Good basics, too many issues for the price

Pros
- Great first impression
- Nice Milky Way rendering
- Solid catalogue
- Can show double star separations on the star chart
- Double star rendering pretty realistic, eg Epsilon Lyrae better than Stellarium
- Hasnt crashed on me so far

Issues
- Uneven rendering. Mag 11 solar system objects are shown brighter than mag 3-4 stars - why? Also in different color - why?
- Unintuitive limiting magnitude controls. Settings change by zoom level
- No concept of light pollution settings (as eg Stellarium has)
- Poor controls for manually operated scopes. Why are mirror flips etc not part of the equipment settings? Setting them manually in a submenu every time is a pain. Why no direct controls to skip from overview screen to predefined equipment views? Going via sub menus is again a pain, somehow only three configs make it into the submenu. Again the Stellarium oculars plugin does this much better
- poor display for preconfigured equipment. The concentric circles are irritating. Why not dampen the view outside the ocular to black, or by a settable percentage? Why not display the current magnification level? Stellarium oculars again does this better.
- The tonight overview shows useless info for observers like distance in AUs, but omits essential info like apparent magnitude, altitude over horizon (eg for planets, for ISS) or current phase (for moon). Please fix. Also consider using space better in landscape mode.
- object info screens drown you in data. Why not show a small rendering of the object under current conditions? Why not group relevant info for observing right now close to the top (eg current planet elongation from sun), and move less relevant stuff to bottom (eg galactic coordinates). Better still, move out the seldom used info (like orbital parameters, galactic and ecliptic coordinates etc etc) to additional tabs accessible via horizontal swipe.
- info screen stops showing data about past events immediately (eg flares, transits). This is annoying for writeups, consider just graying out the last 3 events or so (or make timer controls available from inside the details screen)
- The double star separation database seems to max out at 999", so labels for popular bino pairs like alcor/mizar etc make no sense (consider using some form of floating point, two digits plus mantissa should be enough).
- double star pairs labelled on charttend to be impossible to view (like 0.5" separation with 8 mag difference). Consider slanting the selection of stars to label towards decent separations and meaningful mag separations. Better still, use the angular separation limit of the scope from the equipment settings
- I find myself grappling with which doubles Ive seen, and the app does not help because it doesnt seem to highlight both elements of the pair.

mlnoga about SkySafari 5 Plus, v5.1.1