Hello Folks!

For those interested in astronomy and/or my 'Mephemeris' application, or recent 'MChronos' applet, you might also be interested in my 'MOrrery' applet.

What is an 'orrery'? To me, it is just a strange name for a solar system orbit simulator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrery

Basically, I stole some of this code from 'Mephemeris', and put it into an applet form (using 'MChronos' as a starting point). Again, this applet uses the incredibly valuable 'PyEphem' libraries, and is written in Python. It is currently set to only refresh once a day, so it should not take up too much CPU

In any case, I packaged what little I had, and put it on my web page (like the other stuff):

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

That page has a few more screen shots, as well as links to the 'deb' file, and the 'README' file as well -- if you want to find out more about it before installing it.

WARNING: Even though this applet has not caused *me* any problems, you should use it on your own risk. If you do, let me know what you think of it. I tend to think of it more like 'eye candy' than something seriously useful!

Here is a small screenshot showing one of the configurations:



If anyone actually uses this thing, let me know what you think of it. Compared to Mephemeris, this was trivial to write. Even compared to MChronos, it was fairly easy. The biggest headache is doing actual development *on* the N800.

P.S. Don't be intimidated by the large size -- one of the options is to turn off the text info, which makes it fairly compact.

NOTE: Upgraded to version 0.10.