Maemo Stars released
 

I've finished the port of "Stars" to maemo.

From the original author's site:
http://nacho.princeton.edu/~walterfb/stars/

This is a program to display a map of the night sky. It is written purely in C and uses GTK+ widgets along with Gdk-Pixbuf. I used Glade for the interface design. I recommend it highly! Except for generating a small rotation matrix and some parameters, all math is integer based, allowing very fast display. At 16 bytes of memory per object, many objects can be loaded at once. Most graphics are antialiased.
Currently this program contains data for:

* 329321 stars(yale bright stars and the ACRS catalog) [points]
* 23011 galaxies(rc3 catalog) [yellow ellipses]
* about 10000 galaxy clusters(Abell and Zwicky catalogs) [light blue circles]
* 1151 galactic open clusters(Lund catalog) [grey circles]
* 160 galactic globular clusters(Monela et al) [blue crossed circles]
* Constellation boundaries(IAU 1873 standard) [green lines]
* Constellations [purple lines]
* Equatorial coordinate grid(15 min of RA by 5 deg of dec) [red grid]
* Princeton Pulsar Catalog [blue dots]
* Galactic and Ecliptic coordinate grids
* Planetary Nebula [green circles with points]

You will find it in the application catalog:
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Applicati...d7b937f2b5b45c

Enjoy!

See attachment for a screenshot

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ntid=191&stc=1

I've just made a small bug fix release, now it can display almost all star catalogues (only n31gc is still missing).

Very cool! I know I will be whipping out my 770 when I take late night walks or the (rare) times when I feel up to the challenge of manhauling my 13" Dobsonian out of the closet :)

Thanks for the hard work!

must be a big closet

I cannot seem to get libglade. Where is the deb for mistral

Ey, that's cool!

I don't know if it's easy or possible to take the position from de gps, but I think that it would be a great feature for this app in future releases... it's an idea... ;-)

I thought about it, but I've spent a lot of time learning gtk and glade to update and adjust the interface that no time left for new features.

I hope I'll find some more time for transferring the project on Garage and implement options and position persistance (with gconf) and fix some more bugs.

Of course, any help is welcome!

ciao paso, anche a me non trova libglade, ho cercato in giro altre applicazioni alle quali serve (tipo Gnumeric) e raccomandano la repository repository.maemo.org / mistral / free non-free. Ho gia' abilitato anche quella senza risultati.

Riesci a darmi un aiuto? Rispondi pure in inglese cosi' aiutiamo anche gli altri :)

Grazie, Omar

libglade ditribution for Maemo Stars
 

OK, I swear I have looked all over theses forums, the maemo site, and googled everything I could think of...and I can not find the libglade distribution that will work with this app on OS2006.

I found a link to a distribution of libglade that is "incompatible" with OSS2006. Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

installing glade
 

I had to enable matrix mode under installer: Under the App Manager, select to add a new repository, and under Web Address enter "matrix" (no quotes), then click Cancel. You will be prompted to select the Red Pill or Blue Pill. Select Red Pill. Under Install New Apps, you will now see libglade. So all the dev libraries are not displayed, follow the above process and switch back to Blue Pill. Wave to Neo if you see him.

Thank you Hobbes!!
 

At first, I though you were kidding about Matrix Mode. But then I tried it (what the heck...nothing to lose, right?) and it worked!

Thank you very much!

Well, I'm sorry that many of you are having problems installing glade, I really don't remember having done anything special in order to install this lib (probably I've installed with gnumeric some time ago).

I was pretty sure that glade was available in the maemo official repository and hence that it was automatically resolved and installed as a dependency by apt-get (or is this not as it's supposed to work?).

BTW now with the "matrix" trick this should be easy to fix.

Hi Paso, is it the libglade2-dev that is supposed to be installed? The 8,5 MB one? :eek:

Thanks, Omar

No: dev is not necessary, just install libglade2.

BTW I'm confused, why dependencies are not handled automatically?
It could be something wrong in how I created the debian package (I'm not an expert on this) but apt-get should definitely handle dependencies automatically.

I don't know, since I'm not a programmer but just a user (although I could say a "power user" :) ).
I'll try with apt-get this evening when I can connect to the internet (now I'm at work)

Bye, Omar

Thanks so much for porting this! I'd been lamenting the lack of some kind of sky map for the N770's gorgeous screen, and it's almost as if you read my mind. :-)

I'm happy you like it!

I'm not an experienced GTK/debian developer but I'm trying to improve maemo-stars right now.

The project is already on Garage (I should upload the sources though).

I really need help from someone skilled in debian packaging in order to add maemo stars to extra repository, so that it can be updated through the application manager.

Improvements I'm working on:

* eliminate the status bar to have more space for star map and put coord messages in the blank space left in the status bar (I'm fighting with text being too long)
* convert config windows to dialogs (done)
* hide all not implemented features (like coord config or time)
* it would be nice to have common name for bright stars too (but here I really don't know how to do that)

Re: Maemo Stars released
 

Is there some option that displays the name of the constellation?