![]() ![]() This new type of coordinate triggered some hard work on the app model and pushed for an entirely new way to store objects within iObserve. For each object, iObserve triggers background checks to keep all available information about it, including relevant published articles, up-to-date.įor comets and asteroids–unlike other objects whose positions are fixed–a series of coordinates are downloaded from Horizons, since it’s certainly the best way to ensure they are accurate (the JPL algorithms are a lot more mature than mine). ![]() Additionally, all objects (including those from SIMBAD) are now automatically kept up-to-date. Moreover, a beta version for the iPad is opened for testing.Įxoplanets are retrieved from 1 while asteroids and comets are provided by the JPL Horizons service. Given the size of the target market, I am very proud of this result, especially considering that it all started as a dashboard widget! The major new features that iObserve 1.3 brings are new objects (exoplanets, asteroids, and comets) and converters for coordinates, fluxes, times, and distances. Since its inception, iObserve has already garnered more than 550 active users. After more than a year of development, many new features are available which should make the app attractive to an even wider audience. IObserve, the OSX app designed to simplify your observing runs, is getting a major upgrade. The evaluaton results can be found at the lbl-results branch in the results folder.This is a guest post by Cédric Foellmi, developer of iObserve, an observing app for OSX. Before reconfiguring the planning service a new scenario may be chosen by editing the config file.
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