iCSC: Clear Sky Chart Viewer Reviews

Excellent location conditions resource

Qborg1

This app gives you timely information about sky conditions for night sky observations across the United States. That said, not all observatory names tell you about their location. This is never a problem if you only plan to frequent ones that are near you and few in number, however, if you’d like to travel and plan out night sky observations along your trips the location (geographic) information is not contained in the name of each observatory. It’s kind of like someone only telling you the name of the street or city they live in. If their are multiple locations that have that street or city name, the usefulness of that information is quickly diminished. Adding GPS coordinates might help, but so would a road, city and state. If not that, then allow for notes in the favorites list on each entry so you would not need to enter the site report and then look to find it on the map. A very useful add to the app would be to make use of location information provided by cell and ip to see a list of reporting observatory’s nearby.

Amazing app for astrophotography

ktownguy83

Perfect lightweight app to check sky conditions for astrophotography!

Search function

brianfulda

Great app, but there’s no search function? It would be so easy to implement a simple search feature at the top of the full list of observing sites. Please implement this in the next update!

Essential Short Term Planning Tool

TeryG

A no brainer. Get this!

Great resource to maximize and optimize your star-gazing

wells christopher

I’ve got a handful of local spots saved as favorites so I can quickly check sky conditions, so I know when star gazing will be awesome vs so-so vs “stay inside”. Really great resource for anyone who likes to view the stars, with or without a telescope.