Orrery

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Revision as of 01:29, 26 March 2008

In progress: This article or section documents one or more features whose implementation are in progress.

The orrery is a simple application for the openmoko platform which displays the night sky. It is nothing like as elaborate as, for example Google Sky or xephem. It is intended to be a small application that will have a storage footprint comparable to a ringtone, or one of the games bundled with the openmoko rootfs. It requires no network connection, but does use the GPS information, by querying gpsd.

Orrery Screen Grab 1

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In progress: This article or section documents one or more features whose implementation are in progress.

The orrery is a simple application for the openmoko platform which displays the night sky. It is nothing like as elaborate as, for example Google Sky or xephem. It is intended to be a small application that will have a storage footprint comparable to a ringtone, or one of the games bundled with the openmoko rootfs. It requires no network connection, but does use the GPS information, by querying gpsd.

<img src="/images/1/16/OrreryImage1.png">