10 years ago, at 9:12 Paris time, the first commit of Arcsecond was registered. 🎂
What a journey it was, and it continues to be! Below a small serie of screenshots of the adventure, which started around 2004 in Chile, with the so-called Max OS X 10.4 Tiger “widgets”…
It started with AstroTimes! My first widget. A crazy mix of Python, HTML, CSS and JavaScript (and a bit of C if I remember well)…
UltimateAstroWidget, the combination of times, airmass and observability widgets. What an ugly name, but that was the logical evolution. And here is a concentration of all the things at stake since the beginning: coordinates of observing sites, different times, coordinates of objects, consistent UI, correct airmass and night drawing, saving data in a file…
Then came the long period of the macOS App “iObserve”. I became pretty good at drawing stuff. And fighting with crazy connectors…
These connectors (and especially the JPL one) were the driving reason for starting a whole new approach. From a heavy client containing everything as was the iObserve app, the idea was to create a backend of connectors, and make a lightweight client.
But the development of the backend revealed itself to be much MUCH more promising (and Apple helping quite a lot with its insane AppStore rules so discouraging for niche developers like me).
Slowly, I was able to reproduce iObserve in a web browser, and make it even better than the macOS App!
I can’t wait to put the new Arcsecond V6 in your hands! Here is a quick preview:
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