PallasmacOS
Points your telescope at the right thing.
Catalogue Search SlowAn imagerTyping a target name takes about two seconds a keystroke once the full catalogue is loaded. On a cold night with gloves on that is genuinely painful.Ben Ito Two seconds a keystroke means we are searching the whole catalogue on every letter rather than narrowing what we already have. Looking at it now, and gloves on a cold night is exactly the context we should be designing for.Lost After FlipA customerIt re-acquires eventually but the exposure is ruined, so a two-hour sequence loses about twenty minutes.Dark Mode Too BrightAn observatory volunteerDark mode is dark grey, not red. Any light at all costs me my night vision for twenty minutes, so I end up covering the screen with a cloth.Dmitri Novak Covering the screen with a cloth is a strong sign the dark mode is not doing the job it exists to do. Agreed.Sequences Stop OvernightAn imagerSix-hour sequence, machine on mains, and I come down to find it stopped at about two in the morning with the screen asleep. Caffeinate keeps it going, which rather suggests the app should be asking for that itself.Ben Ito You should not have to know what caffeinate is to leave a sequence running, and the fact that it works tells us exactly what is wrong.