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- The Moon Viewer 3.0
- Windows Moon Background 1.0
-
- Shareware
-
- The Best Moon Shareware Package
-
- Copright (C) 1996 By Lorenzo Pasqualis
- All rights reserved
-
-
- Moon Viewer Short Guide.
-
- This is just a short guide. The Moon Viewer is very easy
- to use and I'm not going to write a complete manual. I'm
- sure that you will find this short guide detailed enough
- to use Moon Viewer.
-
- Please, apologize for my english. You will probably find
- many english errors in this file. My first language
- is Italian. I'm sure that the quality of this software
- is more important and will satisfy you more than my
- english!
-
-
- Run Moon Viewer:
-
- To run the program just run MOON.EXE from the Command Prompt
- or from Windows. There aren't command line parameter.
-
- Notation:
-
- UTC = Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time).
- LT = Local Time (Your time in your zone).
-
-
- Start screen:
-
- The start screen is different if you are a registered user or not.
-
- - If you are a shareware user (not registered) you have to read the
- LICENSE agreement that will be showed. You can scroll the window
- with PagUp/PagDown keys (or arrows). If you agree with the
- license just press Y (that mean.. YES, I AGREE!), and you will
- be jumped in the Main Screen.
-
- If you don't agree just press ESC to exit to DOS. You must agree
- to use this trial version of Moon Viewer.
-
- - If you are a registerd user, Moon Viewer will show you a window
- with written that you are registered, and with your name,
- address and all datas. If you press a key or if you wait 3 sec.
- the screen disappear and you go directly to the Main Screen. No
- boring license agreement to read!! :)
-
- Main screen:
-
- WOW! On the top, in the center of your monitor you can see the
- actual Moon!!! If you see just a dark circle it mean that you are
- in the New Moon phase. If you see the full Moon without shadow on
- it... of curse, you are in the full Moon phase!
-
- There are 4 windows showing many information. The first one, on
- the left, is the "Information window" where you can read everything
- about the Moon in the picture. Then there is a Status window where
- you can read the status of the program and the actual REAL date and
- time.
- The third window is the Menu', with all the commands available.
- The little window on the bottom of the screen is the "Last file
- written" window, where you can read the name of the last file
- exported. Just to remember if you have export something.
-
- Information Window:
-
- Julian Date:
- Is the Universal Time written in the Julian calendar, that is
- the number of days occuring from 1-1-4713 B.C. (year 4712 in
- the astronomical use). Is a standard date for astronomical
- calcolous. If you are interested just take a good encyclopedia
- and look for "Julian Date" or "Calendar" or "Date".
-
- Local Time:
- The local time of the Moon in the picture.
-
- Universal Time (UTC or GMT):
- The local time converted in Greenwich Mean Time. Please read
- README.TXT "installation" and "timezone.txt" for more information
- how to set up your environment. You should set the standard
- environment varabile TZ to be sure that the computation of the
- Moon is right.
-
- Age of the Moon:
- The age in Days, houres and minutes from the last New Moon.
-
- Moon phase:
- The percent of the Moon with light! (0%=NEW, 100%=FULL).
-
- Moon's distance:
- The distance of the Moon from the Earth expressed in Km.
-
- Sun's distance:
- The distance of the Sun from the Earth expressed in Km.
-
- Last New Moon,
- First Quarter,
- New Moon,
- Last Quarter,
- Next New Moon:
- The date and time of phases.
-
- Easter:
- The Easter date of the current year. This can be computer
- "only" after 1583 because before it wasn't clear how to
- define the Easter date.
-
- Last Blue Moon,
- Next Blue Moon:
- Date and time of the last and next Blue Moon. The Blue Moon
- is the second full Moon in the same month. Very rare!! Read
- bluemoon.txt for more information.
-
-
- Status Window:
-
- In the first two lines you can see the actual time and date.
- This is not always equal to the Local Time in the information
- window. The information window show information about the Moon
- that you see in the picture, Status window show the state of the
- program and computer. You can change the time/date of the Moon
- that you want to display, but you cannot change the time/date of
- your computer (..of curse you can from the DOS prompt...).
- You can also read, to the right of the time, about your current
- GMT difference setting. Check if is correct referring to the
- timediff.txt file.
-
- Animation:
- Can be ON or OFF. You can turn ON/OFF the animation with
- the [A] key. If the animation is ON the picture will be
- refreshed every X seconds. You can change the X value with
- [+]/[-] keys. In the Actual Moon Mode this is not very useful,
- but in the One Day Step is very interesting to see how the
- Moon change every day. Just read below and everything will
- be clearer.
-
- Delay:
- This is the number of seconds of delay between two subsequent
- refreshes of the Moon if you are in Animation ON mode.
- You can chage it with [+]/[-] keys. The delay can be from 0 sec
- (MAX speed) to 3600 sec. (MIN speed).
-
- Mode:
- ACTUAL MOON: You are in this mode when you start Moon Viewer
- or when you press the [M] key. In this mode you
- are always sure that the Moon on your screen is the
- actual Moon that you can see in your sky!!!
-
- CUSTOM: You are in Custom Mode if you have changed the
- Date/Time of the showed Moon using [D] or [T] keys.
-
- ONE DAY STEP: You are in this mode if you pressed the [S] key.
- In this mode every time that the Moon is refreshed
- the date is increased of one day. You can
- refresh the Moon manually with the [F] key or
- automatically with the Animation ON mode (key [A]).
-
- Picture:
- You can switch the Moon view with the [SPACE] bar:
-
- PHOTO: If you see the photographic picture of the Moon.
- DRAFT: If you see the schematic picture of the Moon.
-
-
- In the little box in the Status window there is a flag that show you
- if Moon Viewer is working. When there is the word "WORK" inside this
- box mean that Moon Viewer is working.
- Note that Moon Viewer don't accept commands when you see the word
- "WORK" in the box.
-
-
- Menu' Window:
-
- The Menu' window show all the possible commands.
-
- Animation related commands:
-
- [A] = Switch Animation ON and OFF. The default is ON
- [+] = Increment the delay of the animation (animation slower).
- [-] = Decrement the delay of the animation (animation faster).
- [F] = Force refresh. To manually force the computation of the Moon.
-
- Mode related commands:
-
- [M] = Switch to actual Moon mode. To show the actual moon.
- [S] = Switch to One Day Step. To show how the Moon change every day.
- [D] = Insert a new Date. This key allow you to specify a date for the
- computation of the Moon datas. A little help window will help
- you to insert a right date.
-
- IMPORTANT:
-
- * Note that the format is DAY-MONTH-YEAR,
- not MONTH-DAY-YEAR as normally used in US.
-
- * Also note that you must specify the FULL year. For example
- 5-1-1996 (5 Jenuary 1996) IS DIFFERENT from 5-1-96 (that
- is 5 Jenuary of year 96 ... about 1900 years ago !!!).
-
- * In the registered you can specify a date from 1-1-9999 B.C.
- to 31-12-9999
- In the not registered version you can specify dates only
- from 1-1-1900
-
- * If you want to specify a date B.C. you have to add
- "bc" after the date. For example 1 jenuary 234 B.C.
- must be written: 1-1-234 bc
-
- * The calendar before 1583 is reported to the actual calendar.
- I don't want to write a story of the calendar, so I do not
- explain what is happened to the calendar in 1583, you can
- find many information about that in any encyclopedia.
-
- [T] = Insert a new time. You must specify the time in 24h full format!
- So to specify 3:35 PM you must type 15:35:00
- Note that the format is HH:MM:SS. To specify 1:10 AM you must
- type: 01:10:00
- Always two digits for houres, two digits for minutes and two
- digits for seconds. You cannot type just 1:10:00
-
- [L] = Switch to Local Time Mode. All times are displayed as local
- time (your time). This is the default.
-
- [U] = Switch to Universal Time Mode. All times are displayed as
- Universal Time. This don't affect the time in the Status window,
- that is always YOUR time.
-
- [C] = To enter in the calendar mode.
-
- Various commands:
-
- [SPACE] = Switch between Photo/Draft picture.
-
- [B] = Write the current Moon picture to a BMP file. If you save a BMP
- the name of the file will be written in the Last Written File
- window.
-
- [ESC] = Return to DOS.
-
-
- The Calendar Mode:
-
- If you enter in the calendar mode a new big window is opened on the
- top of the screen. This window show you the calendar of phases of
- the year showed in the information window. If you want to change
- the date of the calendar you have to use the [D] command of the
- main menu'. For example if you are interested in the calendar of the
- Moon of year 0 you can specify the date 1-1-0 and press [C] to enter
- in calendar mode.
-
- When you enter in calendar mode a new Export menu' window is opened
- and you can choose to export the calendar in BMP, HTML or TXT format.
- Note that the file name of these files is fixed and files are written
- in the Moon Viewer directory. If you export the calendar the name of
- the files will be written in the Last File Written window.
-
- Files names are generated in this format:
-
- MCXXXXAA.EXT
-
- Where: MC is fixed and mean "Moon Calendar".
- XXXX is the calendar year.
- AA is "bc" if the date is B.C. or nothing if is A.C.
- EXT is the extension (HTM, BMP or TXT).
-
- For example HTML calendar of the year 747 B.C. will be
- named MC747BC.HTM
-
- *END*
-