Quick Tour of Chromoscope
Chromoscope is an accessible, easy tool that anyone can use to explore and understand the sky at multiple wavelengths. This video, narrated by Douglas Pierce-Price explains some of the basic features.... Read More
Planck’s view
Yesterday morning, the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft released its first full-sky image. It really is stunning and we've already included it in Chromoscope (replacing the WMAP view at microwave wavelengths). We're particularly happy about this because Chromoscope was originally created for an exhibit about the Planck and Herschel satellites last ... Read More
Version 1.2.6
Earlier in the week I gave some hints as to what the new version would contain. The changes are to functionality rather than interface. Now that it is live, I thought I would give a fuller description of the changes and why they were made.
Since launch, one popular request has been the ... Read More
Coming soon
Last week saw version 1.2.5 going live. Since then I've been working flat-out on several features and improvements for the upcoming version 1.2.6 (still under development so may be buggy). The new version has much improved code for loading map markers (map pins) from a KML file and I found my laptop can now ... Read More
Version 1.2.5
The past couple of weeks have seen a few bug fixes and tweaks to the code taking it up to version 1.2.5. The updates include: Labels are not loaded until they are actually required. This reduces the number of image requests and should speed up load time. Created English language file to allow the English ... Read More
Planets iPhone App
The data and imagery used in Chromoscope are all available to download right here on the site. iPhone developer Dana Peters did just that - adding the Chromoscope imagery with the 'Planets' iPhone app. The result is a cool new way to explore the night sky on your iPhone. Read More
Easy as 1.2.3
The default version of Chromoscope has been updated to version 1.2.3 with support for languages and page embedding. Read More
Croeso i Chromoscope
For those with a limited knowledge of Welsh (like me), the title means "Welcome to Chromoscope". Following on from the previous post we've had a great response to our request for translations of the text used in Chromoscope. As well as Italian and German we now have Welsh, French and Turkish. In version ... Read More
Update: Code & Language
It 's been a while since my last post but that doesn't mean that code development has stopped here at Chromoscope HQ. Far from it. I've been working on some fairly big changes to the code and thought I'd share them here. Read More