Hitchhiker 2000: Credits, References and Sources

Patch Contributors

• Arturo Aldama

Astronomical Data and Orbital Elements

• The Minor Planet Center
• Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit, Warren 1991)
• Constellation definition tables, Home Planet, (John Walker)
• "Universe Guide to Stare and Planets," (Ian Ridpath, Wil Tirion) 1985 Universe Books, NY
• The Nine Planets, (Bill Arnett)
• 95P/(2060) Chiron (1996), (Kenji Muraoka)
• The Spectral Types of Stars, (Alan MacRobert) Sky & Telescope http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html

Planetary Maps and Astronomical Image Resources

• Milky Way, Creating a Milky Way Panorama on the Computer, Axel Mellinger
• Moon, Mars, Pluto, Maps of the Solar System, JPL/Caltech-NASA
• Mercury, Neptune, 3D Rendering
• Venus, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, 3D graphics, renderings, animations, planetary maps and data
• Earth, Saturn, Planetary Maps Hub
• Jupiter Planetary Image Maps
• The Sun, Uranus, Aaron Worley

Programming References

• Computing planetary positions, (Paul Schlyter)
• "GTK+/Gnome Application Development," (Havoc Pennington) 1999 O'Reilly
• GTK+ Tutorial
• OpenGL.org
• Example programs, Mesa3d.org
• Data conversion scripts, XEphem, (Elwood Downey)
• Source code, Ssystem, (Raul Alonso)

Software Tools Used

• Mesa
• Glade UI Builder
• Gtkglarea
• Loki Setup
• XEmacs
• Red Hat Linux