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Posts: 8 | Thanked: 16 times | Joined on Mar 2010 @ Ireland
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Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
Thanks for adding a link to my orrery program. It is nowhere near as beautiful as stellarium, but I'm having fun working on it. I'd very much appreciate it if people would give it a try and send me suggestions for improvements, either through its Bugzilla database, or just by mailing me at orrery.moko@gmail.com.

One minor thing orrery has going for it is that it was originally written for Openmoko Freerunner phones, which have about 1/20 (really!) of the processing power of an N900. So I had to work hard to make the calculations run efficiently, or else it would have been unusable on a Freerunner. On an N900, it is quite responsive.

It still needs a lot of "hildonizing" to fit in well with other Maemo 5 apps.

Documentation for the program can be found here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Orrery

Thanks again!
Ken, just wanted to say a massive thank you for this program. I and my better half bought a 114mm reflector a week ago. Thanks to having Orrery on my N900 we were able to find both Mars and Saturn last night.

We got a fantastic view of both before the fog rolled in (Ireland; clear nights are a novelty here.).

I'll not claim to have exhaustively used the application but I was wondering if there's a way to configure the date display so it follows the more logical UK dd/mm/yy format?

Is there a way I can donate to the project?