Having been a fly on the wall during this entire thread, ending up rofl - you know who you are. However, any app that "shows" six stars should be challenged. There are three visible stars Mizar, Alcor and the companion. Each of the three stars are spectroscopic binaries. Yes. there are six there, but no matter how much magnification you use, you will only see three stars. It's a good example at a public star party - you have an optical double, a true binary and unseen spectroscopic binaries. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Ratkowski" <ratkwski@gmail.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 8:55:18 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Mizar (solved) A friend of mine w/ the pro version says it shows all 6 stars. The plus version shows the companion at .5" but nothing else. This is the 1st flaw I've inSS, otherwise it has been a fantastic app. It was a question I presented to SLAS about the best astro app for an iPad, it was a real eye opener to have such a great database ( better than any/ all of the star charts I have). I'll see Cindy's pro version Friday night, I'll let you know how it goes Aloha Rob Sent from Rob's iPad
On Apr 22, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Joel Stucki <joel.stucki@gmail.com> wrote:
I just tried that as well and also got a not found, however "Mizar" does return results along with the article on Mizar and Alcor that has a lot of cool data. The computer geek in me thinks that the pro version will not have different search results, only a larger database. I would be interested in hearing if it does. I agree that is a poor search algorithm to not return any results like that when they are in fact labeled Mizar A and Mizar B on the chart.
On Wednesday, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Rob Ratkowski <ratkwski@gmail.com>, wrote: Joel
I 'searched' Mizar B and got a NOT FOUND, I'm upgrading to Pro. I can't get spoofed like that again. But one thing I did find is that there are folks willing to help a guy out in Hawaii. Mahalo!!
Aloha Rob
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