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Work is ongoing on the software front, a small amount of the middleware written by the project that we feel will be generally useful will be distributed to the community under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Most of this software is written in Perl and available to download directly from CPAN.
Network Status Dashboard Widget
Last Update: 25th Sept 2007 (v1.6.4)
The network status Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X Tiger allows you to track the status of the telescopes and software agents on the eSTAR network from your own machine. However if you are not running OS X, most of the widget's functionality is duplicated online.
The latest release is maintenance update which fixes problems with the status display introduced by back-end changes to telemetry files for the network. Unfortunately these changes break all previous versions of the widget.
Download estar_status_widget.zip
Zip File, 219k
Robonet-1.0 Status Dashboard Widget
Last Update: 12th March 2007 (v1.4.2)
The second Apple Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X Tiger from the eSTAR project allows you to track the real time status of the Robonet-1.0 telescopes.
More functionality will be added to the widget in next couple of weeks to allow you access to further system and weather information at each of the telescope sites.
Update: There are still some bugs with the widget in the mapping of the pointing and rotator position which I'm currently trying to resolve.
Download telescope_status_widget.zip
Zip File, 352k
OGLE Timeline Widget
Last Update: 5th Mar 208 (v1.3.3)
The third Apple Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X Tiger from the eSTAR project. This is a widget-ised version of our OGLE Event Timeline page, and was built as part of the project's work on event visualisation. However, this is an pre-alpha release which still has some bugs in the window rendering code.
Download ogle_timeline_widget.zip
Zip File, 152k
Plastic Monitor Widget
Last Update: 18th Oct 2006 (v2.0)
The fourth Apple Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X Tiger from the eSTAR project. This is the first of several widgets to come out of our work on the VOTech Plastic protocol. This is an alpha release which partially relies on the undocumented REST interface of the AG Plastic Hub, future releases will hopefully remove this dependancy.
Download plastic_monitor_widget.zip
Zip File, 134k
VOEvent Documentation & Software
The latest draft of the VOEvent standard is available from the IVOA website, while a reference Perl implementation of a VOEvent parser is available from the VOEvent Sourceforge Project.
While pre-bunded tarballs are available, since the software is under active development it is recommended that you should download the parser Perl module directly from the project's CVS server.
The VOEvent software can be checked out from the Sourceforge CVS repository through anonymous (pserver) access with the following instruction set. When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@voevent.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/voevent login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@voevent.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/voevent co -P perl_modules
A sample client for connection to a mini-interop compliant event publisher (or broker) is also available.
The SOAP Cookie Daemon
Last Update: 22nd Sep 2003
A simple standalone threaded SOAP Daemon which uses cookies to provide authentication. This is meant as an example demonstrating how to use cookies for authentication using the Perl SOAP::Lite and HTTP::Cookies packages, it doesn't depend on any of the other eSTAR packages available via CPAN.
Download cookie_daemon.tar.gz
GZipped Tar File, 8.1k
Download README
ASCII Text File, 6.3k
