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VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 12-Apr-2001
===== Product Information ==============================
Product: Coeli - Stella 2000 Virtual Observatory
Version: 5.02
Version Date: 5-Apr-2001
Product Type: Software
Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
Shareware, subject to distribution restrictions
Product Description: Interactive astronomy, a virtual observatory
in which to explore realistic skies in real
time, with observing log, list, ephemerides,
location browser, and sophisticated searches
embracing the solar system, DSOs, and over
15500 stars. Effects include scintillation,
extinction, refraction, and precession in
point-source, photoplate, and spotlight
display modes. Now integrates Solar Guide(tm)
and the Concise HTML Dictionary of Astronomy.
Reason for version: Maintenance Update
Category: Home & hobby; Astronomy
Keywords: astronomy, planetarium, star map, observing
log, sky, planet, DSO, comet, Window
Required Packages: ASTEL502
This Package: ASTEL502
Registration Fee: 59.00-79.00 (USD)
Required Configuration
Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80486)
Clock Speed: 166 MHz
Minimum OS: Windows 95
Standard RAM: 8000K
Hard Drive Space: 3000K
Required:
Floating Point Unit
Hard drive
Color monitor
Mouse
Won't Work With:
Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA)
Hercules Graphics Card
Tandy Display Adapter
Color Graphic Adapter (CGA)
Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA)
Multi-Color Graphics Array (MCGA)
Multi-Color Graphics Array 256 (MCGA 256)
Video Graphics Array (VGA)
Orders:
Address: Coeli Software Products
Bahnhofstrasse 58
CH-8001 Zurich
Switzerland
Toll-Free Phone: 1-800-903-4152
Phone: +49 221 2407278
FAX: +49 221 2407279
Internet: contact@coeli.com
Other E-mail: http://www.coeli.com
Support:
Address: Coeli Software Products
Bahnhofstrasse 58
CH-8001 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone: contact@coeli.com
FAX: contact@coeli.com
BBS Name: Virtual Observatory Lounge
BBS Phone: www.coeli.com
Internet: contact@coeli.com
Other E-mail: http://www.coeli.com
===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
CAN YOU READ THE SKY AS EFFORTLESSLY AS YOU CAN READ?
Your Virtual Observatory for the Millennium
Stella 2000 is new astronomical software for the PC which runs in all
32-bit flavours of Windows. Stella generates highly realistic views of
the heavens in real time as observed from anywhere in the world.
Think of it as your virtual observatory. Stella is nothing less than a
simulation of the stars in their courses as seen from Earth, and has the
capacity to transform you into an expert on the skies.
Explore realistic skies in real time, complete with observing log and
list facility, live ephemeris, location browser, and a sophisticated
search embracing planets, comets, DSOs, and over 15500 stars.
Choose between 4 different celestial projections and observe from
between 0-90 degrees of elevation and 0-360 degrees of the compass in
either resizeable windows or in a faithful full-screen mode.
Advance, retard, or animate the simulation's clock by years, months,
days, and minutes of both sidereal or solar time.
Stella builds upon the uniqueness and verisimilitude of its precursor
Coeli - Electric Planisphere to bring effects such as scintillation,
refraction, extinction, and precession in point-source, spotlight, and
the new photoplate display modes. Subtler color gradations accurately
reflect a star's true character, and the complete Messier catalog in
ImageIcons features as an integral part of this new package, crowned by
the facility to record and plan your real-sky observations quickly and
conveniently.
The sky and the ephemerides may be printed in either mono or color, with
both horizon and equatorial grids, aequator, ecliptic, horizon,
constellation lines, names, boundaries and legends.
An astronomical application stands or falls by the quality of its data,
and Stella 2000's sources are second to none. The starting point is the
much relied-upon Harvard Revised Catalog (Hoffleit & Warren,1991), an
incomparable source of details on 10000 or so naked eye stars down to
magnitude 6.5. A permanent level-one database, the Bright Star Catalog is
present in both the shareware and registered versions of Stella 2000,
supplemented by a 7000 star selection from the ultra-modern ESA Hipparcos
satellite sky survey, bringing Stella's basic population to almost 16000
stars.
For telescopic and binocular observers, we begin to climb the ladder of
Stella's optional data extensions, all the way from magnitude 7.0 to
those stars beyond magnitude 9 resolvable by more powerful amateur
telescopes. The SAO and Hipparcos extensions are tiered in batches of
25000 stars, and may be purchased and loaded at your discretion.
Stella's star capacity thus reaches a more-than-respectable 1 million.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
What do you need to run Stella 2000?
Minimum System
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Stella can be installed on any IBM compatible PC with a 486 DX processor
or higher running Windows 95, 98, or NT. The more video and conventional
RAM you have, the better - 1 Mb or more for the former, and at least 8Mb
of the latter.
Please note that although Stella will load and run on the stated minimum
system, operations -- especially load times -- will be slow. We make no
apologies for this: Stella is an advanced planetarium system containing
more celestial objects and graphics than average and, in order to
achieve such excellence, speed optimizations were inevitably among the
first things to be sacrificed. Therefore we here suggest a more
practical minimum system for running Stella as an Intel Pentium 166 with
16Mb of RAM.
Recommended System
------------------
The recommended system for running Stella 2000 is a Pentium 200 or
higher with 32 Mb of RAM and a graphics card equipped with at least 2 Mb.
Additionally, Stella requires that your Windows display be in either
Hi-color or Truecolor mode, at a resolution of at least 800x600 pixels.
The optimum screen resolution for Stella is 1024x768. Please note that a
display of only 256 colours is bound to be a disappointment.
If your video subsystem is not up to displaying in at least
Hi-color at 800x600, we would strongly recommend purchase of our
slightly less demanding Coeli - Electric Planisphere, with which Stella
2000 is maintaining full compatibility. Just point your Web browser at
http://www.coeli.com
for details.
===== Packing List =====================================
As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
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READ_ME.1ST 2455 11-Oct-2000 04:50a 9B4CBDEB
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INSTALL.TXT 4122 11-Oct-2000 04:50a FE754DF7
README.TXT 25741 11-Oct-2000 04:50a D3DA3680
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HOMEPAGE.URL 45 11-Oct-2000 04:50a A5748C81
UPDATES.URL 74 11-Oct-2000 04:50a E39BB994
===== Installation =====================================
INSTALLING COELI - STELLA 2000
------------------------------
Windows automatic installation
------------------------------
Your Stella package is installed simply by double clicking on
the file SETUP.EXE once you have unzipped the contents of
Stella.zip to a folder of your choosing.
We recommend the excellent WinZip utility for unpacking
Stella's main .zip archive. You can get the latest version
of Winzip from
http://www.winzip.com
If you have not already done so, we would additionally
recommend that, prior to running SETUP.EXE, you use Explorer
to create a new folder called Astronomy inside the Windows 95
Start Menu folder. Just navigate to Windows\Start Menu and
click with the right mouse button on some unoccupied space in
Explorer's right-hand window. You'll see a popup menu, one of
whose options will be |New|. Select |Folder| from the submenu,
and name it 'Astronomy' or some other appropriate title. After
setup, you will be able to manually move the shortcut named
Stella 2000 into this new folder for a tidier and more compact
Start menu.
Tip: when in doubt about the Win95 Explorer's file-listing,
just press [F5] to refresh its display. Very often, an item you
thought wasn't there will magically appear!
NB: IF INSTALLING OVER A PRIOR VERSION OF STELLA (WHETHER
TRIAL OR REGISTERED), FIRST COPY ANY OBSERVATION LOG FILES
(.STL) TO A SAFE PLACE BEFORE PROCEDING WITH THE REMOVAL OF
THE OLD VERSION VIA THE CONTROL PANEL.
WHEN YOU HAVE REMOVED THE OLD INSTALLATION, YOU MAY THEN
CONFIDENTLY PROCEED WITH THE SETUP OF THE NEW VERSION OF
STELLA 2000, FINALLY COPYING BACK THE LOG FILES WHEN THIS HAS
COMPLETED TO YOUR SATISFACTION.
THE SETUP UTILITY LEAVES ALL PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED FILES OF THE
SAME NAME INTACT, SO WITHOUT FIRST REMOVING THE LAST
INSTALLATION, A NEW COPY OF THE PACKAGE CANNOT BE INSTALLED.
Stella may be uninstalled at any time simply by opening
Control Panel from the Settings entry in your Start Menu, and
double- clicking on the item Add/Remove Programs. You will be
shown a list of programs currently installed on your system,
from which you should select the item 'Stella 2000' for
automatic removal.
The complete Stella 2000 package contains a number of text
files, all designed to help you get started with the minimum
of fuss. Have a browse through any item with the .TXT or .RTF
extension if you've the time. Some of these will necessitate
the selection of |Word Wrap| in Notepad or whichever text
editor you elect to view them in.
If you encounter a serious installation problem, please do not
hesitate to get in touch.
E-mail: contact@coeli.com
http://www.coeli.com
http://pluto.beseen.com/boardroom/l/21885
===== Warranty =========================================
***************** IMPORTANT WARRANTY INFORMATION ****************
All Coeli Software Products
*** PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY ***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TRIAL USE (SHAREWARE EVALUATION VERSION) WARRANTY DISCLAIMER:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH THE END USER. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE
PROVE DEFECTIVE, THE USER ASSUMES THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
REPAIR OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR
ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY REDISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE TO THE USER
FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA, DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION,
BUSINESS INTERRUPTIONS, LOSS SUSTAINED BY THE USER OR THIRD PARTIES,
OR A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE)
EVEN IF THE AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
REGISTERED VERSION ONLY WARRANTY:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Coeli Inc warrants the physical CD-R media
occasionally provided with registered versions to be free of defects
in materials and workmanship for a period of ninety days
from the date of registration. If Coeli Inc receives
notification within the warranty period of defects in materials
or workmanship, and such notification is determined by
Coeli Inc to be correct, Coeli Inc will
replace the defective media.
The entire and exclusive liability and remedy for breach of this
Limited Warranty shall be limited to replacement of defective
CD-R media and shall not include or extend to
any claim for or right to recover any other damages, including
but not limited to, loss of profit, data, or use of the software,
or special, incidental, or consequential damages or other similar
claims, even if Coeli Inc has been specifically advised
of the possibility of such damages. In no event will Coeli Inc's
liability for any damages to you or any other person
ever exceed the lower of suggested list price or actual price
paid for the license to use the software, regardless of any form
of the claim.
Coeli Inc SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
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Coeli Inc WILL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ISSUE MONETARY REFUND
OF THE PURCHASE PRICE OF ANY OF ITS REGISTERED SOFTWARE PRODUCTS.
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===== License for Use and Distribution =================
For general license terms, please see the file License.txt included with
the distribution archive.
- Coeli ~ Stella 2000 - SYSOP.TXT Extract -
C O E L I (tm)
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STELLA 2000
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Internet f t p I N F O R M A T I O N
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Last updated: January, 2000
For our full distribution license terms for Webmasters, please see the
file Sysop.txt included with the program archive. The following extract
is for purposes of summary and convenience only.
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Internet Distribution Requirements:
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Limited Distribution License:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As the exclusive copyright holder for Stella 2000, Coeli Inc
authorizes online distribution solely in accordance with
the following conditions.
o The Stella 2000 package - including all related program, data,
and documentation files - CANNOT be modified in any way
and must be distributed as a complete package,
without exception. VENDINFO.DIZ contains a list
of all files which form part of the Coeli package.
o ZDNet and similar editorialized online distributors may post
this version of the package only on condition that the
existing star rating remains unaltered and the download counter
for this program is not reset.
o Coeli Inc prohibits the distribution of outdated
versions of the Stella 2000 shareware package.
o Licensee shall not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify,
decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or
transfer the licensed program or its related files
except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized
use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of
this license.
All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Coeli Inc.
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