Is this a piece of Space 1899 high tech? - perhaps the Martian attack has failed and the humans are returning to Mars for their revenge? Is it a piece of the Victorian space technology that human space farers might use in their quest for conquest of Mars?

Nope! It is simply a Xwidget version of my previous Steampunk Orrery Widget. The Xwidget skin is a straight conversion of the original steampunk orrery using my graphics for the front end. The clock is working, the cogs rotate and the clock tells the time. At the moment the advanced functions of the original Yahoo widget Orerry have not yet been transferred but this may yet occur, give me time.

The hard work in converting the orerry was performed by a dedicated master widgeteer by the name of Harry Whitfield. His skills in converting the YWE!

My own inspiration was based upon a superb blog navigation device on Ian Tregillis' site created by Richard Mueller of 3232 design. His superb bit of Adobe Flash was really inspirational and it made me want to complete it (the original only shows 50% of the device and was limited to running on flash only web-pages within the browser). With the oncoming demise of Flash I created a new version that would not be dependant upon it. My version adds functionality and will run on your Windows desktop.