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READ ME (MacAstro)
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MacAstro 1.3 is a program for astronomy lovers to calculate the
appearance of the sky at any time and any point on earth. It
displays the position of the 8 major planets, the Sun, the Moon, and
1000 brightest astronomical objects (stars and Messier's objects).
These are the main features of the program :
• Full Macintosh interface.
• Background calculations.
• Displays the position of 1010 (1000 stars + 8 planets + Sun + Moon)
objects in the sky, according to the date and place of the
observation.
• Displays the ephemeris of any of the 1010 objects :
• rising/setting/culmination,
• right ascension/declination,
• azimuth/altitude,
• visual magnitude and diameter,
and allows to save it to a text file for the planets, the Sun and
the Moon.
• Displays the phase of the Moon.
• Displays Jupiter and Saturn's satellites position.
• Displays the sidereal time.
• “Planetarium” mode : an animation refreshes regularly the appearance
of the sky (can turn in background under MultiFinder).
• Editable list of most commonly used places of observation.
• Needs a Macintosh Plus or larger and a system 6.0 or later.
Shareware ($20.00 or 120.00 French francs) by Nicolas Mercouroff.