Of course, this isn't anything you couldn't get from looking stuff up on the internet, but there's a lot of easy osmosis to learning-while-looking. Reading through the instructions in TLO, you will pick up more star names and some fun details about the objects/regions. It earns its status as the gold standard, even in the age of the smartphone.Īdditional edit: I forgot to mention, I also find that using Stellarium to find an object teaches me less, both about that object and all of the stars and the like I follow to get to it.
In short, do you need Turn Left at Orion? No, but I 100% recommend getting it. I use post-its or other colourful bookmarks to let me mark and make notes about previous observing sessions. Lastly I would add that I love having TLO for easy reference on return favourite objects, too. I can go to TLO's seasonal skies section and very quickly get an idea of the available options.įor hard to find objects, the finderscope view is also extremely useful- assuming you have a finderscope! For some objects, TLO will even walk you through each starhop in turn, showing you what to expect in your finderscope for each movement. I find this especially useful if I haven't had time to extensively pregame. So those are some limitations for Stellarium in the field, how does Turn Left at Orion help that? One, it has a pretty robust catalogue of objects and it does a lot of the work for you by breaking them down not just by type, like planetary nebula or open cluster, but by season- and rating it for difficulty depending on your type of optics. Again, this isn't too much of a problem for large, popular objects with great landmarks to guide you, but depending on your viewing location there may be dozens, hundreds, or thousands of small or faint objects to find, and many of them don't have very helpful landmarks. It marks a point that, even if you are able to make a fair effort at aiming at in the sky, covers a very large field of view. For large, easily findable objects, Stellarium and the like work quite well, but for more challenging targets I find the little target on my screen to be not nearly enough guidance. Two, phones are small and the universe is vast beyond all imagining. It has a few disadvantages in terms of actual use- one, watch out for your night vision! Dim/red light mode will certainly help, but remember that even a brief lapse- like upon opening the app and before engaging the filter, can set your night vision back a surprising amount.
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Oh where to begin! First of all, no hate for Stellarium here, that's a quality program/app and I use it all the time, especially on my PC before going out and observing, to sort of pregame my observing sessions.
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