FinderCam: an Alternative to StarSense for Any Telescope

Happy to report a game-changer app for amateur astronomers, FinderCam. Here is an iPhone-iPad iOS app to find objects in the sky. It is used by mounting and aligning your phone to any telescope or binocular.
Applying the well-known plate-solving technology, FinderCam compares the view your scope and phone see with a map of the sky. In this way you can find your way in the sky. The map is set to your location and time and updates every minute.
You can ask it to find an object (star, planet, galaxy) from the extensive built-in catalog. After aligning with three bright stars, a laser-like green guide-path appears on your phone. It gives the direction from your present position to the desired object. Just slew your scope to follow the path to your desired target. Try it out during the day with or without scope by covering the camera on the iPhone. A complete manual is found in the app.
Finally we amateur astronomers now have a way of guiding any scope through the sky.
Astrophotography Tutorials for Beginners on the Irandar Channel of KZbin
Using Astro Software Aids
Finding the New Comet with Stellarium
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Finding Your Star with Plate-Solving
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Stellarium: an Introduction
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Astro for Beginners: Field of View Calculation for Telescopes
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Cameras with Telescopes
Connecting Cameras to Telescopes for Astrophotography
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Using a camera with a telescope
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Using a Smart Phone and Eyepieces with a Telescope
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Field of View FOV with camera and telescopes
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Telescopes with a Camera
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Astrophotography: Getting Focus with a Camera on a Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130
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Astrophotography for Beginners: Field of View with Three Telescopes
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Astrophotography: Understanding Eyepiece Projection
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Affinity Photo for Astro Processing
Moon Panorama with Affinity Photo
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Astrophotography: Processing Astropix files with Affinity Photo
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Affinity Photo for astro stacking LRGB files in groups and editing
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Learning Astrophotography with Affinity Photo and James Ritson
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Astrophotography for Beginners: Affinity Photo for Stacking and Processing
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Making Star Trails with Affinity Photo
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Viewing the Moon with a 90 Mak Telescope and Affinity Photo
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How to Find Hubble Telescope Astro Data for Processing with Affinity Photo
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Learning Affinity Photo with the Milky Way
Mounts for Telescopes
Intro to the EQ1 Telescope Mount for Beginners in Astrophotography
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Star Adventurer Mini SAM: Setting Up and Tracking the Sun
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Guide to the Star Adventurer Mini SAM for Astrophotography
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Astrophotography: Adjusting Your Polarscope
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The SAM Astrophotography Mount Revisited
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Synscan Wifi for astro telescope control
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SynScan EQ5 Mount Setup and Handcontroller
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Practice Files
Finding astro files to practice processing
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How to Find Hubble Telescope Astro Data for Processing with Affinity Photo
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Astrophotography: Processing Astropix files with Affinity Photo
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FinderCam
Introducing FinderCam
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iPhone Mounting on Your Telescope for FinderCam
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An Alternative to Star Sense: FinderCam
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FinderCam an Alternative to StarSense for Any Telescope
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[@swould333]

Any plan for an Android port?

[@frednava]

i can't find this anymore in the apple app store. has it been taken down?

[@irandar]

Maybe not sure. Let you know in 8h

[@irandar]

Greetings, It's still there. Gotta spell it carefully. Also the simpler one called PushToCam is not bad and does not require lining up the phone camera. And the middle one FinderCam. See this deepskycolor.blogspot.com/ for details on all. Would be glad to know your experiences. Thanks and regards

[@irandar]

PlateSolveCam is there but not the other two.

[@Alpinsoul]

Would change the title for better search

[@irandar]

What would you suggest?

[@irandar]

How is this?

[@Alpinsoul]

​@@irandar the starsense alternative