![]() Enter a flux in various units–or a magnitude in any filter band of the major photometric systems (e.g., Johnson, Strömgren, 2MASS, Cousins)–and it immediately does three things for you. The flux converter makes your observing life much easier. All of them offer the possibility of saving the conversion for future reference and adding notes. The new version, however, includes not only conversions for any coordinate system, but also a flux converter (big stuff here!) as well as a converter for times and distances. The other big development is the Converters! Current users of iObserve know that they have a quick, in-place coordinates converter at the tip of their mouse when they hover over an object’s coordinates. ![]() It will take some time though since I plan to implement the coordinate algorithms myself, as I’ve done for the Moon (and its 60 levels of correction…). With all SIMBAD,, and JPL Horizons objects now directly available in the app, iObserve has you covered, whatever your field of research! Of course, one obvious category is still missing: solar system objects. For those who had some troubles with it, know that iObserve now uses an asynchronous, and much more robust, SQLite-based storage (one of many under-the-hood improvements). 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. Before first execution, you have to set up the web driver parameters.This is a guest post by Cédric Foellmi, developer of iObserve, an observing app for OSX. You can make of copy of it and start using this for your workloads. You find a in the root directory of selenium-workloads an example workload configuration.
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