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- Coeli Stella 2000 - DESCRIBE.TXT -
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 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
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.
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.
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.
Distributors are especially asked to avoid the following terms when
describing the Stella 2000 software package:
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..
Non-compliance with this request may invalidate previous license
permissions granted by Swimming Elk Software to the distributor.
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:
STELLA**.ZIP Coeli - Stella 2000
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.).
NOTE: ** denotes current 2-digit version number, ie 10
The Stella 2000 software package may also be distributed without the
2-digit version suffix as
STELLA.ZIP
all other filenames within the archive remaining unchanged.
Keywords:
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astronomy, Windows, Windows 95, planetarium, star chart, star map, ephemeris
Category:
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Educational / Home & Hobby / Recreational / Science / Astronomy
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
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.
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.
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:
http://www.sci.fi/~elk/stelreg.htm
or
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/coeli/stelreg.htm
and follow the links.
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)
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.
For complete user registration information please refer to the file
REGISTER.TXT, or point your browser at one of the Coeli Web sites.
WHO PRODUCED STELLA?
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Swimming Elk Software - a company managed by Roger Hughes.
The company is based in Finland.
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.
Swimming Elk Software swims against the current in another sense, since we are
also committed to producing top quality software at REASONABLE PRICES.
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.
Please feel free to get in touch whenever you have a question, a comment or a complaint.
Roger Hughes
Swimming Elk Software
Manskiventie 1031
16790 Manskivi
Finland
We can also be reached electronically as follows:
CompuServe: 106217,2576
Internet : Swimming.Elk@sci.fi ( preferred method )
For last-minute information, feedback, and support, just point your Web browser at:
http://www.sci.fi/~elk
or
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/coeli
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