[seul-edu] New educational app--astronomy

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

I just saw this on Freshmeat:

http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/starplot.html

"StarPlot is a GTK-based program, written in C++, which can be used
interactively to
 view three-dimensional perspective charts of stars. Charts can be
recentered,
 rotated, or zoomed in or out with a mouse click (this can also, of
course, be done
 via dialog boxes for more precision). Stars may be viewed (or
ignored) by spectral
 class and absolute magnitude. Other features include support for
both celestial and
 galactic coordinate systems, the ability to display extended
non-stellar objects, and
 a pop-up Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. StarPlot is also packaged
with starconvert,
 a utility which converts line-oriented stellar data records to
StarPlot format. Most
 star data files available on the Internet can be converted this way
if a short file
 describing the original file format is provided to starconvert."

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