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Version 3.0
First of distributed
Version 3.1
- New "Conic" sky projection added
- New button "Rising/Setting" added into the window of object information
- New "Find star" dialog box added to search a star by it's name
- New menu item added for quick view of information of an additional objects
- While parameters of a fixed object are being changed, you may select the epoch
of it's coordinaties
- Some small interface changes are implemented
- Some bugs are corrected (including erroneous work with dates before 1900)
Version 3.11
- "Conic" projection is slightly changed
Version 4.0
- Constellation lines added
- 110 deep-sky objects (galaxies, nebulae, star clusters) added
- Calculation of star proper motions added
- Background color may be changed during sunset/sunrise
- Autorotation mode added
- Interface changed essentially
- Program can be installed with full registration and possibility of
uninstallation
- Improved speed of catalog loading
- File of settings made as standard ini-file
- Maximum zoom 600%
- Time zone may have a fractional part
- Many impovements introduced in program code
- Few other small interface changes implemented
- Few small bugs corrected
Version 4.1
- Coordinate grid added
- List of cities added (Longitude, Latitude and Time Zone)
- Some interface changes (selection North/South latitude, East/West
Longitude, etc. instead of positive/negative values)
- Proper names of bright stars may be drawn directly on the sky image
- Moon image is more noticeable now
- Using of B.C. years corrected: now "zero" year is absent and negative
values correspond to B.C. years
- Bug corrected: possibility of non-coordination between printed and visible
on screen sky regions
- Some other small bugs are corrected