Astroclock Silverlight Applet

 
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Updated to version 1.1 for SilverLight 3.0 on 5-Dec-09.

Planetary positions, including moon and sun look to be good; moon phases hopefully now correct. Check with the "Your Sky" map to confirm. There are tooltips for the planets, to help identify which speck is which.

Code is contained in the .xap file for anybody interested.

Sample query string : lat=52.000000&long=0.000000&locale=en-GB&hms=HH:mm:ss&date=d-MMM-yyyy

lat
Observer latitude in degrees, North being positive
long
Observer longitude in degrees, East being positive
locale
Override of the UI culture as per CultureInfo Class -- scroll down to Culture Names and Identifiers.
hms
Time of day format as per Custom date and time format strings
date
Date format as per Custom date and time format strings

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