Fantastic weekly sky events app, with minor flaws – S&T SkyWeek Review

I love checking this app every now and then to see what's "up." There are usually several events listed, from purely naked eye to occasional small telescope challenges. But the real gem is the sky chart that opens when you tap an event. Yes, it shows you the selected event at your location. But you can go backwards and forwards in time (in any step from seconds, minutes, hours, etc) - great for occultations! But it gets better: pinch and zoom can take you from the whole sky to maybe 5 arcsec or less! Again, great for timing occultations, and also for seeing planet discs. Lots of Messier and other common objects are marked and appear if you zoom sufficiently (but most are not graphically displayed - this isn't Celestia). So what's missing? My biggest gripe is that the week's events are followed by a text description of the planets, but I would really like a link to the planet in the sky chart, especially when hunting for Uranus and Neptune. I'd also like to see major moons. Once I saw it depict Galilean shadows on Jupiter but not the actual moons. I'm not sure if the shadows are a regular thing or just s special event. Last, the weekly list updates all at once, on Sunday I believe. I would love to see more upcoming events, as I have missed some I'd have liked to see because I did not check in time. I know the paid version lets you add events to your calendar, but this must be done manually.
Review by Vasska on S&T SkyWeek.

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