Update to this thread...

Recently I upgraded my 'Mephemeris' program from version 0.36 to 0.40. See the 'README' file link mentioned in the link at the top of this thread for more info if interested. Note that I also updated the link in that posting to reflect the new Googlepages home for my N8x0 software. Someday I will be brave enough to upload my stuff to a repository

The package is MUCH larger than it was originally. The main reason is that I created a much larger star catalog than the original. This extra info is pretty much wasted on the N8x0 (takes too long to plot them all), but is OK for the desktop (which Mephemeris also runs on). Hopefully some day an 'official' Debianized open source star catalog will be created that all programs could 'share'. Once that happens, I would be happy to switch to that

IMPORTANT: You must also upgrade the 'PyEphem' python library to 3.7.3.2 or newer (also on my software page), since the author made some changes to the API that I also took advantage of. The newer version also fixes a 'runaway calculation' error that the older one was vulnerable to.

As always, for any of you that try/use Mephemeris, I would be interested to get feedback on it. My Python/Maemo skills are reaching their limits, however

UPDATE: List of changes in version 0.40:

2008/08/14 = version 0.40
- add legend toggle
- remove magnitude limiter for maemo
- fix and improve grid options
- add grid option to polar plot
- add zoom option to polar plot
- add legend to polar plot
- allow zoom out past 90 degree field of view