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SATURN MOONS PROGRAM
Public Domain astronomy software from Germany writen by A. Pikhard,
and sent to me here in the United States by Jost Jahn. This document
and upload to Compuserve by Robert Reeves, CIS 72377,2576
This is an excelent graphic display program for simulating the
orbital motion of the moons of Saturn and the seasonal tilt of the
planet's rings. Also shown are the position angle and distance from the
planet of each of the moons at the time displayed durring the
simulation.
THIS PROGRAM IS MONOCHROME ONLY!
*** BUT ***
FOR YOU POOR SOULS LIKE ME WHO CAN'T AFFORD TWO MONITORS
A MONOCHROME EMULATOR PROGRAM IS INCLUDED IN THIS FOLDER
If the MONOWARE program is used to run SATMOONS on a color monitor,
(On my machine anyway) it seems to work best if the monochrome emulator
is booted from a separate disk than the SATMOONS disk. Copy it onto
another disk and delete it from your program disk. The MONOWARE program
is unstable and may take several attempts to get it to boot up. If the
program bombs, you have to reset your computer before trying to reboot
or it will not work (Don't ask me why, that's just the nature of the
beast!)
Another stumbling block about this program is that all the menus
are in German. However, the program is entirely mouse and menu driven,
so a little playing with it will quickly clue you in on what the meaning
of what the program prompts are asking for.
To help a little bit, the following are what I have deduced the
menus are requesting----
The menu bar at the top of the screen
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
EINGABE ANZEIGEN (5) FELD PROGRAMM
(1) DATUM UND UHRZEIT (3) EINZELBILD (6) BEENDEN
(2) BEWEGUNGSPARAMETER (4) BEWEGUNGSABLAUF
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) Sets the DATE and HOUR desired for the simulation
(2) Sets the total time run for the simulation and the time jump
interval between the program calculations updates.
(3) Writes the selected DATE and HOUR into the program.
(4) Runs the program for the interval set in (2).
(5) Sets the apparent field of view.
(6) Exits program to desktop.
After the program has run for the selected time interval, the menu
bar can be retrieved by clicking either mouse button.
Other similar planetary and moon motion simulators for the ATARI ST
uploaded to Compuserve were: PLNETFAZ, URAMOONS, MARSMOON, NEPTMOON, and
JUPMOONS. Enjoy them!