transfer like Observinglists and Equipment is unreliable and very error prone. Worst of all you have to do this manually and at least for me the instructions didn't work. Support goes via the community, but that is completely useless during the weekends. Sync via iCloud is no longer available. SS 6 seems to be written by- and for software nerds, not for the regular amateur astronomer. Very disappointing and likely my last SS purchase. Certainly I will not upgrade SS 5 on my iMac.

Very nice graphics. But I noticed that de coordinates for comets are wrong! Hope they will fix it.

Always cool, those new features, like “interactive h-r diagram”. Thank goodness there’s no way to find out where it is, how to find it, or a help lemma in the help file or website to explain it. Well hidden gems. Always a delight.
But then again, at least there’s no search function in the help file, but thar’s a feature, of course.
So: “we added an in-app purchase”. No, no, no, that would be helpful.

I have used Skysafari 5 Pro for several years now, mainly for asteroidal occultation observations.
Finding the (often very faint) star was done by star hopping via a CCD camera at the telescope, connected to a laptop, with GOTO scope control via SkyFi.
Star hopping with synchronizing is essential, especially when the alignment is bad due to often little alignment time.
Selecting the right telescope (i.e. focal length) and camera chip size yielded a nice rectangle in Skysafari’s star field. Alternatively hopping and synchronizing a few stars in Skysafari gave the wanted star in the center.
Without the rectangle the process is much more difficult, especially for very faint stars in a faint star field. The rectangle helps enormously: the rectangle field on the laptop being exactly the same as in Skysafari 5 Pro. Moreover, as the observation times (from predictions) are frequently awkward, observing is often carried out during a battle against sleep.
I was therefore quite dumbfounded when I installed Skysafari 6 Pro (with UCAC5 stars), finding no possibility to insert my own equipment. It was so easy and wonderful in Skysafari 5 Pro, and now it is absent! At least I cannot find it.
Hopefully the own telescopes, eyepieces, camera chip sizes and telrad choices can be added soon in an upgrade.
The UCAC5 catalogue is almost a must for occultation observers. That’s why I bought Skysafari 6 Pro. Now I must continue with Skysafari 5 Pro. Pity!