Our universe is gigant and even our nightsky can be confusing big and messy if you are not an expert. It's even if you try to show heavenly bodies to other people. Or maybe you don't know where to find is what.
The SpaceOrienter project is a small tool and a solution for all problems of this kind. SpaceOrienter? What is that and how to use it? The SpaceOrienter startet as "JugendForscht"-project back in 2016 and basicly is a small device, build of an ArduIno(Leonardo), a magneticfied sensor and an acceleration sensor. It points with a weak laser into the sky direkly to the body that was searched for. At the moment it uses for calculating the positions of the bodys an external computer and mainly the crossplatform app will be uploaded here. But nevertheless, even without the device is the app not useless as it answers many questions about the nightsky and what is waiting to find up there.
Pease Note: the app only supports the german langue at the moment, but multilingual support is planed for the near future!
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If you want to use ephemeris you have to place WMM.COF to the working folder of the app (may change in future). More informations at: WMM.COF and portable mode.
If you like to code for the App, Lazarus IDE would be recommend and Eye Candy Controls is required (just install it to Lazarus). More informations how to build the app will be found here.
If you want to help this project read How to help.
Ephemeris calculation is taken from PlanEph libiry and translated to pascal. So I don't own anything about this part of the project. As well as the Synapse Units. Have a look at this fantastic projects!