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- Short: Great Astronomical Program (39.26)
- Uploader: astegema@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Achim Stegemann)
- Author: astegema@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Achim Stegemann)
- Type: misc/sci
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- Version: 39.26
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- Requires: MC68020/68881
- OS 3.0
- Harddrive (20 MB space)
- 6 MB FastRAM
- MUI 3.8
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- Recommended: MC68040 or MC68060
- OS 3.1
- 16 MB FastRAM
- CyberGfx 2.25+ (=40.113+) or 3.x
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- Additionally recommended:
- * The tower.library by Christoph Feck.
- * The rgfx.datatype by me.
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- IMPORTANT:
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- Digital Almanac 39.26 requires the unpacked data archive of "DAlmanac_Data.lha" 39.12 !!
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- The large star database in the extra archive is for registered users only !!
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- This exe-archive contains an extra installer script for installing the data archive.
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- For complete installation, follow these steps:
- * Download both archives.
- * Unpack the exe archive.
- * Start the exe installer.
- * Start the data installer.
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- A French catalog is available, but not a French documentation, because I don't speak
- French :-).
- The French installer script is only partly in French !
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- INTRODUCTION:
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- Digital Almanac is one of the best programs for hobby astronomers and professionals
- available for the Amiga !
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- It offers:
- * Star database with ca. 500,000 stars up to 16m.
- * Cross-index for SAO, PPM, HD, YBS und GC catalogs.
- * About 40000 deep sky objects (Messier, NGC, IC, UGC, Abell, Zwicky and other misc objects).
- * More than 40000 minor planets and asteroids as well as the
- Comets Halley, Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp.
- * Highly accurate calculation of Moon and planets with JPL's integration tables (DE404).
- Accuracy partly <0.1'' over a period of some thousand years !!
- * Moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
- * Textures for planets Venus to Pluto, Moon and Galilean Moons.
- * Milky way structure.
- * View the sky from any solar system object.
- * Animation mode (also saving in IFF-ANIM format !!).
- * Loading and saving of configuration files.
- * Highly optimized algorithms for maximum speed, mostly written in assembler.
- * Lots of configuration possibilities.
- * Online and menu help with HELP-key and MUI's bubblehelp.
- * Full Drag&Drop support.
- * Creation and export of ephemeris tables.
- * CyberGraphX High- and Truecolor mode support.
- * Picture galery creation.
- * User editable database of orbital elements.
- * Recognizes CPU for maximum speed.
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- And of course lots of bug fixes made in the previous versions.
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- Included in the archive are two project files of a solar and a lunar eclipse ready to watch !
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- THIS PROGRAM IS SHAREWARE!
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- Following features are restricted for non registered users:
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- * Deep-sky catalog access limited to the Messier catalog.
- * All saving functions are disabled.
- * No hardcopy.
- * No changing site to a different planet, only Earth enabled.
- * No detailed course of eclipses.
- * No picture galery.
- * Plotting stars only to 6m.
- * Plotting other objects only to 10m.
- * No changing of pixelsize.
- * No events in the calendar.
- * Ephemeris export only to a window.
- * The program will terminate after 20 min and all 5 min a requester will appear.
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- Read the guide file for more information and how to become a registered user or
- visit my homepage.
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- Internet: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~astegema
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- Changes since 39.22:
- * Added "trigonometric parallax" information for most bright stars to data archive.
- * Reduced memory usage when saving map as RGFX and JPEG.
- * Improved exception handling.
- Lots of messages during startup appeared incorrect.
- * Disables additional gadgets when site is not Earth.
- * Added tooltype CLOSEWB.
- Saves ChipMem for AGA users.
- * Entries of all lists are now draggable.
- * Improved ephemeris output.
- Distances less than 10 million km are displayed in km (mi), not AU.
- * Slightly changed menu layout (more standard).
- * When an asteroid has no defined diameter, it will be estimated from its absolute magnitude.
- * Updated asteroid database. Contains 42239 entries and is now handled dynamically.
- Main program does not need to be reprogrammed.
- * Improved asteroid ephemeris.
- More information on diameter and orbit.
- * More security checks.
- Program will run, even if certain files are missing.
- * The tooltypes SCACHE and ACACHE are replaced by CACHE.
- This gives the user more control about memory consumption.
- * Animation can now trace any object.
- * Drag&Drop code rewritten and fixed many bugs from it.
- * This forced a structure change in project file.
- They are no more 100% compatible to previous versions, but they depend less on current
- installed datas !
- * User files are moved to their own directory called 'User'.
- This simplyfies an update.
- * New font Astro_Fix/11.
- * Ephemeris output uses larger font Astro/11 to improve readability at higher resolutions.
- * Map automatically uses larger font at resolutions higher than 800*600.
- * Export mode didn't recognize magnitude extinction.
- * New aspect ratio calculation.
- Display was distorted when using some CyberGfx resolutions.
- * Speed improvements in MUI's display hooks.
- * Program doesn't need an 'assign' in the User-Startup anymore, because the program makes
- the assign by itself and deletes it when exiting.
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