Based on complete catalogs (up to 2,5million of stars and 18200 deep sky objects), Astromist helps the beginners on astronomy (as well as the experienced one) to prepare and realize their observation sessions.

Astromist provides several sky maps which let the end-user find easily position of the stars, planets, comets or sky objects (M. Messier catalog, Caldwell, Hershell, SAC, SAO, NGC, IC, Hipparchos, Abell, etc.).

Furthermore, if you want to control your telescope with your PDA, Astromist is done for you. It controls most of the telescopes available nowadays (meade, celestron, takahasi, losmandy, Astrophysic, ouranos, bbox, ..) and provides GPS control to locate you automatically on the earth !

Using Astromist sky maps, Two stars alignment has been never made so easy. For more advanced astronomers, Astromist is the only assistant on Palm PDA to provide several stars alignment methods to get accurate telescope pointing (home dobson with encoder or commercial mount).

At last, Astromist is designed to help astronomer to organize efficiently his observation sessions by answering some usual questions:
* Could I see this object tonight ? If it isn't the case, what will be the best period to observe it?
* Tonight what will be the obvious galaxies with my telescope ?
* Could I fully see M31 using my 18mm eyepiece?
* I plan to do tonight an one hour observation session. What will be the objects I could see during this time frame ?
* Is this object easy to see or not ?
* Tonight considering I have this mountain in front of me, What objects will be higher in the
* What are the easiest object to observe tonight ? And the more difficult ?
* How can I find this object if my mount is not aligned ?
* What object could I see easily using a Ploss 10mm and my telescope?

Astromist is able to answer quickly to these questions and to more complex one if all the constraints are mixed together:
* I would like to point my 400mm telescope during the next hour to see all obvious nebulae which are in the constellation of the Swan and which will fill my 20mm eyepiece?

"Everything in the palm of your hand" Such was the guiding principle of the design of Astromist.

Updated Description:

v2.5.7:

* Fix object type display issue within Visible SkyChart
* Fix wrong display of moon calendar for month starting a sunday
* Fix 3rd digit precision bug in locationdb.exe for longitude
* Fix LocationAssistant longitude and latitude field update bug
* Fix date&time selection that needed to be done twice the first time