Probably the most extensive Astronomy program for the Series 3a.
Yale Star Database.
Full Messier Coverage
Ephemeris
Reference Star DataBase
Constellation Lines
Lots of beautiful pictures and speech
INSTALLING PROCYON
Procyon Requires a Psion 3a, and approximately 128k free system-
memory to run in.
*NOTE* for upgraders from versions prior to and including 1.11:
Files are now being placed in a different directory.
Probably the best thing to do is, copy any personalized
event.dbf and Multiple-Tracking file to a save location and
erase the old copy, and re-install this new version.
*NOTE* All previously registered users can obtain a free copy
of the 1.11 Pro version just by writing us.
Copy Procyon.Opa to an \APP or an \APP\PROCYON directory.
Copy the rest of the files to an \APP\PROCYON directory.
It doesn't matter whether these directories are in RAM or on Flash,
because Procyon only reads this files.
Just watch out that the Procyon.* files are on the same disk, the
other files may be split among multiple drives.
The following files are absolutely required to run Procyon Light:
Procyon.opa (Main Program)
Procyon.ovl (Overlay File)
Procyon.grp (Graphic File)
These files should be put together in the same directory:
Yale .bin (Yale Database of stars)
Messier.bin (Messier-objects Database)
We strongly suggest that you also include these files:
Moon .pic (Used for building Moon-phase)
Star .pic (Used by Intro-screen)
Jovian .pic (Used to show Jovian Moons)
The following files are optional:
* .pic (Graphics used by Procyon)
Every Pic file can be left out.
* .wve (sound files used by Procyon)
Event .dbf (Event Base)
Mplan .bin (Asteroids and Comets)
Conline.bin (Constellations Lines)
Procyon.hlp (Help-file support, should be on Procyon.opa disk)
Please read the Help-file for further information.
If you decide to remove Procyon (shame on you!), please be aware that
procyon automatically has created a small file called Procyon.Cfg in
the \OPD directory of you Internal drive. Deleting this file, erasing
the \APP\PROCYON directory, and removing the icon from the system-
screen completely removes Procyon.
REMARKS...
Sometimes it is necessary to set your decimal-separator to Dot;
especially if you use an European Psion, Procyon will not warn you
to set the separator to Dot !
If you don't use a decimal separator in Event.dbf or the Multiple
Object Tracking file, you probably will not need to change anything.
You may wish to grab the Procyon screen as a standard Psion PICture-
file. That is possible by pressing Control+Shift+Psion 'S' together.
A file called Screen.Pic will appear in the root of your internal
disk. Using the different editor programs you can edit or print it.
Please don't try to reverse engineer Procyon, we will not try to stop
you, but if you like some information on the inner-workings of
Procyon, just get in touch with us.
Thanks to all the testers and contributers out there, who have
supplies ideas, support, bug-reports and other usefull stuff.
Especially we would like to thank:
Eberhard Rompf, John Gilbert, Atilla Kovacs-Birkas and Robert Mann
for their support.
If you got any questions, suggestions, want more technical
information or just want to congratulate us,
we can be reached at:
Snail Mail
Electronic Mail
Vampire Vengeance Fido Point 2:500/290.7
c/o Bunderstraat 203
Sussenbach@med.ruu.nl
6231 EK Meerssen Compuserve: 100561,122
The Netherlands
REGISTRATION VIA COMPUSERVE...
Procyon Light is free for non-commercial use.
But you could consider registering via CompuServe for the amount of US$ 20 plus handling and shipping costs ($2 for Europe and $3 for USA). Use command GO SWREG and register for Procyon Light Version 1.11 Registration # 6143 and you will receive by diskette the Proccyon Pro version.
These are the added feautures and bonussed of Procyon Pro
+ Yale Star Database expanded to Magnitude 5 (1650+ Stars)
+ Full NGC coverage and search options (7800+ Objects)
+ Reference Star Database up to Magnitude 7 ! (5800+ Stars)
+ More than 750 Comets and Minor-planets.
+ Adjustable precision Low, Medium and High.
The Light version is fixed to Medium.
Switching to Low, ensures fast redraws and calculations for
a quick glance at the sky.
High precision-mode among other things take into account:
Precession, Ecliptic Movement, Parallax and more than 220
tuned pertuberations. Planetary precision is well within
1 arc-minute !
+ Bonus pictures of all 110 Messier-Nebula, choose one and see
how it looks like.
+ A clear conscience and good karma.
REVISION LIST
Items flagged with [PRO] are only available if you use the
Professional version of Procyon.
New in Procyon 1.02
Updated Messier.Dbf, had some anomalies.
Problems fixed within Yale.Dbf search routine.
[PRO] Pictures of ALL Messier Items (110 pictures) optional.
[PRO] Faster Calculation in High Precision Mode.
[PRO] Enhanced precision of Planetary-Positions.
New in Procyon 1.03
Rebuild with current or set time.
Summer time combined with Date & Time.
Implemented Cursor-speed up with the Psion key.
Re-arranged Menu-items and added some nice lines.
More Preferences (Still working on them)
Grid added.
Graphic display of the Planet-Magnitude over the current year added.
New Items in Procyon Pro 1.11
sseldorf and other cities with an Umlaut could not be chosen;
this is now fixed.
Conversion of Yale.dbf, NGC.dbf, Messier.dbf, Refstar.dbf, Mplan.dbf
to Binary files. You cannot edit these files yourself, but they have
the advantage of smaller file-size and faster file-access.
All files group together in any \APP\PROCYON directory so they don't
cluther your system-screen (DATA / RECORD) anymore.
Problem fixed with occasional Grey text instead of Black.
(This is really a Problem in OPL !)
User-defined location option aded.
Places are now retrieved from the World-application, which has the
advantage of more places, correct spelling and there's no need to
use Places.dbf anymore.
Fixed problem with Eventbase residing on Flash. (Write-protect error).
Quick finding options added in both Messier and Starname.
Constellation-lines added.
Fixed and expanded the Yale.Bin file, more usefull information.
Fixed some problems with rise or set-times of the Sun.
[PRO] Expanded Minor-Planets Database (Mplan.Bin) to 750+ Objects.
FUTURE EXPANSIONS
We are adding more graphs or diagrams.
We thinking of:
Graph of planetary Distance from Earth,
Graph of angular size seen from Earth, etc.
Adding the Milky way.
Possibly Constellation-bounderies
Much more, just contact us, because it's your feedback we'll use !
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