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- I'm very pleased, you've got interested in my program!
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- What is StarCalc?
- As a whole, StarCalc is a variant of computer planetarium, which draws on
- screen and prints sky charts for any moment and from any place on the Earth.
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- Furthemore, it has some other additional facilities, for example receit of
- the current data about any visible object, i.e.
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- I have not yet provided my product with the Help, because it's too much
- bother for me to do it ;-), so please find below several notes on some
- hidden possibilities of the program:
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- - in order to select an object just click a mouse on it, after double
- click you will see the window with a full data about this object.
-
- - the easiest way to rotate a picture along the azimuth is to click
- the mouse left button and drag it at any place of the image, but if
- you wish to turn the image around by a certain angle click the mouse
- right button and choose a line of a popup menu accordingly.
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- - on the fast computer after the input of the required image rotation
- step (to be set at the same place as the observation moment) press and
- hold down CTRL+F (CTRL+B) and you will enjoy the effect of sky rotation
- even with constellation boundaries preserved. If the step of rotation is
- equal to 24 star hours cycle you can see how planets, the Sun, i.e. move
- along the sky sphere.
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- - the program can rotate the sky automatically with the different speed both
- forward and backward. To get the sky image according to the real one at the
- current moment, you can first set the speed of rotation "x1", then set current
- time and turn on autorotation mode.
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- - the image adjustment toolbar can be made "auto hide" in order to save screen
- space. For this purposes please select "Auto hide toolbar" in the menu. In
- this case the toolbar will appear, if you move the mouse cursor to the bottom
- of the main program window.
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- as for the rest of my program, I think, you will unserstand it yourself without
- problem.
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- Installation notes:
- Installation of the program in the operation system can be executed by the usual
- procedure: copy content of archive to a temporary folder and start setup.exe.
- However, you may just copy archive files to any folder, start StarCalc.exe and
- everything should work without problem.
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- Program requirements:
- works on any computer under Windows95, OSR2 and NT4.0
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- Co-processor optional and the program works well, for example, on 486SX-33
- (for the test purposes I run it even on 386DX). And in case with the Pentiums
- everything flys excellently. Just try it!
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- Latest news and versions of StarCalc you can find on it's Home page
- http://www.bankvoronezh.ru/HomePages/Zavalishin/main.htm
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- If you have questions or requests please don't hesitate to contact me by
- address zavalishin@bankvoronezh.ru
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- Good luck,
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- Alexander E. Zavalishin
- Voronezh, Russia