Smart Telescope Planner
Richard Derry Reference iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Smart Telescope Planner is a free Reference app for iPhone and iPad by Richard Derry. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 27, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 72 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 27
- 2026 · v23.0
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About Smart Telescope Planner
BigSky Planner helps smart telescope users prepare an observing night before they head outside. Save your observing sites, set up your smart telescope, filter a bundled target catalog, and build a timed plan for the night. Target cards show magnitude, object type, first view time, time in view, azimuth and altitude. Details adds capture guidance for your default telescope, with Min, Opt and Best integration times and filter-aware notes. Key features - Save and reuse observing sites, and mark a default - Smart telescope profiles with altitude, timing and Equatorial Mode limits for each model - Filter targets by catalog, magnitude, object type, altitude and azimuth, with exact catalog-number search - Planets, the Moon and comets - One target card per object, with its common name - Build Plan places every selected target across its Clear Sky, so the times overlap. Balance Plan and Use Priority set the time shares - An alert when a capture is shorter than 30 minutes, with a longer seat or a replacement to choose from - Weather from NOAA in the United States and MET Norway elsewhere, with no account or key. Open-Meteo works with your own key. - Save, reopen, print and share plans - Back up on iPhone or iPad and restore on a Mac or Windows PC, or the other way around - Text follows your iPhone or iPad text size - Light and dark appearance, an illustrated Help guide and a full PDF manual Free download with a 20-day free trial BigSky Planner is free to download and includes a free 20-day trial. After the trial, Full Access is a one-time in-app purchase: no subscription and no automatic charge. Your saved sites and plans are kept. If you bought the app before it became free, you keep Full Access with no additional purchase. Purchase questions: [email protected]. Your data stays on your device. No account is required.
What’s new
Version 23.0 · Updated October 27, 2026
Version 23.0 - Build Plan places every selected target across its Clear Sky, so the scheduled times overlap. - Balance Plan and Use Priority set how that time is shared. - A short capture still offers a longer seat or a replacement. - The illustrated manual and Quick Help match this build.
App privacy
The developer, Richard Derry, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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