Ever wanted to travel through space? Me too. Growing up in the 60s, it was hard to ignore the moon program. If there was a launch in the morning, my teachers knew I’d be late to school. My penance? Bring my models and explain the latest mission. Every Friday evening you would find me at a local observatory or planetarium. They were magic. I’d sit in the back row trying to “catch” the stars as the planetarium’s projector rotated the sky against...

I’ve received a couple of reports that Distant Suns-Max and iOS 11 don’t play well together, and while I can use the excuse “IWoMM” (It Works on My Machine), I’ve touched up a couple of things that may have caused the issues. I’ve been working on a new version for nearly 3 years now, and just haven’t paid much attention to the existing versions. Fear not! I haven’t abandoned it! The DSM fix will...

Some have reported store-problems with the in-app purchase of the new Hubble Guide Star catalog. It might be an Apple issue, as things worked fine in final test. I’ll be digging in tonight though. Update: This has now been fixed.

< This is most people’s charging station. This is my charging station. And from behind. Any questions?

Thanks to all of you who have picked up CometWatch (and to Space.com for reporting it). A couple of things I wanted to do missed the release simply because I found either no way to slow up Comet ISON for a few extra days, nor was I able to integrate iOS 7’s new CoreTimeTravel framework to zip me back a few days for that “extra edge.” But for the main task to help you located ISON, particularly after closest approach, it does...

Some iOS 6 users have been having problems with the latest build of Distant Suns. I have the fix ready to go, but will take a few days to get it approved and into the store. In the meantime if you are experiencing problems with the constellation selector, you should be able to rollback to the previous build for a few days. The Management.