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From: nm@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Nicolas Mercouroff)
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Subject: [astro] MacAstro (Astronomical program for the Macintosh)
Keywords: Macintosh, astronomy, program
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Date: 7 May 91 21:48:04 GMT
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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.

-- 
-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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