DP Tool Club 8/CDASC08.ISO/RECLAME/EDUCMAST/EDUCNOMY.WIN

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ASTROEGA - PLANETARY DATA
           Gives an animated EGA display of the Solar
           System. Provides planetary orbital data,
           rise and set times, phases of the moon,
           all you do is select date and options.
           Excellent teaching tool.

ACE1     - ACE ASTRONOMY  1 of 2
           A very extensive program covering various
           astronomical factors. Calculates the
           position, altitude, azimuth, and more for
           the sun, moon, and planets. Covers
           Eclipses, mean sidereal time and julian
           day, precession of coordinates, phases of

ACE2     - ACE ASTRONOMY  2 of 2
           equinoxes and solstices, galilean
           satellites of jupiter, perpetual calendar,
           polaris, more. Provides all information
           needed for lunar and planetary
           photography, can shell to dos. Excellent
           program.

STARVU   - STAR-VIEW
           Excellent program for displaying and
           teaching astronomy. Produces a well
           defined display of the stars for any time
           frame. Supports mouse, Herc, CGA, EGA, VGA
           graphics. Calculates astronomic
           information.

ASTRONOM - ASTRONOMICAL EPHEMERIS v2.5
           Can draw a map of about 900 of the
           brightest stars for any time or location,
           can locate all planets, and the sun and
           moon on map or provide coordinates. Will
           outline all the 88 constellations, and
           plot the path of the sun/moon/planets.

VIEWSTAR - VIEW-STAR
           Will display the sky for any
           latitude/longitude for any date or time.
           Shows position of planets and displays in
           local sidereal time of local mean time.
           CGA graphics.

SAC      - ASTRONOMY DATABASE FILE
           From the Saguaro Astronomy Club. Database
           file containing a comprehensive observing
           list. Contains all objects from 0 thru
           23.99 hours right ascension. Self unarcing
           file unarcs to over 1 meg of information.

JMOONS   - JUPITER'S MOONS v1.00
           Fascinating program that displays the
           moons and orbital paths of Jupiter.
           Animated display shows both a top view and
           a side view, 3 day & 15 day display of how
           the 4 moons cris-cross. Allows you to
           select dates and time. (Rqs. EGA)

JSSC     - JUPITER SIMULATOR/CHARTER
           Provides real time and simulated displays
           of Jupiter's galilean satellites. Also
           provides a charting function to produce a
           graph of the Jovian system over a given
           period of time. Has 3 display modes -
           realtime, skip, freeze. Uses CGA graphics

PRECESS  - PRECESS
           Simple program to calculate right
           ascension and declination using new or
           current dates.

DEEPSPAC - DEEP SPACE 3.0  1 of 2
           Deep Space 3-D is a full featured tool for
           producing professional-quality star charts
           in a wide range of formats. It plots the
           positions of the sun, moon, planets, and
           comets, up to 250,000 stars and approx.
           10,000 galaxies, cont....

DEEPSPA2 - DEEP SPACE 3.0  2 of 2
           nebulae, star clusters, etc. Supports
           Epson and compatible 9 pin and 24 pin and
           HP Laserjet II printers. A 2 disk set.
           (Requires 512k).

SHUTTLE  - SPACE SHUTTLE ORBIT SIMULATION
           Track shuttle & other satellites.
           Contains orbital data on over 100
           satellites including Hubble Space
           Telescope.  Displays world map like NASA
           Houston Mission Control Wall Map,
           including orbits.

DIGITECH - DIGI TECH STARVIEW
           Displays & Prints starviews from any earth
           coordinates, place and time.  Displays &
           Prints normal, reversed, inverted and
           reversed/inverted images, also reversed
           video (black on white and white on black).

ASTROCLK - ASTROCLOCK INCL. NAVIGATION  1 of 2
           Astronomical clock and celestial tracking
           program.  Locate and display stars and
           objects.  Identify stars, nebula, planets,
           objects, etc.  Also performs navigation
           functions.

ASTROCL2 - ASTROCLOCK INCL. NAVIGATION  2 of 2

STARYNIT - STARRY NIGHTS
           Display stars, constellations, planets,
           moons and other objects.  Includes Pascal
           Source Code.

ASTROSET - ASTROSET PROGRAMS IN BASIC
           Collection of programs written in BASIC.
           22 Separate programs of astronomy
           functions.

ASTRSHOW - ASTROSHOW
           EGA images photographed thru telescope
           with CCD photon imager and processed by
           computer.  Made by staff of University of
           California and Lawrence Berkley Labs.  27
           photo slide show.

SKYGLOBE - SKYGLOBE 3.5
           Award-winning desktop planetarium.
           Skyglobe is a fast, fun and easy to use.
           astronomy program. It 25,000 stars,
           constellation lines, star labels, planets,
           Messier Objects, zoom in or out, plus many
           other features. Very nicely done! Rqs,

SKYBASE  - SKYBASE 2000.0 SKYCHART 4.61
           Make sky charts that are oriented the way
           you need them; normal, inverted or mirror
           image. Charts can cover the whole sky or
           just enough to star hop with your finder
           scope. Supports a mouse. (Requires 512k,
           CGA, EGA).

HERSCHEL - HERSCHEL CATALOG
           On-line version of the Herschel catalog of
           deep sky objects. 2510 objects cataloged
           on this disk. Allows you to add objects to
           the catalog. Choose object by Herschel
           class, NGC number, Right Ascension,
           Declination, etc.

COSMOS   - COSMOS 8.07L
           Cosmos is a program which provides
           astronomical simulations like a
           planetarium does. This is a limited
           version from the author showing the dates
           between 1/89 thru 7/89.(Requires CGA).

PLANETRM - PC PLANETARIUM
           Nice Astronomy Program written in basic.
           Shows the night sky for anytime and place.

MARSMISN - MISSION TO MARS!
           A visual display of the proposed joint
           venture between the United States and the
           Russia  for the Mission to Mars in the
           year 2010. A self running program.
           (Requires an EGA or VGA monitor and a hard
           drive).

ASTRONMY - ASTRONOMY & STORM TRACKER
           7 different programs on this disk! 2
           Astronomy programs which show you the
           stars. Also includes are  programs for
           plotting Planet locations, determining
           Moon phases and more! (Requires CGA).

STARFIND - STARFIND
           Permits the user to view the stars in the
           sky in many different ways. Locate by
           Constellations, star name, zoom in on
           stars, rotate stars and more. Uses both
           Common names and Scientific names.
           (Requires BASIC)

PLANETS  - PLANETS 4.1
           Computes information relating to the
           position, distance, magnitude, orbit view,
           skyview, etc. for the major planets, four
           minor planets or halley's comet on a
           specified date and time.

STARMAP  - PC-STARMAP
           Learn location and configuration of over
           30 northern hemisphere constellations for
           each month of the year. View from North,
           East, South and West. (GWBasic or Basica
           Required)

GRAVITY  - GRAVITY SIMULATOR
           Designed to let a person experiment with
           the orbits of planets as they may occur in
           the universe. The motion of the planets
           can be very interesting to watch via its
           gravitational force.

STS26    - STS26 7.00
           The Space Shuttle Tracking System allows
           real time and accelerated tracking of the
           space shuttle or other objects in circular
           orbits. STS26 provides for launch from US,
           Soviet, and European (South America)
           launch sites. (Requires, CGA/EGA/VGA).

COSMOHOD - OUR COSMO-HOOD 1.10
           View the nearest 2,368 galaxies to the
           Earth and move through the illustration in
           3D.  Runs in 2 modes, specify your cosmic
           position and direction of view or take a
           trip through our Cosmo-hood.  Rqs, 500k,
           HD, mouse optional.

BANG     - BANG
           Bang is a brief history of the Big Bang
           theory. What's new in the theory? What
           happened at time = 0? What's a quark? Is
           there a theory of everything? Introduction
           of the NOTIME theory, and more. Rqs, 256k,
           EGA/VGA.