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iObserve Changelog

What's new in iObserve 1.7.6

Dec 22, 2019
  • Adding a little preference (in the "Airmass" preference tab) to choose the origin of the azimuth (South or North).

New in iObserve 1.7.5 (Jan 28, 2019)

  • Fixed the export of objects (both as list and as bundle).
  • Slightly improved the content of the exported objects as list (Added a # in front of the columns line to ease script parsing)
  • Fixed the import of exported objects: the last object of the bundle is now imported too!
  • Fixed onekiloparsec's URLs.

New in iObserve 1.7.4 (Jan 20, 2019)

  • Fixed the reload of the complete exoplanets catalogue.
  • Updated the embedded exoplanets catalogue.
  • Fixed a problem with the "UT Line" in the Airmass plot
  • Various fixes of UI inconsistencies

New in iObserve 1.7.3 (Dec 24, 2018)

  • Fixed various UI glitches (colors of selected celles in converters, findind charts info views etc)
  • Also fixed a hang of the app when entering no value in a converter.

New in iObserve 1.7.2 (Dec 4, 2018)

  • Fixed a crash occuring sometimes when two identical SIMBAD queries were launched at the same time.

New in iObserve 1.7.1 (Nov 23, 2018)

  • Fixed a crash at launch for macOS High Sierra users.

New in iObserve 1.7.0 (Nov 20, 2018)

  • Added full support for macOS 10.14 Mojave with a complete update of the app internals (especially about network requests and dates).
  • Dropped support for all macOS versions before High Sierra (10.13).
  • Mojave Dark Mode
  • Suppressed the large title bar to adopt a more modern and compact look .
  • Suppressed the ability to submit new observatories by email, and explain that Arcsecond.io is the new home for observatories.
  • Fixed the failing downloads of the sky preview image (available when clicking the icon to the right of the object name in the right-hand pane).
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the app to complete the import of a Small Body.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the user to select a Small Body in the list when multiple ones are found for a given name.
  • Fixed the failing downloads of 2MASS finding charts.
  • Fixed various stability issues.

New in iObserve 1.6.3 (Oct 28, 2017)

  • Fixed the blocking drag&drop problem!
  • Added the observatories in the 5 continents! Alston, CSO, FOA, Etelman, Elginfield, Frome, Ganton, HHAO, Holcomb, Hotchkiss, Kourovka, LRTO, LSU, Moore UoL, Mount John, NHAO, OMSH, Oukaïmeden, PGAO, Pico Veleta, Piombino, Red Rock, ROE, Shawnigan, USFC, VERITAS, Winer, WIRO, WMO. It is a real pleasure to keep receiving emails from all over the world. Thanks to all for submitting new observatories (and sorry for the long delay for some of them).
  • Fixed a few old spurious warnings detectable when running the app from the Terminal...

New in iObserve 1.6.2 (Oct 23, 2017)

  • Fixed the bug introduced in the last version that was causing random crashes. Sorry...
  • Fixed an infinite loop in Finding Charts occurring from time to time with SDSS charts.

New in iObserve 1.6.1 (Oct 10, 2017)

  • Small batch of fixes:
  • The Coordinates converter was giving wrong results when no transformation was applied. It is now fixed.
  • The Discovery Channel Observatory had a little problem preventing it to be usable.
  • A little tweak in the serial queue used to save objects in DB has been applied, in hope of fixing a strange bug occurring sometimes (crash report saying NSInternalInconsistencyException , reason: 'bear trap for... etc).
  • We renamed "References" to "Publications".
  • Latest adjustments for macOS High Sierra 10.13

New in iObserve 1.6.0 (Feb 21, 2017)

  • Added an "Aladin Lite" view (from the CDS in Strasbourg), in order to have a more complete sky preview in a large region around the object.
  • Upon users requests, the "new separator" and "new folder" buttons were improved. They are now one-click away only (no more popup), and can be set to be always visible in the preferences.
  • The notes associated with an object are not included as well when exported. Hence they wonderfully reappear when the object is re-imported!
  • The curve color and notes associated with a Small Body (Asteroid or Comet) are now correctly saved upon app quit.
  • A new parameter of "curve width" has been added to further refine the various plots you can build.
  • Sometimes, the Moon and Sun were not visible in the Earth map in the Times converter. This has been fixed.
  • Moreover, the day/night shadow is now correctly displayed in the Earth map.

New in iObserve 1.5.2 (Jun 13, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a rare bug occurring when parsing the ephemeris of some Small Bodies
  • Changed the insertion of new folders and separators into menus available in section headers.
  • Fixed a bug introduced in the previous release preventing the display of multiple curves for some objects.
  • Stability improvements when selecting multiple objects.
  • Re-introduced the possibility to add custom horizon masks in Sky Maps
  • Made sure that options are always shown when opening a sheet on El Capitan
  • Fixed a rare crash when opening multiple observatories.

New in iObserve 1.5.1 (May 25, 2016)

  • UI fixes related to 1.5.0

New in iObserve 1.5.0 (May 23, 2016)

  • Among the new features:
  • A whole new plot view has been added: sky maps! You can now display contours of equatorial, galactic or celestial coordinates in the frame of any of these three same systems. Of course, the local horizon is being shown, as well as horizon masks.
  • Exoplanet transits! When available, the transits, with their duration when possible, are displayed in the plots! The list of coming (and past) transits is also provided. Click on one to be transported in the right night setup.
  • A whole new Coordinates converter! Instead of loading all objects from DB, a new import feature has been added. It allows you to import lists of coordinates to play with.
  • Moreover, this version fixes many small bugs in various areas of the app. More precisely:
  • The manual import of new objects is being fixed: no need anymore to include yourself the factor 15 in the R.A. field.
  • The recognition of multiple objects in the JPL Horizon's output has been improved in the New Small Body sheet.
  • The parsing of the observation dates has been improved in the New Small Body sheet.
  • A crash occurring in some rare cases when selecting the last entry of the multiple objects table has been fixed, in the New Small Body sheet.
  • The import of Horizon Masks has been fixed to work well with the new observatory aliases, in the Startracks.
  • A usability issue of the Flux converter has also been fixed. Input wavelength value won't be blocked at '0', thus provoking NaN and infinity numbers when changing the input filter / unit.
  • The map view displayed when selecting multiple observatories has also been improved, especially when selecting many observatories with large separations.
  • The custom night slider in Star Tracks now display correctly every nights for the whole plot range
  • The time zone of the Vienna observatory has been fixed.
  • Observatories have been added, thanks to active users, for Iran (1), Turkey (2), Tasmania (1), U.S.A (3)., Netherlands (1), and Chile (2).

New in iObserve 1.4.2 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • This update fixes two small issues with manual coordinates for new objects, as well as the webservice URL for individual exoplanets. This should prevent the planet mass and other important parameters to disappear upon update. Oh, and the buttons (and other small visual tweaks) in Mavericks have been restored in their previous shine...

New in iObserve 1.4.1 (Mar 26, 2015)

  • New features and improvements:
  • Allowed to change the scaling of curve plots down to 1 hour, and the shift across 72 hours.
  • Redesigned 'New Object' sheet to avoid confusion for manuel and automatic coordinates.
  • Adding the possibility to drag-and-draw a triangle with separation values between points in Finding Charts.
  • Updated the catalogue of exoplanets.
  • Added the possibility to sort the columns of the exoplanets table.
  • Reorganisation of the 'References' of an object to a dedicated and searchable 'tab'.
  • Added the possibility to sort a folder of objects either alphabetically or using R.A..
  • Introduced various "observatory aliases" to ease the finding of some common telescopes.
  • Improved the map showing the separation of observatories (when more than one is selected at the same time).
  • And the bug fixes:
  • The tracking distance in finding charts now gives the same answer as in Aladin from CDS.
  • Fixed an issue that was provoking, sometimes, a freeze of curve plots.
  • Fixed the deletion of separators.
  • Fixed an issue with the detection type in the 'New Exoplanet' sheet.
  • Lots of fixes on the Finding Charts, especially in the secondary windows.
  • Fixed the missing colors information of the standard stars
  • Fixed the ordering of dropped items when drag-and-dropping multiple items in the left-hand tree.
  • Fixed the drag & drop when dragging multiple items from different levels.
  • Fixed the (very tricky) drawing of the shadow on the Times converter Earth map.
  • Moreover, iObserve shouldn't use as much memory as before and some optimisations have been made.

New in iObserve 1.4.0 (Mar 20, 2015)

  • This update brings some new features, lots of small fixes, but is also made for the app to keep up with new OS X versions. The internals have been modernized, the support for OS X 10.7 and 10.8 has been dropped, and the look has been refreshed and flattened. Oh, and a redesigned "New Object" sheet should allow you to not be confused anymore between the objects resolved by name, and the ones entered manually.
  • Here are the details. Among the new features and improvements:
  • Allowed to change the scaling of curve plots down to 1 hour, and the shift across 72 hours.
  • Redesigned 'New Object' sheet to avoid confusion for manual and automatic coordinates.
  • Adding the possibility to drag-and-draw a triangle with separation values between points in Finding Charts.
  • Updated the catalogue of exoplanets.
  • Added the possibility to sort the columns of the exoplanets table.
  • Reorganization of the 'References' of an object to a dedicated and searchable 'tab'.
  • Added the possibility to sort a folder of objects either alphabetically or using R.A..
  • Introduced various "observatory aliases" to ease the finding of some common telescopes.
  • Improved the map showing the separation of observatories (when more than one is selected at the same time).
  • And the bug fixes:
  • The tracking distance in finding charts now gives the same answer as in Aladin from CDS.
  • Fixed an issue that was provoking, sometimes, a freeze of curve plots.
  • Fixed the deletion of separators.
  • Fixed an issue with the detection type in the 'New Exoplanet' sheet.
  • Lots of fixes on the Finding Charts, especially in the secondary windows.
  • Fixed the missing colors information of the standard stars
  • Fixed the ordering of dropped items when drag-and-dropping multiple items in the left-hand tree.
  • Fixed the drag & drop when dragging multiple items from different levels.
  • Fixed the (very tricky) drawing of the shadow on the Times converter Earth map.
  • Moreover, iObserve shouldn't use as much memory as before and some optimizations have been made.

New in iObserve 1.3.16 (Nov 5, 2014)

  • Radio-astronomers are on board of the iObserve journey! And for them, the Sun airmass and startrack curves have been added (can be disabled in the preferences).
  • Moreover, here comes some additional bug fixes:
  • The export of airmass curves now works again.
  • The french SIMBAD server has been put first because of the problematic Harvard mirror.
  • The automatically cycle through SIMBAD servers has been fixed for name-based query (the usual one).
  • The import of objects from a file has been also slightly improved.

New in iObserve 1.3.15 (Sep 25, 2014)

  • Here comes fixes for the "JB Bugs" (thanks JB), and some others.
  • Fixed the missing visibility of small bodies (remember that small body curves have a 1-hour interval).
  • Fixed the wrong curve color of small bodies.
  • Fixed the automatic return to Airmass when selecting a new object (really sorry for this painful one, that appeared on previous version).
  • Fixed the disappearance of date selectors at the bottom of the curve plots.
  • Added RA Dec (at 1-hour step) for small bodies airmass tracking.
  • And finally fixed a bug that was forcing the load of objects at launch, because of the curve color... App launch should be faster now, especially if you have lot of objects. Curve color will be loaded from DB only on due time.

New in iObserve 1.3.14 (Aug 13, 2014)

  • Added AAVSO finding charts (with their options, of course).
  • Added velocity shifts in Fluxes converter. Now you can enter velocity shifts in km/s or as redshift value, and extrapolated magnitudes will be adjusted accordingly.
  • Added support of links to Papers 3
  • Improved parsing of tricky SIMBAD results for object informations
  • Improved update of objects (it'll take longer, but it'll work better)
  • Fixed a crash in the in-situ coordinates converter of objects.
  • Fixed a rare problem of coordinates when importing SDSS objects.
  • Improved the export of curves as ASCII columns.

New in iObserve 1.3.13 (May 21, 2014)

  • Fixed the annoying beep when opening/closing folders.
  • Removed the wrong visibility mask when printing Startrack plots.
  • Fixed a tricky problem with drag & drop.
  • Fixed crash when canceling import of Horizon Masks
  • Upgraded OpenSSL library

New in iObserve 1.3.12 (Apr 17, 2014)

  • Fixed the OSX Lion 10.7 and Mountain Lion 10.8 "freeze" and welcome process.
  • Fixed a crash occuring with some rare objects/observatory combination (the "Draco @ Paris Meudo" crash).
  • Added the Strasbourg Observatory

New in iObserve 1.3.11 (Apr 7, 2014)

  • Fixed the date selection fuzziness in main curve plots. This was causing the date to not be perfectly stable, which has a strong impact on moving objects, such as the Moon.
  • Fixed the issue of importing custom horizon masks, which was working surprisingly only for a subset of observatories.
  • Fixed the crash of zenithal grid in startracks.
  • Improved the loading of nodes during launch.

New in iObserve 1.3.10 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • Fixed the reload of exoplanets catalogue.
  • Fixed the update of exoplanet properties. Now, all available properties of the exoplanet and its parent star are shown (not only the essential subset).
  • Changed the exoplanets and objects right-hand table to handle unit conversions right into every row, when relevant.
  • Improved the retrieval of references for special object names, such as those of asteroids and comets.

New in iObserve 1.3.6 (Aug 29, 2013)

  • Fixed a rare crash occuring in very specific situations during the upgrade from 1.0 versions.
  • Fixed UI glitch in Finding Charts.
  • Fixed the saving and export of color-inverted Finding Charts.
  • Fixed the Moon-Object angle.
  • Fixed a curve tracking limit issue.
  • Updated the app for OS X Mavericks (10.9)
  • Entirely removed the very confusing "UTC line" in Airmass plots.
  • Re-added a preference to always show curve color in Objects section.

New in iObserve 1.3.5 (Jul 25, 2013)

  • Fixed the lost of object notes and curve colors when upgrading from 1.0 to 1.3.
  • Improved the saving/loading of object notes.
  • Fixed wrong AB mag conversion value in saved fluxes conversions.
  • Improved small UI details in Fluxes converter

New in iObserve 1.3.4 (Jul 9, 2013)

  • Added simple Visibility view. Objects can be organized in a simple visibility night.
  • Added the exoplanets detection methods (RV, transit, imagery, astrometry, microlensing, timing/pulsar).
  • The custom observatories are now editable.
  • Fixed 2 wrong flux conversions.
  • Fixed the deletion of custom observatories (and the associated problem of the creation of more than one observatory).
  • The state of tracking buttons is now saved between launches.
  • Fixed a crash when importing new objects from an exported bundle.
  • Fixed various UI glitches, especially in Finding Charts.

New in iObserve 1.3.3 (Jun 14, 2013)

  • Fixed wrong daylight shift in times converter's map.
  • Fixed 10.7-only problems in times converter: crash and missing Moon, Sun and Observatories.
  • Added the ability to "Invert Colors" of Finding Charts
  • Small UI improvements of Finding Charts
  • Stability improvements

New in iObserve 1.3.2 (Jun 7, 2013)

  • Fixed 10.7-Lion crash
  • Small UI fixes and improvements.

New in iObserve 1.3.1 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Asteroids & Comets! A simplified interface to JPL's Horizons service. Fully integrated into curve plots. Coordinates are computed by the JPLs and imported into iObserve, along with all the body characteristics.
  • Exoplanets! Based on the (refreshable) catalogue at exoplanet.eu
  • A whole new Converters section! Convert, save & annotate conversions for future reference.
  • Coordinates converter provides a central place to convert any coordinates, not only those of available objects.
  • Times converter is where all times can be compared, with an Earth map showing night shadow, moon and sun positions and coordinates.
  • Flux converter allows fluxes and magnitudes to be converted instantaneously to many different units and photometric systems!
  • Finally a simple and handy distance converter allows to see small and large distance conversions.
  • Automatic object updates. It just works. In the background, every available SIMBAD info is kept up-to-date for objects (using a custom VOTable parser, yeah). Exoplanets characteristics are also being updated, as well as those of small bodies, from their respective source (exoplanet.eu & JPL's Horizons).
  • Export and share a list of objects! Either as a custom binary package (with QuickLook integration), or text list is created. Both can be shared, and reimported into iObserve.
  • A new multiple-observatories view, allowing to compare location and obtain physical and angular distances between places (this is an experimental feature for future versions of iObserve when arrays and interferometers will be fully integrated).
  • Improvements:
  • No limit on number of retrieved NASA's ADS references for an object.
  • Builtin finding charts can be downloaded all at once.
  • Sunset & Sunrise times are now computed when the upper limb of the Sun reach the horizon.
  • More standard stars catalogues! Telluric, IR, spectro and photometric catalogues. More than 20 000 standard stars now available.
  • Integration with Instapaper (along that of Papers2).
  • [dev]Moved to a much more consistent, robust, asynchronous and safer storage for objects and standard stars, using sqlite databases.[/dev]
  • Small fixes (e.g. Mauna Kea horizon masks) improvements, and new observatories.
  • Fixed the upgrade from earlier versions.

New in iObserve 1.0.13 (Oct 20, 2012)

  • Fixed bug of wrong local times in airmass plot, twilight button and axis titles.
  • Fixed bug of shift between date picker and date capsules in airmass plot.
  • Fixed the import of custom horizon masks.
  • Added Keck I and II Horizon Masks.
  • Added turkish observatory.

New in iObserve 1.0.12 (Sep 19, 2012)

  • Fixed some issues with the time zones when creating custom observatories.
  • Fixed the popup menus of observatories in airmass and startrack plots when having only selected observatories.

New in iObserve 1.0.11 (Apr 10, 2012)

  • Fixed the impossibility of importing a list of objects on SnowLeopard (10.6)
  • Added the ability to customize the observatory menus.
  • Added a preference about the confirmation dialog when deleting objects.
  • Added the Teide Observatory in Tenerife (Spain).

New in iObserve 1.0.10 (Mar 6, 2012)

  • Fixed the bug of crazy twilights.
  • Improved significantly the speed of algorithms for twilights and other night quantities.
  • Restored the ability to open a file where one wants to import a list of objects, or a horizon mask.
  • Fixed a wrong orientation of custom horizon masks.
  • Other small improvements.

New in iObserve 1.0.9 (Jan 31, 2012)

  • Critical bug fix about the coordinates in the new object sheet.
  • Improved precision of twilight times.
  • Fixed the name of the San Pedro Mártir observatory.

New in iObserve 1.0.8 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Bug fixes in the airmass object tracking, and in the new object sheet.

New in iObserve 1.0.7 (Jan 4, 2012)

  • Star Tracks & Horizon Masks + Custom Colors for Curves!
  • iObserve now provides a dedicated view to display star tracks – like a basic planetarium software – but dedicated to a more professional usage. The observing time can be slided precisely accross the star track plot, to get the position of the objects, and that of the moon, at a specific moment. Moreover, horizon masks can be displayed against the tracks to measure precisely when an object go beyond an obstacle.
  • For the moment, only Horizon Masks of the Cerro Paranal Observatory (home of the VLT) are included. More will come. But you can import your own horizon masks!
  • It has been a long awaited feature: you can now customize the color of your curves. Just hover your mouse on a object name (in the airmass or star track plot) to uncover an individual color picker.
  • Moreover, a completely new first-time experience has been designed to let new users enter the app smoothly.
  • Another awaited feature has been added: object resolving by coordinates! Now, you can find an object by entering its approximate coordinates, and resolve it with SIMBAD. You can also use the coordinates of a resolved object to look around for nearby objects.
  • Finally, this update brings the following improvements and bug fixes:
  • Fixed the wrong formatting of the Hour Angle value of object tracking.
  • Much improved the way the Moon-Object separation angle is computed and displayed (see Pref pane for an updated explanation)
  • The URLs of web services (such as NEDs, SIMBAD etc) are exposed in a preference pane for advanced customization.
  • The "Home Page" and "Wikipedia" URLs of a custom observatory can now be edited in place.
  • Fixed various bugs related to the properties of an observatory.
  • Added the possibility to choose a time zone name from a list instead of using geonames.org (for existing and new custom observatories).
  • Improved the recovery (or lack of thereof, or sometimes occuring twice) of objects after a corrupted save operation.
  • Improved stability of the mechanism to add and remove standard stars.
  • Fixed an issue where Drag & Drop of a set of objects was provoking a crash.
  • Fixed the coordinates of the IGO observatory.
  • Added a new Indian observatory
  • Numerous little improvements and bug fixes.

New in iObserve 1.0.6 (Sep 28, 2011)

  • Fixed the import of multiple objects from a file.

New in iObserve 1.0.5 (Sep 14, 2011)

  • Finding Charts!
  • Now, you can download SDSS, DSS and 2MASS finding charts in various photometric bands, and with numerous options. This update also brings a new OBSERVATORIES section that give access to a detailed observatory view, with websites and map.
  • Included the correction for the Daylight Saving Time in the Local Time of the Airmass Plot. Use the new observatory view to get the Time Zone name in order to have this correction for your custom observatories.
  • Improved the fullscreen support when having multiple screens.
  • Improved the reliability of nodes consistency after deletion of items.
  • Improved the fullscreen behavior when editing an object's name or coordinates.
  • Improved the handling of unusual large system fonts.
  • Added a new Spanish observatory.
  • Improved the algorithm of the paralactic angle (now it uses that of the textbook Astronomical Algorithms).
  • Fixed the wrong longitude of Indian observatories.
  • Fixed a problem with observatory menus when deleting a custom observatory.
  • Removed the (debug-only) fixed window size at startup!
  • Fixed the deletion of standard stars.
  • Fixed a bug where twilights were wrong in observatories beyond polar circles
  • Improved the information and its formatting when exporting the table of objects sorted according to the time of their minimum airmass.
  • Fixed a bug where selecting different boundaries in the multiple-objects table was also changing the airmass plot.
  • Fixed the size of the object notes displayed in the items tree.
  • Fixed a bug preventing the use of "Current Location" when creating a custom observatory.

New in iObserve 1.0.4 (Jul 21, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug where the "day" would appear at the center of the night for a combination of some observatories and some dates.
  • Fixed a bug where an object that SIMBAD fails to resolve was maintaining the "Add Object" button disabled.
  • Fixed a bug where a new object would not appear in the items tree if two or more were already selected.
  • Improved the algorithm of the angular separation between two objects. Now it is that of the textbook Astronomical Algorithms.
  • Added the Hour Angle for the airmass curves tracking.
  • Added the customization of the curve tracking. Right click on tracking button to toggle the display of Hour Angle, Azimuth Angle and Paralactic Angle.
  • Added a first catalogue of spectrophotometric standard stars (namely UVESPOP).
  • Added small date "capsules" at the top of the airmass plot for clarity.

New in iObserve 1.0.3 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug where a new observatory with "-0" latitude and/or longitude values was recorded with "+0".
  • Fixed a stupid bug that was simply preventing to import a basic list of stars without coordinates.
  • Fixed the wrong boundaries of the data when saving the airmass curves as ASCII columns.
  • Fixed the disappearance of the tracking windows when entering/exiting full screen.
  • Fixed the wrong East/West longitude coordinates of observatories (negative longitudes were displayed with +180 degrees, that is, always positive).
  • Added the possibility to cycle the tick labels of the airmass plot between UTC, LMST and Local Time (hover your mouse on axis titles)
  • Changed to a new algorithm for the azimuth (see quick note in help).
  • Added the ACT observatory in Croatia
  • Improved the table showing multiple objects sorted according to their minimum airmass, with boundaries option, and the up time above given threshold.
  • Added a visual feedback during the loading of the objects and the item tree nodes.
  • Made a unified look and feel in all modal sheets (New Object, New Observatory, etc.)
  • Added the possibility to use the current location when entering a new obervatory.
  • Improved the tracking by adding the azimuth value, beside the parallactic angle value.
  • Added a dedicated Moon tracking providing much more precise age, illumination and coordinates accross the night (replacing the previous ugly and imprecise view of "more infos").
  • Improved the UI controls when choosing/picking/sliding the date of the night plot.
  • Replaced the "more infos" view of night limits with a button located at the bottom of the night plot. Click on it to cycle accross the various limits values.
  • Made first compatibility tests for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

New in iObserve 1.0.2 (May 4, 2011)

  • Fixed the completely wrong Moon airmass curve with new algorithm from textbook "Astronomical Algorithms", validated with Unit Tests and comparison with Xephem values. Differences of a few arcminutes have been detected with Xephem, despite perfect accuracy with textbook example.
  • Fixed the wrong UTC and LMST values in the tracking window of airmass plot.
  • Fixed an issue where the name of the standard star folder was renamed in place of the star's.
  • Fixed a problem occuring when creating a new observatory, and that was causing the app to hang or crash.
  • Fixed the missing negative galactic altitude sign (was never visible)
  • Fixed the wrong NASA ADS quicklook abstract page displayed when references are filtered with a search.
  • Fixed a problem where SIMBAD returns more than one object for a given input, that was causing the app to hang or crash.
  • Fixed the missing refresh of the star name in the airmass plot when changing the name of a star.
  • Fixed an issue where a standard star could be deleted and never recovered.
  • Fixed the wrong recovery of objects present more than 1 time in the list (for objects with equal name and coordinates).
  • Fixed a nasty bug that was screwing the correct number of standard stars saved on disk.
  • Corrected the wrong "m" and "s" units in declination coordinates.
  • Added the possibility to import a list of stars from a file, optionaly containing the coordinates. The whole import mechanism has been improved.
  • Added buttons "Open in iObserve" and "Open in Papers2" to the NASA ADS QuickLook window. Papers2 is an app by mekentosj.com.
  • Added the possibility to transform coordinates to B1950 epoch.
  • Changed the SIMBAD webpage to that of the new SIMBAD CDS Portal.
  • Improved the Help (although it is not finished).
  • Improved stability when accessing a star already saved.
  • Improved the coordinates precession algorithm.
  • Improved the drag & drop of separators.
  • Improved the reliability of deleting folders of objects, and mix of objects and folders.

New in iObserve 1.0.1 (Apr 8, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug that could lead to an infinite loop when activating/disactivating standard stars.
  • Improved the Drag & Drop of objects, for both new and "0.8" objects.
  • Improved the way folder nodes are expanded (or not).