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- C O E L I (TM)
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- Stella 2000
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- D E S C R I P T I O N
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- Last updated: October 1999
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- Stella 2000 is...
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- probably the most comprehensive 32-bit astronomy package available
- multi-window for maximum flexibility
- competitively priced
- colorful
- educational
- informative
- encyclopedic
- easy to grasp
- intensively supported (your problems are ours)
- continuously expanding
- part of an extensive line of celestial software that also includes
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- Coeli Gold
- Stella 2000 Extended Edition
- Adastra Special
- QuikSky
- DeskNite
- SkyQuiz Color
- Visual Planets
- The New Windows Dictionary of Astronomy
- Astrogloss A-Z
- My Telescope
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- What better reasons to order your copy now!
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- https://secure.element5.com/register.html?productid=106703 (Coeli Gold $99)
- https://secure.element5.com/register.html?productid=101587 (Stella 2000 Extended Edition $79)
- https://secure.element5.com/register.html?productid=100809 (Stella 2000 $59)
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- OFFICIAL PRODUCT DEFINITION:
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- Fully and continuously functioning evaluation software package distributed
- via shareware channels, hereafter to be designated as Shareware, Shareware
- package, or Stella 2000 software package.
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- For definitions and explanations pertaining to matters of copyright and
- shareware distribution, we would direct you to the files Shr-ware.txt and
- ShareW.txt included as part of the Stella 2000 software package.
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- Employment of any description, including adaptation or paraphrase of
- such, not to be found either in this document, VENDINFO.DIZ,
- or FILE_ID.DIZ, if deemed inappropriate by Coeli Inc, may
- result in the invalidation of license permissions previously granted.
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- Distributors are especially asked to avoid the following terms when
- describing the Stella 2000 software package:
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- free, freeware, free software, public domain, nag, nagware, demo,
- demonstration software, or any other term or phrase which admits of an
- interpretation not in keeping with the official product definition given..
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- Non-compliance with this request may invalidate previous license
- permissions granted by Coeli Inc to the distributor.
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- Distributors may not attribute authorship of the Stella 2000 software
- package to any name but Coeli Inc.
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- Program Information:
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- File Name(s) for BBSs and Internet ftp Sites:
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- The Stella 2000 program package and documentation must reside within
- a single archive file. Please use the following name:
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- STELLA**.ZIP Coeli - Stella 2000
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- If the program is compressed using some other file compression
- method, then please use the name STELLA** with the appropriate
- extension (PAK, ARC, LZH, ZOO, etc.).
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- NOTE: ** denotes current 2-digit version number, ie 10
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- The Stella 2000 software package may also be distributed without the
- 2-digit version suffix as
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- STELLA.ZIP
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- all other filenames within the archive remaining unchanged.
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- Keywords:
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- astronomy, Windows, Windows 95, planetarium, star chart, star map, ephemeris
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- Category:
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- Educational / Science / Astronomy
- Recreational / Home & Hobby / Fun
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- Program Name, Category, Keywords:
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- STELLA 2000 / Coeli - Stella 2000 //
- Educational/Science/Astronomy//
- Recreational/Home & Hobby //
- astronomy / planetarium / star chart / star map / ephemeris / observing log
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- Short Description:
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- Interactive astronomy, a virtual observatory
- in which to explore realistic skies in real
- time, with observing log, list, ephemerides,
- location browser, and sophisticated searches
- embracing the solar system, DSOs, and over
- 15500 stars. Effects include scintillation,
- extinction, refraction, and precession in
- point-source, photoplate, and spotlight
- display modes, with the complete Messier
- catalog in ImageIcons featured as standard.
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- Long Description:
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- CAN YOU READ THE SKY AS EFFORTLESSLY AS YOU CAN READ?
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- Your Virtual Observatory for the Millennium
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- Stella 2000 is new astronomical software for the PC which runs in all
- 32-bit flavours of Windows. Stella generates highly realistic views of
- the heavens in real time as observed from anywhere in the world.
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- Think of it as your virtual observatory. Stella is nothing less than a
- simulation of the stars in their courses as seen from Earth, and has the
- capacity to transform you into an expert on the skies.
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- Explore realistic skies in real time, complete with observing log, list,
- live ephemeris, location browser, and a sophisticated search embracing
- planets, comets, DSOs, and over 15500 stars.
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- Choose between 4 different celestial projections and observe from between
- 0-90 degrees of elevation and 0-360 degrees of the compass in either
- resizeable windows or in a faithful full-screen mode.
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- Advance, retard, or animate the simulation's clock by years, months, days,
- and minutes of both sidereal or solar time.
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- Stella builds upon the uniqueness and verisimilitude of its precursor
- Coeli - Electric Planisphere to bring effects such as scintillation,
- refraction, extinction, and precession in point-source, spotlight, and
- the new photoplate display modes. Subtler color gradations accurately
- reflect a star's true character, and the complete Messier catalog in
- ImageIcons features as an integral part of this new package, crowned by
- the facility to record and plan your real-sky observations quickly and
- conveniently.
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- The sky and the ephemerides may be printed in either mono or color, with
- both horizon and equatorial grids, aequator, ecliptic, horizon,
- constellation lines, names, boundaries and legends.
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- Depend on Stella's data quality and extendability. In the final analysis,
- an astronomical application stands or falls by the quality of its data,
- and Stella 2000's sources are second to none. The starting point is the
- much relied-upon Harvard Revised Catalog (Hoffleit & Warren, 1991), an
- incomparable source of details on 10000 or so naked eye stars down to
- magnitude 6.5. A permanent level-one database, the Bright Star Catalog is
- present in both the shareware and registered versions of Stella 2000,
- supplemented by a 7000 star selection from the ultra-modern ESA Hipparcos
- satellite sky survey, bringing Stella's basic population to almost 16000
- stars.
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- For telescopic and binocular observers, we begin to climb the ladder of
- Stella's Hipparcos data extensions, all the way from magnitude 7.0
- to those stars beyond magnitude 9 resolvable by more powerful amateur
- telescopes. The SAO and Hipparcos extensions are tiered in batches of
- 25000 stars, and may be obtained both complete or in parts and loaded at
- your discretion. Stella's current star capacity thus reaches a
- more-than-respectable 1 million.
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- Registration Information:
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- Our newest registration service is online ordering via our WWW site
- (all major credit cards accepted). Simply navigate to one of the
- following:
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- http://www.coeli.com
- http://www.stella2000.com
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- and follow the links.
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- A convenient registration facility is available from within Stella
- itself. The file REGISTER.FRM (registration form) is also included
- amongst Stella's files. If you decide to order online via credit
- card, you may also e-mail us your completed registration form.
- (attached, for example, using MIME)
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- Registration brings lifetime support by mail, time-shift animations,
- the Complete Messier Catalog in ImageIcons, automatic eligibility for
- future upgrades, the capacity to load up to 1 million more stars, and removal of
- registration reminder screens. Registered copies are also customised to load
- the user's preferred settings and home location at startup.
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- For complete user registration information please refer to the file
- REGISTER.TXT, or point your browser at one of the Coeli Web sites.
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- Please feel free to get in touch whenever you have a question, a comment or a complaint.
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- Coeli Software Products
- Bahnhofstrasse 58
- CH-8001 Zurich
- Switzerland
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- We can also be reached electronically as follows:
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- Internet : contact@coeli.com
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- For last-minute information, feedback, and support, just point your Web
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- http://www.coeli.com
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