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- Stella 2000
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- D E S C R I P T I O N A N D
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- C O M P A N Y I N F O R M A T I O N
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- Last updated: December, 1997
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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 Swimming Elk Software, 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 Swimming Elk Software to the distributor.
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- Distributors may not attribute authorship of the Stella 2000 software
- package to any name but Swimming Elk Software.
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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 / Home & Hobby / Recreational / Science / Astronomy
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- Program Name, Category, Keywords:
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- STELLA 2000 / Coeli - Stella 2000 //
- Educational/Recreational/Home & Hobby //
- astronomy / planisphere / planetarium / star chart / star map / ephemeris
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- Short Description:
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- Stella 2000 - 32-bit Windows astronomy.
- Realistic skies in real time, complete with
- observing log, live ephemeris, location
- browser, and a sophisticated search embracing
- planets, comets, DSOs, and over 9000 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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- Stella 2000 - 32-bit Windows astronomy. Explore realistic skies in real
- time, complete with observing log, live ephemeris, location browser, and a
- sophisticated search embracing planets, comets, DSOs, and over 9000 stars.
- Choose between 4 different celestial projections to mould the night sky to
- your preference, and observe from between 0-90 degrees of elevation and
- 0-360 degrees of the compass in either a resizeable window or in a faithful
- full-screen mode. Advance, retard, or animate the simulation's clock by
- years, months, days, minutes, and seconds of both sidereal or solar time.
- Stella builds upon the unique aspects 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 the new package, which is crowned by the
- facility to record your real-sky observations quickly and conveniently as
- and when you make them. Both the sky and the ephemerides may be printed in
- either mono or colour, with both horizon and equatorial grids, aequator,
- ecliptic, horizon, constellation lines, names, boundaries and legends.
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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.sci.fi/~elk/stelreg.htm
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- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/coeli/stelreg.htm
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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 7000 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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- WHO PRODUCED STELLA?
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- Swimming Elk Software - a company managed by Roger Hughes.
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- The company is based in Finland.
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- At Swimming Elk Software service and support take precedence.
- This pledge is fundamental to our approach to product development, production,
- and marketing. Although we are proud to be a member of the Association of
- Shareware Professionals, unlike the current consensus in the ASP, we DO NOT
- COUNTENANCE CRIPPLING. We intend to go on offering fully -- and continuously --
- functioning programs for our potential customers to evaluate at their leisure.
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- Swimming Elk Software swims against the current in another sense, since we are
- also committed to producing top quality software at REASONABLE PRICES.
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- These tenets, we believe, are and always have been fundamental to the shareware
- ideal, indeed the ONLY things setting true shareware apart from the mere commercial
- demo.
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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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- Roger Hughes
- Swimming Elk Software
- Manskiventie 1031
- 16790 Manskivi
- Finland
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- We can also be reached electronically as follows:
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- CompuServe: 106217,2576
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- Internet : Swimming.Elk@sci.fi ( preferred method )
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- For last-minute information, feedback, and support, just point your Web browser at:
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- http://www.sci.fi/~elk
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- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/coeli
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