Update: mobile browser and images in astro

The Sun, the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn in the eyepiece tonight

Had to have a better browser than Firefox on my phone. So gaze was created as a member of my set of nomad apps.

gaze on the phone

gaze on the phone

  • Send a tab to the laptop. Send one back with :send.
  • The laptop’s passwords and bookmarks, shared over Syncthing.
  • Ads blocked. Pages dark.
  • Ask Claude about the page you are on.

Images in astro

And then astro got a cool update. It now shows images of Deep Sky objects, the planets, moon and sun. Both the spectacular images you find on Wikipedia, but more importantly how the selected object will look through your telescope & eyepiece combination.

M42 on Wikipedia and through the Esprit

  • Enter twice on an object shows its picture. f turns it as a telescope or a star diagonal does.
  • r shows it through a telescope and eyepiece pair from Gear mode. e steps to the next pair.
  • + and - lean in. A planet fills more of your eye at the eyepiece than a small box on a screen shows.
  • The deep sky comes from a sky survey, dimmed to what the eye catches through that telescope.
  • The planets, the Moon and the Sun show at their true size tonight, lit from the Sun’s side. Venus is a crescent. Jupiter’s moons are where they are. Saturn’s rings are nearly edge-on, as they are this year.
  • The Sun is today’s picture from NASA’s SDO satellite, spots and all. Look at it only through a solar filter.

Summary

Built with Claude. Public Domain, like everything I make.


Link to this post: https://isene.org/2026/09/Update.html

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