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GNUSkies - Project to create a free version of the xephem program

The GnuSkies Project is an attempt to create a 'Total Plug In' (TPI) application which will eventually contain many features not yet implemented in xephem. The project is still in very early stages of development. Listed below are some of the crude initial modules currently under development. These will likely be updated and can considerably change in the near future.

Total Plug In (TPI) base - The TPI core which will let the rest of the application be developed as plugins.
SQL database server (plugin) - with star catalogs, orbital elements for the trajectories of well known objects, etc. It will most likely use the PostgreSQL server for this since that is available under GPL.
Planetarium-like display facility (plugin) - so objects in the sky can graphically displayed on a computer screen.
Ephemeris backend - covering the most basic functionality.
Orbital computation/estimation module

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Web page

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuskies/gnuskies.html

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Support contacts

Project contacts

Maintainers	Rahul Mittal <mittal@ast.vill.edu>
Developers	Chip Coldwell Bill Yerazunis Darren Leigh Mark Gollahon Rahul Mittal Walter Brisken

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License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-05-22
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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