Does anyone know of a portable astronomy program?
Or which one would you like to have portabalised?
Any thoughts/hints/ideas welcome.
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Portable Astronomy Program ?
Probably Stellarium would be my choice.
GNU General Public License (GPL)
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.
I was looking at it before and don't quote me on it but I think it was fairly straight forward. I may have what I was working on somewhere on my pc.
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Stellarium 0.9.0 has been released. I believe it uses an ini file in the user profile. I will check over the weekend.
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the screenshots are stunning!
That would be fantastic as a portable app!
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http://www.portablefreeware.com/?q=stellarium&m=Search
Not necessarily as portable as we would expect from things hosted on portableapps.com, but with a little tinkering (extracting files from installer, see link above) it becomes portable enough for most people. Worked for me!
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Seems to be a very nice program.
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” - Richard P. Feynman
Just now, I saw on tanisthalon's site that he's working on Stellarium.
I believe that's the one it says. I dunno, check into it yourself, I just wanted to let you know, so there's not two people working on the same app. Unless you want of course.
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Stellarium is very easy to make portable.
Just put all of it into a folder and thats it.
It looks for its data in the same folder the exe is so the only hard thing to do is to make it paf-compliant. They are working on a new version (to be released in June) and redoing the handling of the data files and maybe adding a parameter to specify the data folder so I was waiting for the new release to get started.
But as I have lots of other stuff to do right now, maybe I wait for Tanisthalons version as I'm better at testing than starting from scratch.
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” - Richard P. Feynman
Celestia too is real great program you can find it :
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/gallery.html
I install on my USB pen and work perfectly !
Aqui pueden descargar el Stellarium Portable.
Solo hay que descomprimirlo en la "carpeta PortableApps" y listo!
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Just unzip (unrar) the archive in the folder "PortableApps" and its ready!
(ups, sorry... my english its worst)
Enlace de Descarga / Link to download