Astronomy Programs For PDA's

Group,
I have a Compaq iPAQ H3670 pocket PC that I would like to use while
observing. Can someone recommend a good astronomy program (either freeware
or commercial) that I can install on my iPAQ? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Randy L.

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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:45:58 -0700, "Randy L."
wrote:

Group,
I have a Compaq iPAQ H3670 pocket PC that I would like to use while
observing. Can someone recommend a good astronomy program (either freeware
or commercial) that I can install on my iPAQ? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

For freeware, I highly recommend Taiyoukei, an ephemeris program that is just
loaded with features - http://www.alfcen.com/pocket/taiyo.htm (just one source;
try Googling for others).

For commercial software, you can't beat TheSky Pocket Edition, from Software
Bisque - http://www.bisque.com.

I use both on my Axim.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

For the Palm platform, I would HIGHLY recommend Planetarium. It sells
for $24, with a fully-functional nagware version available to try.

http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets/

- Chris McMahan


"Randy L." writes:

Group,
I have a Compaq iPAQ H3670 pocket PC that I would like to use while
observing. Can someone recommend a good astronomy program (either freeware
or commercial) that I can install on my iPAQ? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Randy L.

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Chris McMahan wrote:
For the Palm platform, I would HIGHLY recommend Planetarium. It sells
for $24, with a fully-functional nagware version available to try.

http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets/

I like Planetarium, too, but it does not run on the Pocket PC platform,
which is the type of device the original poster has.

Brian Tung
The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/
Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/
The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/
My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt

I like Planetarium, too, but it does not run on the Pocket PC platform,
which is the type of device the original poster has.

True but putting in a plug for a good Palm based program is a service for who
may have just read the header.

Of course your own PleiadAtlas is another powerful Palm program.

Both Planetarium ($24) and PleiadAtlas ($10) can be downloaded from the net as
shareware that is fully functional. I registered both and use both..

jon

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Group,
I have a Compaq iPAQ H3670 pocket PC that I would like to use while
observing. Can someone recommend a good astronomy program (either freeware
or commercial) that I can install on my iPAQ? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Randy L.

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Pocket Stars. You can download a demo from www.handango.com
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md
www.xs4all.nl/~martlian

For my Palm Tungsten E I have both The Sky 2 and Planetarium. Planetarium
is my favorite but both are quite good and filled with features.

You should be able to find them with a Google search.

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Joe S.




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Group,
I have a Compaq iPAQ H3670 pocket PC that I would like to use while
observing. Can someone recommend a good astronomy program (either freeware
or commercial) that I can install on my iPAQ? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Randy L.

remove "nospam" from my return email address