Changes from 3.7.6 to 3.7.7
Released August 9, 2015
Bugs fixed:
Improved earth satellite range rate
Fixed some typos in help file
Updated magnetic declination model for 2015-2020
Update Makefile for OS X.10 Yosemite to look for X11 in /opt/X11
Magnetic declination tooltip was reversed
Update Minor Planet Center donwloading script, mpcorb2edb.pl
INDI was not sending all Switches as required by specification.
Change astorb2edbl.pl to use curl and try both with and without EPSV.
New features:
Include new simpleINDI demo program.
Add support for UCAC4
Changes from 3.7.5 to 3.7.6
Released January 20, 2013
New features:
Show transit azimuth
Plots now show coordinates under cursor.
Improved Earth night lights file, nearth.gif.
Update Jupiter Great Red Spot default longitude.
Show satellite element age in Index.
Add Curiosity landing coordinates to mars_db
Separate Sky View horizon clipping option
SOHO is back
New daytime earth image with improved geography shading
SkyView -> Favorites offers same controls as map right-click
Telescope GoTo honors horizon map
Bugs fixed:
Improve Earth sunline in cyl graphic projection near equinox.
Improve error handling downloading asteroid data.
Improve accuracy of Earth satellite transits.
Significantly improve speed of Earth satellite rise and set predictions.
Significantly improve accuracy of Earth satellite transit predictions.
Eliminate Earth satellite Objects table values flashing.
Improve accuracy of Earth satellite ground footprint.
Saving Favorites after downloading new elements now saves new values.
Improved earth satellite height and solver stability.
Improve INDI menu interactions for type ISwitchVectorProperty
Sky view horizon clipping incorrectly in rare cases.
Better isolation of applicable Sky View options in individual planet rendering.
In Moon view: subearth, subsolar and anti-subsolar options moved from Grid to {Pen}Umbra.
Show sun in moonview during solar eclipse
Better handling of proxies and large files in web downloads
Favorites menu updates when db that is also a favorite changes.
Fixed crash if Earth view showing Favorite that is updated from file or download
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package modular-xorg-server: missing distfile xorg-server-1.17.4.tar.bz2
Package py-qt4: missing distfile PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.1.tar.gz
Package xservers: missing distfile xservers-3.3.6.5.tar.bz2
Package xview-clients: missing distfile xview3.2p1-X11R6.tar.gz
Package xview-lib: missing distfile xview3.2p1-X11R6.tar.gz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
changes:
-Support UCAC catalog version 3
-Sky view shows PA in live report
-Favorites may now be edited in-place
-Earth view displays great circle distance and bearing
-Change Earth view cylindrical projection from cos to linear
-Earth Object table reports range rate for solar system objects
-Eyepiece rotation depends on Alt/Az or RA/Dec placement context
pkgsrc change: don't hardwire dependency on libXp but rely on
the framework (the Motif implemtation's bl3 file and the
MOTIFLIB environment variable) to pull it in if necessary
changes:
-surround Earth satellite name with parentheses if eclipsed
-move "Keep marker centered' to Sky View Telescope menu
-bugfixes
-INDI enhancements
approved by gdt
Changes from 3.7.1 to 3.7.2
Released November 12, 2006
New Features:
* Data Table adds JD, HJD and PA columns.
* Earth View adds inertial reference frame option.
* Earth View allows picking earth satellite via orbit marker.
* Earth View shows altitude and range in satellite right-click data.
* Earth View shows satellite position in space.
* Earth View can draw orbits on cylindrical projection.
* Earth objects table has new column-wide toggles.
* Main menu can remember to start RT mode automatically.
* Makefiles now support building Mac OS X universal binaries.
* Object index search supports using glob patterns.
* Observing log adds JD, HJD and Airmass fields.
* Observing log replaces Search with List feature.
* Observing log search supports using glob patterns.
* Preferences can now remember and restore which views were open.
* Print adds new option to draw with thicker lines.
* Several improvements to XML and INDI tools.
* Shared app defaults file, XEphem, may now be in /etc.
* Sites list search supports using glob patterns.
* Sky View draws simplistic antialiased stars.
* Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus satellite models extended to 2021.
* Native binary support for Mac OSX Intel.
Bugs fixed:
* .fts added as default suffix when downloading DSS images.
* Data menu was not cutting spect field at 2 chars.
* Earth View uses unique names for satellite object listing fields.
* Fix logic to detect no natural satellite models.
* Main menu now only shows progress meter if using fewer than 1000 steps.
* Numbers like 2e-2 were considered negative in some situations.
* Sky View RADec grid was inaccurate in AA mode near celestial poles
* Sky View compass correct now when showing tilted/rotated FITS image.
* Sky View labels N and S ecliptic poles.
* Sky View no longer prevents panning below horizon.
* Sky View telescope marker turned off when manually point only if also recentering.
* Sky View was leaving constellation figure files open.
* Solver properly guards XML entity characters when saving functions.
* Support ISO 8601 in FITS DATE-OBS field.
* Support much longer edb entries when downloading from web.
* Updated Delta-T table.
* WCS solver window labels CDELT2 as pixels up, not down.
* astorb2edb.pl updated for longer object names.
INDI enhancements:
* add IEDeferLoop function for inline waiting.
* add IUCrackNumber and IUCrackText utility functions.
* change indiserver to use select(2) not threads (10-20% more efficient).
* command line tools can inherit socket from parent script to maintain a single session
* fix bug in very rapid timeouts.
* guarantee getProperties is first command sent to drivers.
* improve efficiency of traffic to remote drivers.
* indiserver sniffs client devices from all commands, not just getProperties.
* library sends doubles with more precision.
* merge stderr from drivers into indiserver's log with date stamp.
* more robust IUSaveText.
to all internal recursive make processes. As such, rename it to
"PKGSRC_MAKE_ENV".
XXX Note, some of the usage of this variable in package Makefiles seems
XXX incorrect. They probably want "MAKE_ENV", which is the environment
XXX passed to the make process when running "make" within ${WRKSRC}.
Bug fixes, plus:
Changes from 3.7 to 3.7.1
Released November 19, 2005
New Features:
* Add tool to align two or more FITS images and create motion movies.
* Add Control-m keyboard shortcut to add any view to the Movie loop.
* Upgrade to higher resolution Earth image.
* Put user annotations in a scrolled list to accommodate lengthy collections.
* Add Moonrise and Moonset to collection of Step size controls.
* Image gallery lookups now search against all names of data base objects.
Changes from 3.6.4 to 3.7
Released August 1, 2005
New Features:
* Data
o Includes Hubble GSC 2.2.0.1 catalog, 450 million stars complete to M18.5.
o New and updated catalogs: Messier, IC, NGC, COVBS, SKY2000, HYPERLEDA, Supernova, WDSC, Open clusters, Henry-Draper, Pleiades and asteroids.
o YBS replaced with Sky 2000 to magnitude 6.5.
o Can now display Gallery image directly from Data Index.
* Earth View
o Display satellite orbits in space.
o Zoom in to see better geography, or out to see high orbits.
o Quick-set button to set equator rotation.
o Display of surface footprint is now optional.
o Expanded range mouse panning allows continuous rotation.
* Sky View
o Save and restore sets of eyepiece definitions.
o Save and restore sets of eyepiece Sky positions.
o Constellation figure definitions now stored in editable files.
o WCS solver invoked automatically if header has seed but no solution.
o Shortcut button to set display aspect ratio to match image.
o FITS file blinking via new Movie frame function.
* User Annotation
o Anchor locations are now based on the view's world coordinates.
o Sets of annotations may be saved and loaded from files.
* Other
o Collect any number of View, NAAG or Plot frames into a movie, save as set of PNG files.
o Many tweaks for improved INDI support, including display FITS BLOBs.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
by Jim Bernard. There are nontrivial differences to the original file.
(looks like a 3.6.4 snapshot)
So just update to 3.6.4.
changes:
-add Proper Motion columns to Data table
-update NAAG also when change horizon offset in Data Setup
-Favorites table now displays full .edb definition of each entry
-allow adding a new Favorite directly from the dialog
-Solver has separate Find Min and Find Max goals
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
