[Lazarus] Astronomy Software

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Terry A. Haimann wrote:

> For what it is worth I have created a project on SourceForge 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/messier/) with my Astronomy Program.  It is 
> a basic Observing Planning and Logging Program.  It is of course written in 
> Lazarus (I converted it from Delphi) and got most of the Algorithyms from 
> "Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator" By Peter Duffet-Smith.
>
> There are two major things I would like to add to it:
>
> 1.  Using a report generator instead of Printer.Canvas.TextOut Statements.
> 2.  I would like to merge it with Planetarium Program. I could do this with 
> Cartes Du Ciel 2.76, but not the newer SkyChart and since my primary audience 
> is going to be Linux Users, I really don't want to use a Windows App.

You can always try lazreport. I have a cross-platform app working with it.

Michael.