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- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 91 17:24:14 edt
- From: "Nicolas Mercouroff" <nm@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Subject: MacAstro 1.5
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- | MacAstro 1.5 |
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-
- This is a new version of the program MacAstro. It includes some new
- important features like the drawing of the constellations or an
- enhanced way to localize stars (see bellow a description of the
- differences with the previous version).
-
- If you don't know what is MacAstro, this is a small description of the
- program :
-
- MacAstro 1.5 is a program for astronomy lovers to calculate the
- appearance of the sky at any time and any point on earth. It
- displays the position of the 8 major planets, the Sun, the Moon, and
- 2500 brightest astronomical objects (stars and Messier's objects).
-
- These are the main features of the program :
-
- o Full Macintosh interface.
- o Background calculations.
- o Displays in color the position of the objects of the Solar System
- (8 planets + Sun + Moon) and displays the position of the 2500
- brightest stars in the sky, according to the date and place
- of the observation.
- o Displays the constellations.
- o Displays the ephemeris of any of the 2510 objects :
- - rising/setting/culmination,
- - right ascension/declination,
- - azimuth/altitude,
- - visual magnitude and diameter,
- and allows to save it to a text file for the planets, the Sun and
- the Moon.
- o Displays and exports a picture of the phase of the Moon.
- o Displays and exports a picture of Jupiter and Saturn's satellites
- position.
- o Displays the sidereal time.
- o "Planetarium" mode : an animation refreshes regularly the appearance
- of the sky (can turn in background under MultiFinder).
- o Editable list of most commonly used places of observation, and
- possibility to use the location coordinates stored in the PRAM.
- o Requires a Macintosh Plus, Classic, or larger and a system 6.0 or
- later.
-
- Difference between the versions 1.5 and 1.4 of MacAstro :
-
- o Displays the constellations,
- o "AutoFind," which allows you to find the information about a star
- just by pointing it,
- o Reads the location (latitude and longitude) stored in the PRAM
- memory of the Macintosh,
- o Complete control of the size of the stars according to their
- magnitudes,
- o Draws up to 2500 stars (catalog provided).
-
-
- Shareware ($20.00 or 120.00 French francs) by :
-
- Nicolas Mercouroff (nm@cs.brandeis.edu)
- P.O. Box 390929,
- Cambridge, MA 02139,
- USA
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