I am here today to talk about, and try to briefly describe the duties of a planetarium program for Palm: Planetarium, which I started using just recently and I found very useful , with the help of the many functions offered, and the ability to customize it in various ways and for different uses. Planetarium is available for PDAs, but you can run it on Windows Mobile handhelds and smartphones through an emulator application for PDA operating systems of this type: StyleTap.
certainly see a planetarium on a handheld from the small screen may have different disadvantages, but in my humble opinion, the advantages are several.
First, being able to eliminate at once the star maps, sheets for notes and other things that slow down in some way the night vision of heaven. But let's see briefly what are the main features of the program, just started first thing, of course you have to enter data for your location of observation, you can enter a number for all uses! Without this you just need to start using it, with a view available in two versions: the first is a screen on the compass, which shows the objects in azimuth and in height, the second is the normal vision of the night sky from your location. The various items are grouped (and selected) through the pull-down menu above, and once you select appears on the screen surrounded by circles of Telrad (useful function in my opinion).
If you need to update or you can of course Replaces the database objects, asteroids, comets, etc., etc., directly from the manufacturer's website, where you can download different types of databases and file extensions (such as plug-ins to check for new motorized telescopes through this program.) If you want to at this point you can press the icon with the "i" to get detailed information on the object that you have framed, while pressing the icon of the field of view, you can increase or decrease zoom to suit your needs. While pressing the clock icon, you can see the sky will look like in the future, is used to schedule future observational outputs (you can do the same thing with the moon phases for example, through the display mode socket) . One last interesting feature is the diary of observations incorporated Planetarium, accessible through the dedicated icon, where you can quickly write down an object just observed, then transfer everything when you are home more comfortable!
The program can be downloaded from "http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets/" in the demo version, if you like you buy it ... otherwise you can continue to use the demo ... that never expires and has no limitations! The only trouble is that you keep the warning that appears every now and remind you that you are using the demo version.
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