First public (alpha) release

Features included in this version:

• Location manager:
  • Full CRUD (using external MySQL database).
  • Manual GPS coordinates introduction.
  • Automatic coordinates generation based on manual country and city selecction.
  • Automatic coordinates generation based on manual country and observatory selecction.
  • Automatic coordinates based on IP address.
• Session setup:
  • Location selecion.
  • Session date selection.
  • Session start and end times.
• Filtering:
  • by limiting magnitude (slider and spin text box).
  • by limiting magnitude presets.
  • by object kind.
  • by constellation.
• Space Objects supported:
  • All Solar System planets, including Pluto.
  • The Moon.
  • Several other natural sattelites.
• Constellation (i.e. the approximate area of the sky where you can find each target).
• Photos of planets and natural sattelites (public domain images from NASA/Wikimedia Commons).
• Basic object data:
  • Magnitude.
  • Angular diameter.
  • Elongation.
  • Phase.
  • Phase angle.
  • Equatorial coordinates - right ascention (RA) and declination (Dec).
  • Current distance to Earth, in several units.
• Rise/Set/Transit times.
• Table of hourly posititions (Altitude/Azimuth).

At this time, this application is still under development and requires a MySQL database server. The database must be manually created, for instance by "forward engineering" the provided file (docs/EER_diagram.mwb) using MySQL Workbench. In the future, it will probably progress into a more nicely integrated solution, like a built-in SQLite database.

Please take into consideration that there are still lots of features missing, like session saving and management, session notes, deep space targets listing, bookmarking favourite targets, filtering bookmarked and seen objects, and others. At this time, you can expect the application to display all the Solar System planets, the Moon and some of the natural sattelites that can be seen from Earth.