Hi! I have some perl modules in use use here at the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, that may be of wider use.
Initially, I have four small PERL-only modules that encapsulate celestial equatorial coordinates in astronomy. These handle translation between the many different representations of these coordinates, including sexagesimal notation, and interoperate with Astro::SLA (already on CPAN) for the higher mathematical functions. Later, I may be able to release a set of modules (working title "GQ") that wrap relational databases to make an extensible OO interface to the DBs. These work with the DBI/DBD modules. The CPAN ID G-RIXON would suit me. I don't have a personal home-page, but my group has pages at http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/ in which material are links to CGIs using the code I would release to CPAN. Best regards, Guy Guy Rixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Astronomy Tel: +44-1223-337542 Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB3 0HA Fax: +44-1223-337523
