Astronomy iPhone App in Store
Jul 10
Was just looking through the App Store on iTunes and found an astronomy application for the iPhone/iPod Touch called Starmap. It will be fun to play with this tomorrow when I can actually install any of these apps. Why Apple has let me browse and buy these things a full day before I can even use them, I don't know. (Screenshots inside).
Amazing Space Station Sightings Coming Up
May 16
May 22nd and 23rd will be providing some excellent opportunities for seeing the International Space Station from Europe and North America. The details of each sighting vary from place to place, but it is safe to say that the two days and nights will be offering some of the best sightings for a long time!
Thanks for the Recent Activity
Mar 05Orbiting Frog has been a busy place in 2008! We are only a small way into the year but already Orbiting Frog seems to have overspilled to the extent to which I feel the need to recap and regroup. So just in case you missed anything, here is a quick overview of what's been going on here in the past couple of months. My experimentation with Google Earth and Google Sky has led to several items...
Featured Web Apps for iPhone
Mar 03My LookUp web app has been mentioned on TUAW. It tells you when to spot various satellites including the ISS over just about anywhere in the world. Another app that the article mentions is iSkyGaze which tells you lots of other things. This is actually something I have been working on myself but they seem to have done it really well so I shall leave it at that. Check it...
Look Up: iPhone Satellite Predictions
Feb 04
Look Up (v1.0) is an iPhone (or iPod touch) web application that can tell you when to look out for satellites in the night sky. It covers pretty much anywhere in the world and predicts transits for the International Space Station, Hubble, Envisat, Genesis 1 and 2 and for a short while will predict appearances by the ailing US spy satellite USA-193, which has been in the news recently. Not too...
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