Sky Charts 

The minimum hardware configuration to run this program is: 

CPU       :  Pentium
Memory    :  16 MB  
Free Disk space :  10-130 Mb 
Video     :  640x480 64k colours 
Software  :  Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4

CPU       :  Pentium 166 
Memory    :  32 Mb 
Free Disk space  :  10-130 Mb 
Video     :  600x800 or 1024x768 
Printer   :  Colour 300 dpi

1.     If this is the first installation of Sky Charts, you must create the directory for the package yourself. 
        For example " C:\CIEL "
2.     Copy the self extracting  file to this directory and run it.
        If you install an update, check the box "Overwrite files without prompting".
        You must install all the packages in the same directory.
        It is also possible to indicate the destination directory in the corresponding field.
        Then click  " OK ". 
3.     You can now remove the self extracting file. 
4.     See "lisezmoi.txt ", "readme.txt" or " ciel.hlp " for more information.
        If you create a shortcut for the program " ciel.exe ", you must also specify 
        the installation directory in the " Start in: " field  properties of the shortcut. 
5.     Send me a mail if you have any questions or suggestions.

Initialization:

After installation, the program is configured to use "Bright Stars" as the star catalog. To use other star catalogs you might have installed, it is necessary to launch the program and then click on Catalog Parameters", enter 45 in "Field Min." for " Bright Stars Catalog ". Activate the check box for the new catalog, for example: "Sky2000 ", " Tycho Catalog", " Tycho Input Catalog". Make sure there is no overlap in the "Min. and Max." field width for the catalogs, and indicate 0 for the "Min." of the last catalog entry. If a catalog is installed in another directory, adjust the field " File " to indicate the correct path correspondingly.
You do not have to modify all these parameters immediately after installation, because they can be adjusted later according to your requirements. See the online help for more details of the initialization procedure.

In some peculiar network configuration your modem can dial-up when you start ciel.exe, or your network is not detected and the "Online resources" function stay grayed. To solve this problemes, run "options.exe" and choice "1 Do not control network presence at startup".

Removing the program:

To completely remove this program you have to delete the installation directory and all the subdirectories as well as the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Astro_PC\Ciel.
Use the program "options.exe" choice "3" to remove this registry key.