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 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.
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.
major changes:
-additional data format support
-GUI fixes and enhancements
-image analysis, fits
-cross-platform compatibility
-improved telescope control
too many changes to list here, see HOMEPAGE for details
simplified installation a bit to save the need to list all the individual
support files in the Makefile
by myself.
Changes since previous version:
Numerous bug fixes, new fast zoom and panning modes on skyview, add
zenith angle to table in dataview, add live dragging in earth and sky
view, and many other features.
