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.
