![]() Likewise, as Earth makes its annual trek around the Sun, you'll see different stars from month to month. This means that you'll see different stars overhead at different times of night. As Earth turns on its axis, the stars appear to rise in the east and set in the west, just as the Sun and Moon do. The motion of the stars marks the passage of time during the night. But what if you can't tell Polaris from Pollux, or Saturn from Sagittarius? No problem! Using this simple, easy-to-make Star Wheel, you'll be navigating the night sky with confidence in no time. Like most people, you probably enjoy getting out under a clear night sky to gaze up at the beautiful tapestry of stars and planets overhead. The "Quit" menu command has moved from the File menu to the "Sk圜hart III" menu, for better conformance with Apple's Mac OS X interface guidelines.It takes just a few minutes to make this handy Star Wheel, which helps you navigate the night sky with ease! Click on image for a larger view. The Mac OS X version now has the main window's "close" button enabled clicking it quites the application. (This warning can safely be ignored, however.) The Mac OS X installer/updater application should no longer display a warning on Macs with more than 2.0 GB of RAM. The Mac OS X version of Sk圜hart III can now launch properly on Macs with 2.0 GB of RAM or more installed. Removed timing code in the Mac OS X version that was causing a performance-profiling dialog to appear sporadically. This update replaces it with the 32-bit version.įixed a crash in the Mac OS X version that occurred when moving the mouse inside a progress-bar dialog. Previous versions of the Windows installer for Sk圜hart III installed a 16-bit version of the uninstall application (UnWise.exe). (The previous expressions "blew up" and displayed highly unrealistic results after roughly 10,000 years from J2000.) For the time period 1600 - 2100 A.D., the previous (IAU 1976) expressions for precession are still used. These new expressions should provide realistic results for a much wider interval of +/- 500,000 years from J2000. The star type for single stars is now simply listed as "Star".įor years outside 1600 - 2100 A.D., the program uses new expressions for the precession of the equinox provided by W. The object type for the Sun is now displayed as "Star" for the major planets as "Planet" for moons as "Moon". In the "Object Info" window, a number of text strings and buttons were rearranged. In the chart legend, the full names of deep sky objects are being displayed, instead of abbreviations. a search for "Jupiter" will also find "JÃ?Ã?ºpiter", and a search for "Saturn" will also find "SÃ?Ã?¤turn". When case is ignored, diacritics are also ignored - e.g. This ensures that accented and other european-language characters will translate properly between Mac and Windows.Ī case-sensitive search for an object name is now sensitive to both case and diacritics (e.g. Īll strings in data files, and settings descriptions in settings files, are converted to Windows Latin-1 encoding before being written to disk. (The computer's regional settings are used to determine the locale.) Decimal points in text import files and settings files are always assumed to be the US (".") decimal-point character, for consistency. The decimal-point character is now locale-specific decimals are displayed as "," in European locales, and "." in North America. ![]() A number of changes were made to support better internationalization/localization: This release brings the code base of the English-language version up to sync with the newly released Spanish-language version.
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