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- JUPITER 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 Galelean moons of Jupiter. Also shown are the
- position angle and distance from the planet of each of the moons at the
- time displayed, as well as eclipses, transits, and even moon shadows!
-
- 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 JUPMOONS 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 JUPMOONS 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
- SATMOONS. Enjoy them!
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