New Comet Ephemerides app for iPhone

[keiffer6]

On August 11, 2011 I released version 1.0 of Comet - Comet Ephemerides. It is an iPhone app that displays the list of observable comets from the Minor Planet Center and calculates the ephemerides for the comets.

If you have an iPhone (iPod Touch or iPad as well), you can download the app for free from iTunes.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/comet-comet-ephemerides/id455467593?mt=8


Comet - Comet Ephemerides
by Keith Yohn

I am working on version 1.1 which will allow the sorting and filtering of the comet list based on RA and magnitude limits. You will be able to sort based on most of the orbital elements. I hope to release the new version within the next couple of weeks.

Enjoy and clear skies!

Keith

[drclay]

Folks....this is one of those "gotta have" applications.
I do not own an iPhone (stubborness, mostly) but now am tempted to get one just to have this terrific application.
If you have the hardware that will operate this app, then by all means you will love having it.

Not only is it incredibly accurate and something that would be used every night out, but it is fun to operate and incredibly user friendly; fun and useful.....it doesn't get any better than that.

(....now to find my wife's iPhone.....)

Dr. Clay

[Devon Oxford]

   A growing percentage of us are Android users... Please don't forget us!
   Sounds like a wonderful app!

       Thanks....
                           Devon

[keiffer6]

Devon,

I understand and would love to be able to make this app available to everyone on every device. The short answer is that I doubt that I will be porting this to Android. This is for a number of reasons, but the biggest reason is that I simply do not have an Android device in which to develop and test an application on. The company where I work uses iPhones  for employees and we develop internal applications for those iPhones. For that reason I have access to the iOS SDK and the devices to develop on. I personally pay $99 per year to be an Apple developer and since the app is free there really is no incentive for me to also develop for the Android platform.

Sorry,
Keith

[lindendave]

Keith,

I was able to upgrade my 'dumb' phone to an iPhone 4 through my provider, Verizon, for free so I downloaded your app. When I master this new phone a little more I will definitely dig into how to use this app! The older I get the harder I find it to learn new technology but fortunately I have two sons and a daughter in law so I can text the daylights out of them for tips!