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- Startronics- Scientific Collection 1 (Astronomy)- Release 1.0 June '91
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- Welcome to the first release of EdLib's Scientific Collection disk no 1,
- Astronomy. The Scientific Collection is part of an ongoing project to
- collect freely redistributable programs from particular areas of scientific
- interest, and present them all grouped together. This disk consists mainly
- of programs, listed below, relating to various aspects of heavenly bodies.
- There are many good astronomical programs in the Public Domain; look out
- for Scientific Collection 2 (Astronomy), which deals mainly with the subject
- of gravity and Scientific Collection 3 (Chemistry), both due out in July '91.
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- The following are on this disk:
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- AMIGAZER: This program will compute a graphical representation of the night
- sky for any date, time or latitude, using a database of 1573 stars. It will
- give you information on selected stars just by clicking the mouse on them.
- You even have the option of seeing the constellation to which stars belong.
- This is a lovely little program, but has a few quirks which you will have to
- put up with. You must run it from the CLI, after you have set the current
- directory to :Amigazer. This is so that the program can find its data. Also,
- have a little patience while it is computing, it's worth the wait.
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- PLANETS: This program computes the location of the planets and the phases of
- the moon for an arbitrary day and time. By default, it will compute them for
- the time on your system clock.
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- ORBIT: This keeps a database of some 130 satellites and plots their ground
- trace on a map of the earth for a given date and time. An update to its data
- is available constantly through the Compuserve net.
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- CM: This is a program for modelling celestial mechanics. It has a nice
- Intuition interface that allows easy entry of all the data, which is then
- presented as an animation following the gravitational interactions of the
- specified bodies. Setups can also be saved to disk so that you can re-enact
- interesting scenarios.
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- STARPROBE: This program computes a mathematical model of a star's interior,
- from information you give it. It runs from the CLI.
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