SkyPlanner Support

Click on the retical either in the logo of the home page or at the top of the settings page. From the locations page, click Add Location. Choose the type of location (current GPS, city/country, list of remote observatories, or manual lat/long. Give the location a name, and adust the uniform horizon if desired. Click save.

Select a location from the locations page. Scroll t the bottom and selects Add/Update Custom Horizon. Check to see if the zenith (directly overhead) is open or obstructed and click the appropriate button. Place the center crosshairs at the top of the tree/building line in any direction, and click the shutter buttom to drop the first point. Rotate the phone around the tree line or other obstructions, clicking the shutter button every 10-20 degrees. When you get near the starting position, click complete.

On the Best of the Night Page, New to You page, or any object detail page, simply click on the date to change it to another date. Click Tonight to return to the current night.

From any object detail page, click Add to Sky Planner. The app will select a good range by default. Drag the green start and red end line to djust the range. Note that frequently the red (end) line may be to the left of the green (start) line. This is because the end time is in the next year. You can click the boxes to include the same range in future years, and you can click to place a strikethrough of the object for the remainder of the season once you are done shooting it for the year.

From the search page, click the yellow (+) button. On the resulting page, fill in the object name and/or number, RA/Dec, and object type. Other details, if known, will improve ranking listing of the object. A custom image can be added to any custom object (Sky Planner Pro is NOT required to add a picture to a custom created object).

This feature requires Sky Planner Pro. Subscribers can simply click on an object photo on any object detail page and select any photo from their photos app. The object photo can be reverted to the default at any time.

Catalogs sometimes disagree on object sizes, brightness, and sometimes even exact position of large objects (eg., the center of a nebula). That said, if you spot what you believe to be a serious error, you can email us at errors@optickstudios.com.