Orrery

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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
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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
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openmoko rootfs. It requires no network connection, but does use the GPS information, by querying gpsd.
  
 
<img src="wiki.openmoko.org/images/1/16/OrreryImage1.png">
 
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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="wiki.openmoko.org/images/1/16/OrreryImage1.png">

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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="wiki.openmoko.org/images/1/16/OrreryImage1.png"> </div>