Hello science folks...

I guess I am as ready as I ever will be to announce my initial public release of a simple astronomical 'ephemeris' program. It is written in Python/PyGTK, and depends on the port of the python astronomical libraries mentioned in this previous post:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=18332

I started out wanting to make this functional only on the Maemo/Nxxx platform, but decided to put some extra effort into it so that it could be run 'anywhere' that the requisite Python environment exists e.g. desktops, etc.. So, this probably makes it 'cross-platform' (?).

I need to point out that I am still very much a Python 'newbie', and at my age it is difficult to pick up some of the concepts that I need to in order to do this well e.g. object oriented programming. Python experts will be pained to see my code, so I advise them to avoid the temptation to look at it

Rather than post info, screen shots, etc. here, I will direct you (again) to my 'software' page, where you will find an entry near the bottom:

http://darethehair.googlepages.com/software.html

It was quite a challenge to prove to myself that the data/plots generated were 'accurate', so I will depend on you to tell me if garbage is being generated

Of course I thank the author of 'pyephem' for creating the routines to make this possible!

Dare

NEW: Now upgraded from version 0.36 to 0.40. Requires new version of PyEphem as well.