The information about the catalogs and repositories to add, given in the installation instructions at the top of this page, is not correct.

I accidentally added the following catalog to my 770, and now Stars will install.

web location: http://repository.maemo.org/contrib/
distribution: mistral
components: free

Note that this is DIFFERENT from BOTH of the catalog and repository definitions given at the top of this page.

You’ve made a very nice program, more should be able to easily enjoy it.

I’m currently too busy to do any further deveolpment on maemo-stars, I hope I will find some more time in the (not so far) future.

Additional catalogs would be a nice feature, but I believe that making maemo-stars remember its options and closing some bugs would be at the top of my priority list.

I still hope somebody (hopefully more expert than me in astronomy) will join the project.

I have already spent a lot of time porting this app to GTK2, converting interface to new GLADE XML format, hildonizing and rearranging the interfate to fit into the N770, compiling, testing, packaging, adding to extra repository, answering to emails, that if I will continue this way, my three sons will soon ask for charity near the traffic lights of my town.

Seriously, I will not stop the development of maemo-stars, but without any help (or founding) it will be a really slow process.

BTW do you have any links to those catalogs?

The only catalogs I see at the moment are

Galcoorc
eclcoord
equcoor
vla_cal
vlba_cal
borders
const
rc3_gal
zwicky
abell
Yale
M31gc
psr_cata

AFAICS, none of these are “general use” catalogs for DSO’s. Are there other catalogs available? Specifically, the NGC/IC/Messier and/or the SAC?

If the goal is to make this useful for amateur astronomers, the inclusion of those would really help.

Also – according to:
http://nacho.princeton.edu/~walterfb/stars/

The initial program additionally offered:

1151 galactic open clusters(Lund catalog) [grey circles]
160 galactic globular clusters(Monela et al) [blue crossed circles]
Planetary Nebula [green circles with points]

Any chance we’ll see those ported in the near future?

This program looks very promising. Thank you!

I should mention this in a “Known Bugs” list though.

Second – I’m having problems with the catalogs, and I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction. When I install, I’m not getting any catalogs that contain anything other than the SAO stars, Pulsars, and several galactic catalogs. Nothing on the NGC/IC, messier or the SAC databases. This leads to some interesting issues – EX. while I can enable globular star clusters, I don’t have a catalog that has any in them!

I am running .5

Help?

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!

Tom T.

Also I have tried the new 0.5 version of stars. The same problem still exists where the application cannot be installed due to the missing glade library.

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemo-stars/