LookUP Tweets

I know I seem to mention LookUP a lot but I'm quite proud of it and it keeps improving. I made it as a meta service which looks through Simbad, NED, Skybot etc. in an attempt to find any astronomical object by name rather than just a subset of the Universe.

Now Rob Simpson has made use of the XML output to add LookUP on Twitter. If you have a Twitter account you can send a message of the form: "@lookupastro Mars" and it will reply back to you with the coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination) and a link to more info. Of course it is probably quicker to just use LookUP online, on your iPhone or normal phone but what Rob has done is very neat.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Wednesday 26th Aug 2009 (17:58 BST) | 4 Comments | Permalink

Comments: LookUP Tweets

Stuart, LookUP is such a cool thing. Congrats on the new, busy job. I've been searching around to do a very similar thing as LookUP. Can you give me some idea of how you went about making the widget?

Posted by John Williams on Tuesday 15th Sep 2009 (17:50 UTC)

gravatarJohn, which bit do you want to know about? Do you mean the Javascript widget for embedding in other webpages or do you mean the entire thing?

Posted by Stuart on Tuesday 15th Sep 2009 (22:20 UTC)

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