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- SKYMAP10.ZIP Professional Planetarium Simulator for Microsoft Windows 3.1
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- Introduction
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- SkyMap is a planetarium simulator for Microsoft Windows 3.1. It will draw
- maps of the sky as seen from any place on Earth for any date between 4000BC
- and 8000AD.
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- Unlike some other programs of its kind, SkyMap makes no claims to be
- blindingly fast; the objective when writing it was to achieve high precision,
- rather than high speed. Planetary position, for example, will generally
- agree with those in the "Astronomical Almanac" to within 0.5 seconds of arc.
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- The star database supplied with this version of SkyMap contains 15,931 stars
- down to magnitude 7; registered users will receive a much larger version of
- the database.
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- Installation
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- To install SkyMap, simply copy all the files in this archive into a directory
- on your hard disk, then run the program SKYMAP.EXE.
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- For more information, please refer to the SkyMap manual in file SKYMAP.WRI.
- This file is in "Windows Write" format.
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- Registration
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- SkyMap is ShareWare. You may evaluate it for a period of 30 days. After
- this time, please either pay the modest registration fee, or delete it from
- your computer. Full details of registration are contained in the manual.
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- Notes
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- This is the first public release of SkyMap, and is being release primarily
- for comment, and suggestions as to how it could be improved. I would
- welcome any comments, either positive or negative.
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- Chris Marriott
- 24th January 1993
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- Internet: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk
- BIX/CIX: cmarriott
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