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From: miracle@sctc.com (Barry Miracle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Distant Suns ( It simulated a reasl eclipse!!)
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.160101.11783@sctc.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 16:01:01 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.103228.23698@actrix.gen.nz>
Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation
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keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) writes:

>I own Distant Suns 3.0c.1 and today Wednesday 16th I was able to view
>here in New Zealand an annular eclipse of the Sun. Well I thought
>Distant Suns should be able to replicate this given the right latitude,
>longitude, date and time. So tonight I put the info into the programme,
>selected the telescope option and whammo a pretty good representation of
>the eclipse I had just seen six hours ago. Well done Mike.
>Anyone I would recommend this programme to anyone. Of course it goes
>much better on my new hard drive along with the Deep Space expansion
>disk. 
>PS It there a later version out. There are a couple of odd occurrences
>when I select a few esoteric modes.

I am curious, can you save the pictures generated in IFF so that they
could be viewed by a standard viewing program.

Barry Miracle