From: Terry A. Haimann To: Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:53:52 PM Subject: [Lazarus] Astronomy App A few years ago, I wrote an app in Delphi to record my progress on observing the Messier List ( an astronomical observing challenge). The program has several very useful reports: * Rise and Set Report, which lists objects (all, seen, or unseen) and then sorts the output on how many hours the object will be up when the sun isn't. You may also select a specific constellation. * Standard Report, which lists if, when, and where an object was observed. This is useful for applying for observing certificates from the Astronomical League. I turned mine in and was awarded the Messier Certificate without any complaints from the AL. It also can export the data to csv, which can easily be imported to Calc or most other spreadsheets. * Statistics report, which was an excuse for me to play around with bar & pie charts. The data is kept in a MySQL Database, which allows me to keep multiple databases. I am currently working on my Herschel 400 list, which is a seperate database. I have made an attempt to convert it to Lazarus and it basically works, but could use some buffing and fluffing. There are Windows and Mac apps that do this already, but none for Linux. Would anyone else be interested in this? Should I create a project for this on SourceForge or what? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/attachments/20090916/10cbef89/attachment.html>