Planetarium software
Posted on December 12, 2006 in Palm and Software. - No comments
One of the reasons I decided on an ETX-90 was because of it’s size and portability. As I don’t have the luxury of an observatory or anywhere I can leave the telescope set up I needed something a little more practical. Equally important was the portability and time and effort required to set it up.
Next, I was looking for some good planetarium software however the thing that bothered me was that having the laptop was going to mean another bag to carry and something else to set up.
After a little bit of searching I found Palm Planetarium. This seemed to be a good compromise and seemed to do everything I was looking for as an amature astronomer!
The only shame is that my Palm Tungsten/E doesn’t have a serial port so I can’t connect it directly to the scope, but I can use the Autostar handbox for that.
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