Astrolabe software for night campers, hikers
Fredric L. Rice
Astrolab is a free software package (written in assembly, no less) that
simulates an actua ancient astrolabe but includes many other features.
It graphically displays the position of planets, stars, moon, nebula,
constellations, gama and x-ray sources, and also shows sunrise and sunset.
The software is good for loading on to a laptop and packing it in to the
wildernes for quiack and easy location and identification of the more
human-visible items in the night sky.
Hint: The author likes to hear back from people who use this.
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Fredric L. Rice
>MUCH BETTER is Planetarium for Palm. An amazing 25 dollar program.
Probably -- Astrolabe in intended as an educational tool in to the
methodology of ancient navagators; it's more for students wishing to
understand how small metal disks were once used to circumnavagate.
duh
> The software is good for loading on to a laptop and packing it in to the
> wildernes
Right, like anyone is going to pack a laptop into the wilderness.
Well, more than once, anyway.
Fredric L. Rice
<smile> Yeah, I'm unique. Well, actually no. I'm not. A great many
people pack in telescopes and computers to drive them along with GPS
receiver, audio tape recorders, paper, pencils, and other impliments
-- more so when it's Boy Scouts or some other educational setting.
I was on a Mount Waterman traitor clearing project that was probably
the most exhausting, difficult project I was ever on, and I carried
the laptop -- even managed to get sniffs of long-latency WiFi from
off of the Mt. Wilson Observatory way off in the line-of-sight distance.
This August 22, 23, and 24 is another difficult project which will
also have not only my laptop hung in a cargo pack, non-evasive
telemetric monitoring equipment is being packed in to be placed and
left at various coyote habitats.
Mister2u
> ---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5W8ALB0SNU
> Insane woman verbally assaults 2 little girls
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Fredric L. Rice
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rick++
> Right, like anyone is going to pack a laptop into the wilderness.
> Well, more than once, anyway.
Come on, this is the 21st century.
The average teenager tempts death if unwired more than 5 minutes.
rick++
The iPhone has three types of positional sensors in it,
so you could program it as a "window" to match how
you move it against the sky.
I looked in the list of iPhone apps and didnt see many
exploitong the location sensors yet. But some nifty ones do.