nm@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Nicolas Mercouroff) (05/08/91)
Archive-name: sci/astro/macastro/1991-04-30
Archive: sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/app/mac-astro-13.hqx [36.44.0.6]
Original-posting-by: nm@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Nicolas Mercouroff)
Original-subject: MacAstro (Astronomical program for the Macintosh)
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
Dear astronomers,
For those of you who have a Macintosh and wish to use it for their hobby,
a new program for Macintosh plus or larger is available in the news-group
`comp.binary.mac', under the name ``MacAstro 1.3.1''. It is a program I
wrote, and which is distributed as a shareware ($20.00 or 120.00 French
francs). To download it, just subscribe to the group comp.binary.mac, and
save the 6 parts of MacAstro. Then with a text editor merge the 6 parts in
one, removing the headers and footers of each part: just keep everything
between:
[MacAstro 1.3.1 - part # of 6]
---
and
--- end of part # ---
excluded.
Then with have any compression utilities for the Macintosh (StuffIt,
Compactor etc...), just un-BinHex and un-StuffIt it, et voila !
NOTE: The program is also available via ftp on sumex-aim.stanford.edu, login
anonymous, under /info-mac/app/mac-astro-13.hqx
Herewith a short description of the features of the program :
+----------------+
| MacAstro 1.3 |
+----------------+
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 :
o Full Macintosh interface.
o Background calculations.
o Displays the position of 1010 (1000 stars + 8 planets + Sun + Moon)
objects in the sky, according to the date and place of the
observation.
o 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.
o Displays the phase of the Moon.
o Displays Jupiter and Saturn's satellites position.
o Displays the sidereal time.
o "Planetarium" mode : an animation refreshes regularly the appearance
of the sky (can turn in background under MultiFinder).
o Editable list of most commonly used places of observation.
o Needs a Macintosh Plus or larger and a system 6.0 or later.
Shareware ($20.00 or 120.00 French francs) by Nicolas Mercouroff.
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-Nicolas Mercouroff nm@cs.brandeis.edu
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02154
My home: P.O. Box 390929, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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