From website: Astro Info is an open-source astronomical ephemeris/almanac for PalmOS. It displays some basic information useful to star gazers, such as rise, trans and set times, coordinates, magnitude and phase information for Sun, Moon, the other 8 planets and stars. It also features a rotatable and zoomable map.

Installation

Install the following files on your Palm:

Astro-xx.prc

• The main program. Replace xx with your language.

dstrules.pdb

• A list of rules for daylight savings time. It contains predefined rules for most countries.

PlanetsXY.prc

• A resource file containing bitmaps for sun, moon and the eight planets. These are available in three sizes (Small, Medium and Large) and in gray or color. Installing one of these removes any previous installed one.

AllStars.pdb

• The Yale Bright Star Catalogue containing stars up to magnitude 6.5 and beyond. Stars are identified by their constellation, Beyer letter, and SAO number.

Messier.pdb

• The Messier catalog - The classic list of famous stellar objects.

Caldwell.pdb

• The Caldwell catalog - A modern counterpart to the Messier catalog, the Caldwell catalog is a list of some of the most interesting objects in our skies.

Bennett.pdb

• The Jack Bennett catalog - A modern counterpart to the Messier catalog, the Caldwell catalog is a list of some of the most interesting objects in our skies.

rngc3.pdb

• The Revised NGC catalogue by Wolfgang Steinicke.

ric3.pdb

• The Revised IC catalogue by Wolfgang Steinicke.

Astro.pdb

• Some documentation on Astro Info, in DOC format.

Location.pdb

• A list of cities and their latitude and longitude, in DOC format.

License.pdb

• The Gnu General Public License, in DOC format. This license governs the copying and distribution of Astro Info.

There is more info in the /docs folder included in the zip file.

Website: https://astroinfo.sourceforge.net/

Goldfish's notes: Very cool app. It supports hi-res devices, too. I wasn't able to get it running on PalmOS 3 via cloudpilot, but it claims to run on 3.0 and up.

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