Stars and Astronomy on the Be Operating System

I bet if you're hobo you always wanted astro application for the BeOS. Charts demo is nothing, remember. We have more detailed and real astronomical software. For example: Stellarium - recently ported to the BeOS, just great, but needs nVidia card. OpenGalaxy - worse, but it's usable. SkyORB is old, but you can view the sky. The world is not only Charts !  We have five projects on the BeOS: SkyORB (dead) - 3D sky charts, 2002 Stellarium (port) - 2D /3D sky charts, enhanced by nice graphics - 2005 (requires new nVidia 3D drivers) OpenGalaxy (port) - 2D sky charts - just plain charts, early port - 2005 (recommended new nVidia 3D drivers) OpenUniverse (port) - 3D solar system, enhanced by nice graphics (but more poor than Stellarium) - 2006 (requires ZETA) Celestia (port) - 3D space & solar system, nice graphics - 2006 (requires nVidia 3D drivers)

Application's Comparison

A little BeOS astro comparison. Which program is the best ? Let's see... (tested on Mesa 6.2) App name/function SkyORB OpenGalaxy Stellarium OpenUniverse Celestia Speed fast quite fast slow a bit slow a bit slow Utility small small big! medium medium Star density small big medium small big Scenery sky/space sky map backyard/sky/space space space Dimensions 3D/2D 2D 2D/3D 3D 3D Constellations drawing drawing drawing/art none yes RT Simulation yes unknown yes (enhanced) yes yes Grid lines yes yes yes no no Info on stars/planets* n n n/r/d1/d2/m n/c d2/r/n/d1 * n - name, r - RA, d1 - DE, d2 - distance, m - magnitude, c - camera distance from sun

BeShare and the most wanted...

Every app listed here, you can find on our BeOS p2p (MUSCLE) network - BeShare. The most wanted astronomical application to be ported to BeOS is obviously XEphem (the best linux astronomical program). As far as I know, 3dEyes compiled it on BeOS but it'd errors with LessTif. If you can help in any way - let me know.

Download

Below are links for applications listed above. Some links could be broken, so you can try searching on BeShare. SkyORB Stellarium OpenGalaxy - port under development OpenUniverse Celestia

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