From the SouthernStars Y! group Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:48:58 +1000 (EST)
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Folks,
Apple has released our version 3.6 update for SkySafari Plus and Pro (although, strangely, not the Basic version, which hasn't yet gone into review even though we submitted it at the same time.)
Here's the "What's New" list for SkySafari 3.6 Plus and Pro:
1) Support for iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5. The "Classic" SkySafari 3 Pro app icon is back by popular demand.
2) Starflight! You can now orbit around any Hipparcos star, and view the constellations from afar. Fly through the Pleiades, or see Sirius A and B orbit each other in 3D!
3) Added the Night Sky Network to the Help menu. Find two months' worth of star parties and other astronomy events in your area, anywhere in the United States!
4) Added Hour Angle to object info display, under the Celestial Coordinates section.
5) You can now show the path of the selected solar system object across the night sky over days or months. Trace out the retrograde motion of Mars, or the gyrations of Mercury.
6) Fixed problem that made the screen occasionally go blank, with a coordinate display of NaN, NaN in the upper left corner.
7) Fixed problem importing satellite orbit files containing corrupted lines SkySafari now just skips the corrupted lines, and reads the rest of the file.
8) Fixed rare bug where the app would sometimes draw stars and constellations on top of an opaque horizon.
9) Tapping to select stars now works better. Fixed problem with selecting small nebula symbols on a high-resolution display.
10) Misc. iOptron communication fixes. Telescope motion rate slider now works correctly for SiTech telescope controllers. Demo telescope mode now works correctly.
-Tim
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However:
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Charles Habenicht wrote:
> My almost 5 year old early-generation iPod Touch,... has gotten to that age
> when its just too old to be able to be updated to the latest and much
> anticipated/wanted SkySafari Pro.
Guys,
Here's the scoop. In order to make our code run on the new iPhone 5 and support iOS 6, we need to use the new version of Xcode (4.5). This version drops support for the older ARM v6 instruction set used by the CPUs in those older devices. We spent a lot of time researching this, and there's= apparently no way around this limitation.
The minimum iOS device hardware that will now run our apps is an iPhone 3GS or iPod Touch 3rd Gen, running iOS 4.3 or later. We checked out app usage statistics in Flurry, and fewer than 1% of our users run our apps on older devices than that. Chuck, you are just lucky enough to be among them.
The price of progress is that older hardware/OS are eventually going to be
left behind. Apple drags us kicking and screaming into the future, as they
do you, too.
-Tim
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