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Windows : Celestial Maps v.10 Released |
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on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 02:16 PM GMT - 14497 Reads
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Celestial Maps is an accurate charting Windows software mapping large, small and very small astronomical charts under five projections. Since its just released version 10, it runs 20 astronomical catalogues, organized in three database categories...
Two major new functions have been introduced in the present version.
The first is a new database category, Online Database, querying via VizieR service the largest four catalogs available today: 2MASS point sources, GSC 2.2, USNO-A2 and USNO-B. Moreover, the Digitized Sky Survey atlas images, both first and second generation, can be overlayed on the charts by automate querying to CADC or STScI servers.
The second improvement is a Numeric Integrator module based on OrbFit package of Milani et al (2003) which provides accurate sub-arcsec ephemerides for the minor planets, necessary for very small fields, also for more distant epochs.
Other new functions were added to facilitate navigation, such as: Run Atlas (for automate execution of an atlas in Equatorial and Zenithal Projections), Back/Forward maps (similar to an internet browser), Up/Down/Left/Right neighbours of a given field, Load Last map (from the previous session), etc.
A few minor bugs were fixed and some parameter constraints opened, for more flexibility.
Started in 1992, Celestial Maps has been developed by three Romanian professional astronomers and programmers now living in Canada, France and Romania. Reaching about 40,000 lines of code at present version, the software has been written in Turbo Pascal 6 & 7 (v. 1-5 for MSDOS, 1992-1996) and Delphi 4 (v. 7-10 for Windows, 1999-2005).
Celestial Maps website:
http://www.geocities.com/ovidiuv/maps.html
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