Distant Suns(max) aka, Distant Suns 3.4.0 was released today. I have been getting some scattered reports of What’s Up? behaving unkindly for some; I’ll have a fix into Apple tonight, and hope they can expedite their review. Update: The new build is in Apple’s hands now. Update Squared: Apple kindly expedited the review, taking less than a day. Thanks to them. Update Cubed: I am getting some reports that people are being...

For those who have just received or are expecting their little bundles of iPad 3 joy, Distant Suns 3 works very well on it except for one toolbar button that is the wrong size, and some text on the Whats Up? that needs a little bit of tweaking. Those fixes should be sent to Apple in the next couple of days. Other than those, it looks really great, hard now to even go back and look at the ‘2.

A few folks have reported problems with the new event feature. Turns out, if there are no events in your area it goes bye-bye. Should be fixed and uploaded tomorrow, but will take another few days to get approved by Apple.

I am pleased to announce that Distant Suns 3.3 has just been pushed to the Appstore. This has many UI enhancements, lens flare and integration with the Night Sky Network. The NSN is a service co-sponsored with NASA and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to bring you a monthly calendar of space and astronomy related events in your area (US only for the preset though). Enjoy the new release, and please leave a review if you have time. And...

Pretty good seeing tonight, as opposed to last night which was awful. This is my favorite phase of the moon, as it highlights Copernicus, Clavius and Tycho. This was shot completely handheld so I could use my 35 mm eyepiece that gave me a fighting chance to capture the entire disk in one shot. The Magnilux didn’t come with the larger bracket needed for the 1.25″ eyepiece barrel. I should get that shortly so I don’t have to shoot 40 images just...

I recently received a Magnilux adapter that mounts an iPhone on a telescope and have had fun seeing on what kinds of photos it can manage. So last night I took it out and mounted it up on my Celestron 6SE. And below are the results, at least when talking about the moon. Not bad. eh?                   Tbe photo above was with a 25mm eyepiece, while the second was using a 15mm. I wanted to use my 35mm...