But many amateurs would love to have a pro app to make BIG observations with their respectfully-sized telescopes! Hence iObserve is built really with both in mind. It was my first intention to target a pro audience with this app. And if you need an observatory that isn’t in the pre-defined list-whether it’s your astro club meeting place or your backyard-you can create your own! New in the latest 1.0.5 version are Finding Charts! You can now easily download charts from DSS, SDSS and 2MASS in various photometric bands, with plenty of options.Īlso new in this version: an “Observatories” section to easily access observatory information, websites, and map. iObserve also provides its famous Times Bar with times of UT, Local, (Modified) Julian Day and the Local Mean Sidereal Time of an observatory. The night itself can be scaled up and down, and shifted (if you need to observe during the day…). Of course, airmass curves can be compared and the date of the observing night can be slided up to easily match future observing runs. Once entered, its coordinates are automatically resolved and iObserve provides the trackable airmass curve, the closest (currently Landolt, UKIRT & UVESPOP) standard stars, aliases with ViziR links, the latest 100 ADS references, a way to easily change coordinates to celestial or galactic, for whatever epoch and units, and many other little niceties. IObserve ($12, Free Demo) is an app that I have developed to let you prepare your observations bringing a wealth of useful information by simply entering the name of an object. Having left research, I am now a professional Mac and iOS developer in a small start-up during the day, and an indie one during my evenings. Like many software, iObserve is the app I would have loved to have years ago, when I was a support astronomer in La Silla Observatory, in Chile. After more than a year of development, starting almost from scratch, iObserve is now a stable and complete app aimed at planning and performing professional astronomical observations. This is a guest post by Cédric Foellmi, the developer of a Mac App called iObserve.
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