My name is Alberto Cavalli. I’m an Italian IT consultant(science databases, big data, computing systems, etc) and live in Rome, Italy. Astronomy and everything that is related with has always been a strong interest for me since childhood. I’ve been tickering with orbit calculations and astronomical event prediction for more than 40 years.
Since 2025 member of S.I.A. (Italian Society of Archaeoastronomy).
I think that in the 80’s I’ve programmed almost everything that was programmable (Texas T series, HP RPN and so on) until Personal Computers gave new chance in terms of memory and speed for astronomical computations.
Ok, they look kinda primitive today, but an IBM Pc XT or an Olivetti M20 weren’t really comparable with today’s machines in terms of graphics, memory and speed.
Therefore, after several years of programming inactivity I found on Internet a promising IDE, Lazarus, and met an old friend too, Pascal programming language. Lazarus’ catch-phrase is something like “Write Once, Compile Anywhere”, and it’s true. Even though some graphic control behaves differently in Windows or in MacOS, I can say that it’s true. So I started (October 2019) assembling my VSOP87/ELP2000-85 engine in Pascal and Kontacts (its temporary name) slowly has come to life.
Administrator email : urukfsp.software[cut-this]@gmail.com