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- SPECIAL ADVISORY FOR THE HALE-BOPP EDITION
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-
- Before you dive into this version of Coeli, it is only fair
- that we point out the presence of a known bug associated with
- the late addition of the Hale-Bopp comet display honouring the
- fast approaching millennial celestial event of this spring and
- summer 1997...
-
- The bug takes the form of an occasional/intermittent floating
- point error, with no apparent regular logic or cause. It
- occurs principally when animating Solar System bodies or with
- certain of Coeli's time-advance funtions.
-
- We should like to make it known at the outset that pressing
- [alt]+[c] will banish the bug forever, since it is associated
- with our last-minute addition of comet displays, and [alt]+[c]
- is the way to toggle these displays on and off...
-
- Needless to say, we are working on this minor problem and
- should have it fixed by the next Coeli update. However, this
- would have been too late for Hale-Bopp. We debated long and
- hard whether to incorporate the comet's display in this
- particular release, as against simply forgetting about it, and
- settled resoundingly on its inclusion.
-
- The most efficient means of tracking such a significant and
- not-to-be-repeated-in-our-lifetimes astronomical event should
- be accessible to the maximum number of people. Now, with Coeli
- installed on your computer, you are one of that number.
-
- Welcome.
-
- Swimming Elk Software.
-