Astro Panel

[Shano592]

Some clever trousers has taken 7-timer data, and made it available as an Android app!

Very easy to read and understand, and you can add different locations.

Handy.

[Astroman]

Do you have a link to it on Google Play?

[Suzy]

I love the Astro Panel ap! :2thumbs:

I've been using it for the last 6 months and I can't get over how accurate the cloud cover and dew forecasts are :eyepop:

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/weather/astro-panel-astronomy_ynoy.html

[gb_astro]

Well I hope he does a version for the iphone because Astro Weather (7Timer) seems to have disappeared from the Apps store.

gb.

[Forgey]

There is an app but its in Chinese
http://7timer.y234.cn/V3/app.php?lang=en
http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/qing-tian-zhong/id423977365?mt=8

Ive got it on my iphone, even though its in chinese its not bad to navigate.

[gb_astro]

Thanks Paula, that Chinese one is easy to follow but it does not have the full astro features that the original had.

gb.

[kustard]

Has it, I wonder why?

It shouldn't be hard to make up a scraping app, might have a look myself.

[tlgerdes]

Funny you should say that, i was up on the Gold Coast last week, and with the intermittent rain that accompanied us. I planned our theme park adventures around the AstroPanel forecast because the BoM was 1) not that accurate 2) not the granular. Everyone had a great time without getting soaked by the rain (we got soaked by thrill rides instead).

Funny how a computer in China can better predict weather in Australia than the local weather men looking out the window. :lol:

[kustard]

Hi guys, I spent the weekend (two weeks ago) coding up an iPhone (iOS5 or later only) app that grabs the 7Timer data and formats it into a simple set of graphs that I think are easy to understand. It's finally been approved for the iTunes store.

It's free and is called Sky Harbinger :)

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sky-harbinger/id524028630?mt=8

Hope it does the job for you and if there are any features people would like to add then just ask and I'll see what I can do.

Cheers,
Simon

[troypiggo]

That's excellent! I had been using AstroWeather which does similar grabbing of 7Timer data, but your app has many more features. Well done!

[kustard]

Thanks Troy, that's exactly what I was aiming for. I noticed the android version has a moon phase section, I might add that in if I get a few feature requests.

[gb_astro]

Good work Simon, thanks.

What about the ability to store a few favourite locations?
iPad version?

gb.

[kustard]

Moon phase data is on the to-do list.
User locations is on the to-do list.

I'll see about converting it to iPad as it uses the same basic graphics code as AltAzAlign which runs on both, all I did was strip out the iPad code.

Anything else that might be handy?

PS: Should I start this in a new thread?