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- VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 26-Aug-2001
-
- ===== Product Information ==============================
- Product: Coeli - Stella 2000 Virtual Observatory
- Version: 5.01
- Version Date: 5-Mar-2001
- Product Type: Software
- Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
- Shareware, subject to distribution restrictions
-
- Product Description: Interactive astronomy, a virtual observatory
- in which to explore realistic skies in real
- time, with observing log, list, ephemerides,
- location browser, and sophisticated searches
- embracing the solar system, DSOs, and over
- 15500 stars. Effects include scintillation,
- extinction, refraction, and precession in
- point-source, photoplate, and spotlight
- display modes. Now integrates Solar Guide(tm)
- and the Concise HTML Dictionary of Astronomy.
- Reason for version: Bug fix and Maintenance Update
-
- Category: Home & hobby; Astronomy
- Keywords: astronomy, planetarium, star map, observing
- log, sky, planet, DSO, comet, Window
- Required Packages: ASTEL501
- This Package: ASTEL501
- Registration Fee: 59.00-79.00 (USD)
-
- Required Configuration
- Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80486)
- Clock Speed: 166 MHz
- Minimum OS: Windows 95
- Standard RAM: 8000K
- Hard Drive Space: 3000K
- Required:
- Floating Point Unit
- Hard drive
- Color monitor
- Mouse
- Won't Work With:
- Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA)
- Hercules Graphics Card
- Tandy Display Adapter
- Color Graphic Adapter (CGA)
- Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA)
- Multi-Color Graphics Array (MCGA)
- Multi-Color Graphics Array 256 (MCGA 256)
- Video Graphics Array (VGA)
-
- Orders:
- Address: Coeli Software Products
- Bahnhofstrasse 58
- CH-8001 Zurich
- Switzerland
- Toll-Free Phone: 1-800-903-4152
- Phone: +49 221 2407278
- FAX: +49 221 2407279
- Internet: contact@coeli.com
- Other E-mail: http://www.coeli.com
-
- Support:
- Address: Coeli Software Products
- Bahnhofstrasse 58
- CH-8001 Zurich
- Switzerland
- Phone: contact@coeli.com
- FAX: contact@coeli.com
- BBS Name: Virtual Observatory Lounge
- BBS Phone: www.coeli.com
- Internet: contact@coeli.com
- Other E-mail: http://www.coeli.com
-
-
- ===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
-
-
- CAN YOU READ THE SKY AS EFFORTLESSLY AS YOU CAN READ?
-
- Your Virtual Observatory for the Millennium
-
-
- Stella 2000 is new astronomical software for the PC which runs in all
- 32-bit flavours of Windows. Stella generates highly realistic views of
- the heavens in real time as observed from anywhere in the world.
-
- Think of it as your virtual observatory. Stella is nothing less than a
- simulation of the stars in their courses as seen from Earth, and has the
- capacity to transform you into an expert on the skies.
-
- Explore realistic skies in real time, complete with observing log and
- list facility, live ephemeris, location browser, and a sophisticated
- search embracing planets, comets, DSOs, and over 15500 stars.
-
- Choose between 4 different celestial projections and observe from
- between 0-90 degrees of elevation and 0-360 degrees of the compass in
- either resizeable windows or in a faithful full-screen mode.
-
- Advance, retard, or animate the simulation's clock by years, months,
- days, and minutes of both sidereal or solar time.
-
- Stella builds upon the uniqueness 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 this new package, crowned by
- the facility to record and plan your real-sky observations quickly and
- conveniently.
-
- The sky and the ephemerides may be printed in either mono or color, with
- both horizon and equatorial grids, aequator, ecliptic, horizon,
- constellation lines, names, boundaries and legends.
-
- An astronomical application stands or falls by the quality of its data,
- and Stella 2000's sources are second to none. The starting point is the
- much relied-upon Harvard Revised Catalog (Hoffleit & Warren,1991), an
- incomparable source of details on 10000 or so naked eye stars down to
- magnitude 6.5. A permanent level-one database, the Bright Star Catalog is
- present in both the shareware and registered versions of Stella 2000,
- supplemented by a 7000 star selection from the ultra-modern ESA Hipparcos
- satellite sky survey, bringing Stella's basic population to almost 16000
- stars.
-
- For telescopic and binocular observers, we begin to climb the ladder of
- Stella's optional data extensions, all the way from magnitude 7.0 to
- those stars beyond magnitude 9 resolvable by more powerful amateur
- telescopes. The SAO and Hipparcos extensions are tiered in batches of
- 25000 stars, and may be purchased and loaded at your discretion.
- Stella's star capacity thus reaches a more-than-respectable 1 million.
-
-
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- What do you need to run Stella 2000?
-
-
- Minimum System
- --------------
- Stella can be installed on any IBM compatible PC with a 486 DX processor
- or higher running Windows 95, 98, or NT. The more video and conventional
- RAM you have, the better - 1 Mb or more for the former, and at least 8Mb
- of the latter.
-
- Please note that although Stella will load and run on the stated minimum
- system, operations -- especially load times -- will be slow. We make no
- apologies for this: Stella is an advanced planetarium system containing
- more celestial objects and graphics than average and, in order to
- achieve such excellence, speed optimizations were inevitably among the
- first things to be sacrificed. Therefore we here suggest a more
- practical minimum system for running Stella as an Intel Pentium 166 with
- 16Mb of RAM.
-
-
- Recommended System
- ------------------
- The recommended system for running Stella 2000 is a Pentium 200 or
- higher with 32 Mb of RAM and a graphics card equipped with at least 2 Mb.
-
- Additionally, Stella requires that your Windows display be in either
- Hi-color or Truecolor mode, at a resolution of at least 800x600 pixels.
-
- The optimum screen resolution for Stella is 1024x768. Please note that a
- display of only 256 colours is bound to be a disappointment.
-
- If your video subsystem is not up to displaying in at least
- Hi-color at 800x600, we would strongly recommend purchase of our
- slightly less demanding Coeli - Electric Planisphere, with which Stella
- 2000 is maintaining full compatibility. Just point your Web browser at
-
- http://www.coeli.com
-
- for details.
-
-
-
-
- ===== Packing List =====================================
-
- As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
- following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
-
- Filename Size Date Time CRC32
- _SETUP.1 741159 26-Aug-2001 05:36p FCA9642D
- READ_ME.1ST 2455 11-Oct-2000 04:50a 9B4CBDEB
- _SETUP.2 1454994 26-Aug-2001 05:36p C1F48627
- _SETUP.3 1455654 26-Aug-2001 05:36p DD7B90E1
- _SETUP.4 144808 26-Aug-2001 05:36p 31DF549F
- FILE_ID.DIZ 317 7-Mar-2001 04:13a 546BE608
- _SETUP.DLL 10752 4-Dec-1997 01:00a 838CF8C9
- SETUP.EXE 47616 4-Dec-1997 01:00a F9D25D99
- _ISDEL.EXE 8192 4-Dec-1997 01:00a DB6FF40D
- _INST32I.EX_ 306666 4-Dec-1997 01:00a 2886F44E
- FEATURES.HTM 20123 6-Apr-2001 10:29p 3D5E9A39
- ORDERS.HTM 12965 12-Apr-2001 03:12a 09DCC406
- COELI.ICO 766 11-Oct-2000 04:50a DF3C7C68
- DISK1.ID 5 26-Aug-2001 05:36p 2ED46A83
- DISK2.ID 5 26-Aug-2001 05:36p 2ED46A83
- DISK3.ID 5 26-Aug-2001 05:36p 2ED46A83
- DISK4.ID 5 26-Aug-2001 05:36p 2ED46A83
- AUTORUN.INF 25 11-Oct-2000 04:50a 32C8D740
- SETUP.INI 42 26-Aug-2001 05:36p C5531127
- SETUP.INS 145368 4-Dec-1997 01:00a 60C701B6
- _SETUP.LIB 190224 26-Aug-2001 05:36p 88878858
- SETUP.PKG 3922 26-Aug-2001 05:36p 85C425D4
- COMMENT.TXT 9968 11-Oct-2000 04:50a DEF62308
- INSTALL.TXT 4122 11-Oct-2000 04:50a FE754DF7
- README.TXT 25741 11-Oct-2000 04:50a D3DA3680
- WHATSNEW.TXT 155 11-Oct-2000 04:50a A2124733
- HOMEPAGE.URL 45 11-Oct-2000 04:50a A5748C81
- UPDATES.URL 74 11-Oct-2000 04:50a E39BB994
-
-
- ===== Installation =====================================
-
-
- INSTALLING COELI - STELLA 2000
- ------------------------------
-
-
- Windows automatic installation
- ------------------------------
-
- Your Stella package is installed simply by double clicking on
- the file SETUP.EXE once you have unzipped the contents of
- Stella.zip to a folder of your choosing.
-
- We recommend the excellent WinZip utility for unpacking
- Stella's main .zip archive. You can get the latest version
- of Winzip from
-
- http://www.winzip.com
-
- If you have not already done so, we would additionally
- recommend that, prior to running SETUP.EXE, you use Explorer
- to create a new folder called Astronomy inside the Windows 95
- Start Menu folder. Just navigate to Windows\Start Menu and
- click with the right mouse button on some unoccupied space in
- Explorer's right-hand window. You'll see a popup menu, one of
- whose options will be |New|. Select |Folder| from the submenu,
- and name it 'Astronomy' or some other appropriate title. After
- setup, you will be able to manually move the shortcut named
- Stella 2000 into this new folder for a tidier and more compact
- Start menu.
-
- Tip: when in doubt about the Win95 Explorer's file-listing,
- just press [F5] to refresh its display. Very often, an item you
- thought wasn't there will magically appear!
-
- NB: IF INSTALLING OVER A PRIOR VERSION OF STELLA (WHETHER
- TRIAL OR REGISTERED), FIRST COPY ANY OBSERVATION LOG FILES
- (.STL) TO A SAFE PLACE BEFORE PROCEDING WITH THE REMOVAL OF
- THE OLD VERSION VIA THE CONTROL PANEL.
-
- WHEN YOU HAVE REMOVED THE OLD INSTALLATION, YOU MAY THEN
- CONFIDENTLY PROCEED WITH THE SETUP OF THE NEW VERSION OF
- STELLA 2000, FINALLY COPYING BACK THE LOG FILES WHEN THIS HAS
- COMPLETED TO YOUR SATISFACTION.
-
- THE SETUP UTILITY LEAVES ALL PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED FILES OF THE
- SAME NAME INTACT, SO WITHOUT FIRST REMOVING THE LAST
- INSTALLATION, A NEW COPY OF THE PACKAGE CANNOT BE INSTALLED.
-
- Stella may be uninstalled at any time simply by opening
- Control Panel from the Settings entry in your Start Menu, and
- double- clicking on the item Add/Remove Programs. You will be
- shown a list of programs currently installed on your system,
- from which you should select the item 'Stella 2000' for
- automatic removal.
-
- The complete Stella 2000 package contains a number of text
- files, all designed to help you get started with the minimum
- of fuss. Have a browse through any item with the .TXT or .RTF
- extension if you've the time. Some of these will necessitate
- the selection of |Word Wrap| in Notepad or whichever text
- editor you elect to view them in.
-
- If you encounter a serious installation problem, please do not
- hesitate to get in touch.
-
-
- E-mail: contact@coeli.com
-
- http://www.coeli.com
- http://pluto.beseen.com/boardroom/l/21885
-
-
-
-
- ===== Warranty =========================================
-
- ***************** IMPORTANT WARRANTY INFORMATION ****************
-
-
-
- All Coeli Software Products
-
-
-
- *** PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY ***
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
-
- TRIAL USE (SHAREWARE EVALUATION VERSION) WARRANTY DISCLAIMER:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
- EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
- PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH THE END USER. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE
- PROVE DEFECTIVE, THE USER ASSUMES THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,
- REPAIR OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR
- ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY REDISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE TO THE USER
- FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
- DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE
- (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA, DATA BEING RENDERED
- INACCURATE, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION,
- BUSINESS INTERRUPTIONS, LOSS SUSTAINED BY THE USER OR THIRD PARTIES,
- OR A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE)
- EVEN IF THE AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED
- OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
-
-
-
- REGISTERED VERSION ONLY WARRANTY:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Coeli Inc warrants the physical CD-R media
- occasionally provided with registered versions to be free of defects
- in materials and workmanship for a period of ninety days
- from the date of registration. If Coeli Inc receives
- notification within the warranty period of defects in materials
- or workmanship, and such notification is determined by
- Coeli Inc to be correct, Coeli Inc will
- replace the defective media.
-
- The entire and exclusive liability and remedy for breach of this
- Limited Warranty shall be limited to replacement of defective
- CD-R media and shall not include or extend to
- any claim for or right to recover any other damages, including
- but not limited to, loss of profit, data, or use of the software,
- or special, incidental, or consequential damages or other similar
- claims, even if Coeli Inc has been specifically advised
- of the possibility of such damages. In no event will Coeli Inc's
- liability for any damages to you or any other person
- ever exceed the lower of suggested list price or actual price
- paid for the license to use the software, regardless of any form
- of the claim.
-
- Coeli Inc SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES,
- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED
- WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Coeli Inc WILL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ISSUE MONETARY REFUND
- OF THE PURCHASE PRICE OF ANY OF ITS REGISTERED SOFTWARE PRODUCTS.
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-
- ===== License for Use and Distribution =================
-
-
- For general license terms, please see the file License.txt included with
- the distribution archive.
-
-
- - Coeli ~ Stella 2000 - SYSOP.TXT Extract -
-
-
- C O E L I (tm)
- --------------
-
- STELLA 2000
-
- --------------------
-
- Internet f t p I N F O R M A T I O N
- ----------------------------------------
-
- Last updated: January, 2000
-
-
- For our full distribution license terms for Webmasters, please see the
- file Sysop.txt included with the program archive. The following extract
- is for purposes of summary and convenience only.
-
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Internet Distribution Requirements:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Limited Distribution License:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- As the exclusive copyright holder for Stella 2000, Coeli Inc
- authorizes online distribution solely in accordance with
- the following conditions.
-
- o The Stella 2000 package - including all related program, data,
- and documentation files - CANNOT be modified in any way
- and must be distributed as a complete package,
- without exception. VENDINFO.DIZ contains a list
- of all files which form part of the Coeli package.
-
- o ZDNet and similar editorialized online distributors may post
- this version of the package only on condition that the
- existing star rating remains unaltered and the download counter
- for this program is not reset.
-
- o Coeli Inc prohibits the distribution of outdated
- versions of the Stella 2000 shareware package.
-
- o Licensee shall not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify,
- decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or
- transfer the licensed program or its related files
- except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized
- use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of
- this license.
-
-
- All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Coeli Inc.
-
-
-
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