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	chemist	2009-12-15 , 14:37
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Originally Posted by darethehair

I think that it is a great idea to create/port astronomy apps/widgets for the N900! After all, it was my own interest that spawned 'MEphemeris' and 'MChronos' for the N8xx series, and ideally (somehow/someday) I would like to run them on the N900 as well

However, I am unclear on the criteria being used for this 'wish list' -- there all a number of 'astro' apps that already exist beyond those mentioned here -- are they candidates as well? i.e. XEphem, KStars, etc..

My own N8xx apps are not nearly as 'slick' as all of them. Do they lack functionality that is desired?

why stellarium is atm my favorite is because of the Qt UI, I tested the windows version real quick at work and was impressed, its just enough features so not overdoing it but nothing serious missing as well.

How easy it is to implement later on with GPS data and view setup is another issue, my primaries are map-databases and basic features.

Solution #2 provides just an idea of how it could be kept a small program, with a huge online database to activate if needed. while solution #1 is actually based on a GPL database, which probably needs to run online all the time.

please consider setting up a solution for the programs you know (feature rich or not, each idea one solution please), provide information on what is what, is it GTK or Qt and maybe a feature list! I will edit my solutions to get some more detail into them too.

what are "your" programs like?

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