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- | MacAstro 1.6 |
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- MacAstro 1.6 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).
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- These are the main features of the program :
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- 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 Balloon help.
- o Requires a Macintosh Plus, Classic, or larger and a system 6.0 or
- later.
- o Shareware ($20.00 as cash, or 120.00 French francs as check or money
- order) by :
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- Nicolas Mercouroff (mercouroff@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr)
- 20, Bd Arago
- 75016 Paris
- FRANCE
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- Differences between the versions 1.6 and 1.5 of MacAstro :
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- o 32 bits clean,
- o Balloon help,
- o Possibility to set the time zone to non-integer hours (for special
- zones with a difference of half an hour),
- o A little bit more APPLE compliant,
- o Enhanced controls,
- o Correction of various bugs.
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- Differences between the versions 1.5 and 1.4 of MacAstro :
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- 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 (catalogue provided).
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- Differences between the versions 1.4 and 1.3 of MacAstro :
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- o Now displays the objects in the Solar System in color,
- o Exports the picture of the sky, Jupiter or Saturn's satellites, and
- the Moon phase,
- o "Track moves" in planetarium mode,
- o Better control of the background calculation,
- o and many, many more features...
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