For technical assistance with Deepsky 2000, please either email me a note or call me on the phone during the evening (after 6pm CST).
Steven S Tuma
1425 Greenwich Ln
Janesville, WI 53545
(608) 752-8366
stuma@inwave.com
http://www.deepsky2000.com
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE
Deepsky 2000 Version 2 Release Notes
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1. FIXED: When entering a personal observing location, entering quotes or double quotes caused the location entry to not be added to the list.
2. FIXED: The date is shown incorrectly on the logbook entry screen if you were jumping from the logbook spreadsheet. Jumping from the logbook spreadsheet is done either by double clicking the row, or by selecting VIEW EDIT LOGBOOK FOR SELECTED OBJECT.
3. FIXED: If the log entry screen is already loaded when you jump from the logbook spreadsheet, the object selected on the spreadsheet will not be shown on the logbook entry screen.
4. FIXED: The daylight savings checkbox had no effect if you live in the southern hemisphere.
5. FIXED: CD ROM users would get an error message and crash when going into Database Sources under the HELP menu.
6. UPDATED: Latitude and Longitude in the status bar now show as hms instead of as a decimal. Also added time zone next to the longitude
7. FIXED: Using the ACP driver, Deepsky would send an incorrect value for declination when declination < 0.
8. ENHANCED: The digital sky survey and Sky rover sketches link to the Internet now launches the default webbrowser to display the image. This now works with any browser and not just IE
9. FIXED: In Sync Internet Time, The time server mit.edu was hard coded into Deepsky. You could change the server to another name but Deepsky always reverted back to mit.edu. Now, Deepsky remembers and uses the last time server entered. In addition, I've added several other time servers in case one isnt working.
10. ADDED: Lunar Map to MOON tab under Solar System Info.
11. ADDED: Current Lunar Appearance as an image representing what the moon would look like on the date selected.
12. FIXED: When changing the time in Date preferences, leaving the time blank (ie. __:__) caused a system crash
13. FIXED: Object Details Print Screen now prints the star chart
14. ENHANCED: Redesigned the Solar System Information screens. Added a moon phase image to the moon information depicting the approximate phase. Changed the Solar System Summary screens color scheme to something reasonable.
15. FIXED: When the logbook entry screen was displayed for a new observation, the date now defaults to todays date.
16. ENHANCED: Convienient toolbar added to the image processing screen.
17. ENHANCED: Images displayed on the following screens now have a toolbar associated with them for additional functionality: Object Details, Database Maintenance, Logbook Entry, Image Gallery, Slide Show
18. ENHANCED: Rise and set times in the spreadsheet and on solar system screens no longer is in 24 hour format (ie. shows AM/PM)
19. FIXED: Made the software more reliable by correcting a couple memory leaks.
20. NEW: Identify Objects at Current Scope Position - Displays a list of objects that are within X number of degrees from where the scope is pointing. User can add the objects to the observing plan
21. BUG (INTERNATIONAL USERS ONLY): Adding or Removing personal observing locations did not work in some cases. This is now fixed.
22. NEW: Added separation calculation on the spreadsheet that calculates for each object in the spreadsheet, the separation between a home object (selected by right clicking and selecting the SET AS HOME TARGET option) or the current telescope position. The target column color can be set from the spreadsheet formatting preferences
23. NEW: Added new logbook feature called "EZ LOGBOOK UPDATE - WITHIN DATE RANGE". This feature lets you go back and update your log within a certain date range. You might want to use this if you normally record your observations by clicking the OBS column in the spreadsheet since this way only update the date and time. The new feature lets you go back and easily add things like location observed, equipment used, and other non object specific information.
24. FIXED: On the select CATALOG, CONST, and TYPES screens, clicking CLEAR would always take you to the end of the list.
25. ADDED: 4 catalogs to the DeepPro413000.mdb database - 1. Alignment Stars Catalog, 2. Catalogue of Reflection Nebulae, Custom ed. [vdB], 3. Catalogue of Southern Emission Nebulae, 4. Catalogue of Southern Stars embedded in nebulosity
26. NEW: Added Goto Support for the Celestron Ultima telescope.
27. NEW: Added menu option to call the program : Cartes du Ciel . This is a nice star charting package that is freeware.
29. FIXED: A problem existed with displaying the rise,set, and transit times in AM/PM format. This has been corrected.
30. ENHANCED: Added more descriptive objectid labels to the following catalogs: PGC, Zwicky, Abell, HII Regions, Lynds bright and dark nebula, ESO Planetary Nebulae, Fourth Cambridge Radio Survey, Hickson galaxy groups, Catalogue of Galaxies behind Milky WAY, Southern Dark Clouds, Catalogue of Southern Peculiar galaxies and associations
31. ADDED: 5 new catalogs for a total of 54 catalogs - Alignment Stars, Catalogue of Southern Stars embedded in nebulosity, Strassbourg Planetery Nebulae, Catalogue of Southern Emission Nebulae, SAC 7.1
32. UPDATED: The LX-200 Control panel displayed position results incorrectly at times after hitting refresh. This has been fixed. Setting the Scope/Time Location values sometimes caused an error and did not display the results properly. Also corrected selecting the SITE.
33. FIXED: A problem existed with the generic LX200 driver that gave false positions in rare instances. In some case an object slewed to may be missed.
34. ADDED: A SYNC command has been added to the right click menu to sync an LX200 or ULTIMA scope to the currently selected object.
35. FIXED: When changing the lat, long, or time zone for your personal observing location, the change was not saved permenantly to the database.
36. ADDED: Information on Meteor Showers to the solar system menu.
37. UPDATED: The text 'NGC' is now prefixed to the object id's in the NGC 2000 catalog for clarity while viewing a star chart.
38. UPDATED: Short date style and decimal separator are now automatically determined from your regional settings.
39. ADDED: Integrated Cartes du Ciel into Deepsky. Deepsky can now take the objects on its spreadsheet and send them to be displayed in Cartes du Ciel
40. ADDED: Integrated Cartes du Ciel into Deepsky. Deepsky can now display real sky cd images in Cartes du Ciel.
41. ADDED: Integrated Variable Star Observer into Deepsky. Deepsky can now display more information on variable stars and product light curves by sending data to the freeware application - Variable Star Observer.
42. UPDATED: When viewing stars from the GCVS, additional information such as Period, Epoch of Maximum, Duration of Eclipse are shown on the spreadsheet headers and in Object details and Object Maintenance.
43. UPDATED: An INCLUDE BLANK SIZE checkbox has been added to the RANGES 1 tab to provide finer control over object size selection
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Addition of Supertycho Star Catalogue.
Supertycho was prepared by Bill Anderson (banderson5@home.com) of Phoenix
Arizona USA, with much encouragement from Han Kleijn (Germany). Mr. Anderson
started with the new Tycho-2 star catalogue and prepared a custom supplement to
reduce problems with stars "missing" in Tycho-2. Details may be found in Mr.
Anderson's article on the Hallo Northern Sky (Free Astro Software) page of Han
