Features & Capabilities

AstroAid is an app for amateur astronomers that functions as an aid to visualizing what you will see through your telescope/camera lens when you use a particular eyepiece and, optionally, an optical aid (such as a Barlow lens). You can also pair a camera/imager with a telescope and determine what your camera/imager will see in its frame. This will be a big help for astro-imagers.

The app computes a number of parameters for your telescope/eyepiece/imager combination, such as magnification, actual field of view, visual magnitude limit, etc. and displays these values in tabular form.

Several astronomical catalogues are built in to the app (including Messier, NGC, IC, and many other object catalogues), and will be updated on-line occasionally. Images for these objects can be downloaded. All catalogues can be searched.

The app contains extensive lists of known vendor-supplied telescopes, camera lenses, eyepieces, imagers, and optical aids. You can also create your own custom entries if your equipment isn't listed (for example, if you made your own telescope). These custom entries are shared between your devices via iCloud (if available).

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
iLanga, Inc.
Rating:
4.30
(44)
Version:
3.5.1 Last updated: 2018-01-16
Version code:
841415431
Creation date:
2012-07-14
Compatible devices:
Size:
124.62MB
Price:
2.99
Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-07
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Developed by:
iLanga, Inc.
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/astroaid/id541448395

User Reviews

App doesn’t open at all. Was very excited to ise this but not good
by Vi*****, 2022-12-31

This could be a perfect app for planning astrophotography, but the images it uses are far too small to be of much help with any low magnification telescope setup. Full frame image circle scopes like the Takahashi FSQ, or a William Optics Red Cat 51 are woefully under supported in terms of showing you what the image would look like with a full frame sensor. Also, the list of available imaging sensors is extremely out of date, with all of the latest Canon and ZWO sensors missing. Sure, you can manually add your own sensor data, but it would be good to have an updated list in the app. On the plus side, the summary for each set-up in terms of resolution limits is very useful for determining whether a given target can be successfully imaged under any given set of seeing conditions.
by Ca*****, 2021-11-28

So easy and quick to use but needs equipment updating. Most of cameras and scopes are not in the database.
by Cl*****, 2021-11-05
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