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SKYMAP11.ZIP Professional Planetarium Simulator for Microsoft Windows 3.1
Introduction
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SkyMap is a planetarium simulator for Microsoft Windows 3.1. It will draw
maps of the sky as seen from any place on Earth for any date between 4000BC
and 8000AD.
Unlike some other programs of its kind, SkyMap makes no claims to be
blindingly fast; the objective when writing it was to achieve high precision,
rather than high speed. Planetary position, for example, will generally
agree with those in the "Astronomical Almanac" to within 0.5 seconds of arc.
The star database supplied with this version of SkyMap contains 15,931 stars
down to magnitude 7; registered users will receive a much larger version of
the database.
Installation
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To install SkyMap, simply copy all the files in this archive into a directory
on your hard disk, then run the program SKYMAP.EXE.
For more information, please refer to the SkyMap manual in file SKYMAP.WRI.
This file is in "Windows Write" format.
Registration
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SkyMap is ShareWare. You may evaluate it for a period of 30 days. After
this time, please either pay the modest registration fee, or delete it from
your computer. Full details of registration are contained in the manual.
Notes
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This is the first public release of SkyMap, and is being release primarily
for comment, and suggestions as to how it could be improved. I would
welcome any comments, either positive or negative.
Chris Marriott
31st January 1993
Internet: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk
BIX/CIX: cmarriott