ÒÄÄ¿ ÒÄÄ¿ ÖÄÄ¿ ÖÄÄ¿ Ò Â ÖÄÄ¿ ÖÄÄ¿ Light 1.17 ÇÄÄÙ ÇÄÂÙ º ³ º ÓÄÄ´ º ³ º ³ÄÄÄÄ Ð Ð Á ÓÄÄÙ ÓÄÄÙ ÓÄÄÙ ÓÄÄÙ Ð ÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Probably the most extensive Astronomy program for the Series 3a. þ Yale Star Database. þ Full Messier Coverage þ Full NGC Coverage þ Ephemeris þ Reference Star DataBase þ Constellation/Milky way þ Lots of beautiful pictures and sounds þ Mars Meridian etc. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ INSTALLING PROCYON ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Procyon Requires a Psion 3a, and can use up to 128k free system-memory to run in. *NOTE* The configuration file has changed again, so please delete the file Procyon.cfg in your M:\OPD\ directory. *NOTE* For upgraders from versions prior to and including 1.10: Files are now being placed in a different directory. Probably the best thing to do is, copy any personalized Event.dbf and Multiple-Tracking files to a save location and erase the old copy, then re-install this new version. *NOTE* Multiple Tracking files should have 3 fields. Field #1 RA (0 - 23.59) Field #2 DEC (-89.99 - 89.99) Field #3 Description (what to print above object) After PKUnzipping the proc117l.zip file copy Procyon.Opa to an \APP dire ctory. Copy the rest of the files to an \APP\PROCYON directory. It doesn't matter whether these directories are in RAM or on Flash, because Procyon does not modify this files. Just watch out that the Procyon.* files are on the same disk, the other files may be split among multiple drives. The following files are absolutely required to run Procyon: Procyon .opa (Main Program) Procyon .ovl (Overlay File) Procyon .grp (Graphic File) Yale .bin (Yale Database of stars) Messier .bin (Database of all Messier-objects) We strongly suggest that you also include these files: Moon .pic (Used for building Moon-phase) Star .pic (Used by Intro-screen) Jovian .pic (Used to show Jovian Moons) Marssurf.pic (Surface of Mars) Milkyway.bin (Used to display the Milky Way) The following files are optional: * .pic (Graphics used by Procyon) Every Pic file can be left out. * .wve (sound files used by Procyon) Every Wve file can be left out. Event .dbf (Event Base) Comet .dbf (Comets) Mplan .bin (Asteroids, Minor Planets) Conline .bin (Constellations Lines) Variable.bin (Datbase of Variable Stars) Binary.bin (Database of Binary Stars) Marsurf.pic (Mars Map used to calculate the Central Meridian) Procyon .hlp (Help-file, should be on Procyon.opa disk) Please read the Help-file for further information. If you decide to remove Procyon (shame on you!), please be aware that Procyon automatically has created a small file called Procyon.Cfg in the \OPD directory of your Internal drive. Deleting this file, erasing the \APP\PROCYON directory, and removing the icon from the system- screen completely removes Procyon. REMARKS... ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ The Saturnian Moons and Red-Spot option are based on emperical formulae Sometimes it is necessary to set your Decimal-separator to Period; especially if you use a European Psion, Procyon will not warn you to set the separator to Period ! Files like Comet.dbf, Event.dbf and the Multiple Tracking files can cause trouble because they all use the . as the decimal separator instead of the European comma. You may wish to grab the Procyon screen as a standard Psion PICture- file. That is possible by pressing Control+Shift+Psion+'S' together. A file called Screen.Pic will appear in the root of your internal disk. Using the different editor programs you can edit or print it. Please don't try to reverse-engineer Procyon. We will not try to stop you, but if you like some information on the inner-workings of Procyon, just get in touch with us. Thanks to all the testers and contributers out there, who have supplied ideas, support, bug-reports and other useful stuff. REGISTERING ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ If you got any questions, suggestions, want more technical information or just want to congratulate us, we can be reached at: ÄÄÄÄÄSnail MailÄÄÄÄÄ ÄÄÄÄElectronic MailÄÄÄ Vampire Vengeance vampy@cuci.nl c/o Drossaertstraat 10 sussenbach@med.ruu.nl 6243 DA Geulle CompuServe: 100561,122 The Netherlands Procyon Light is free for non-commercial use. If you really like this program or use it regulary you could consider registering for: Hfl 35, DM 35, US$ 25 or UKœ 20. Please do not send cheques, because cashing in The Netherlands costs an obscene amount of money ! But the most convient way to register is via CompuServe. Just GO SWREG and register for PROCYON Registration ID # 7318. It will only cost you US$ 25 including shipping And handling. But you can also send the above mentioned amount in Bills to our snail-mail adres. REVISION LIST ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ New in Procyon 1.02 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Updated Messier.Dbf, had some anomalies. Problems fixed within Yale.Dbf search routine. [PRO] Pictures of ALL Messier Items (110 pictures) optional. [PRO] Faster Calculation in High Precision Mode. [PRO] Enhanced precision of Planetary Positions. New in Procyon 1.03 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Rebuild with Current or Set Time. Summer time combined with Date & Time. Implemented Cursor-speed up with the Psion key. Re-arranged Menu-items and added some nice lines. More Preferences (still working on them) Grid added. Graphic display of the Planetary Magnitudes over the current year added. New Items in Procyon 1.10 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Dsseldorf and other cities with an Umlaut could not be chosen; this is now fixed. Conversion of Yale.dbf, NGC.dbf, Messier.dbf, Refstar.dbf, Mplan.dbf to Binary files. You cannot edit these files yourself, but they have the advantage of smaller file-size and faster file-access. All files group together in any \APP\PROCYON directory so they don't cluther your System Screen (DATA / RECORD) anymore. Problem fixed with occasional Grey text instead of Black. (This is really a Problem in OPL !) User-defined location option added. Places are now retrieved from the World-application, which has the advantage of more places, correct spelling and there's no need to use Places.dbf anymore. Fixed problem with Eventbase residing on Flash. (Write-protect error). Quick finding options added in both Messier and Starname. Constellation Lines added. Fixed and expanded the Yale.Bin file, more useful information. Fixed some problems with Rise or Set Times of the Sun. [PRO] Expanded Minor Planets Database (Mplan.Bin) to 750+ Objects. New Items in Procyon 1.11 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Fixed some problems in reading World Data. Corrected some spelling mistakes. Minor corrections in High-precision calculations. New Items in Procyon 1.12 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Major bug in the Asteroids/Comets algorithms corrected, many thanks to George Sobala for pointing that out. Added extra Graph Types. Fixed a bug in the User-object naming. Fixed Latitude/Longitude in User Location which were reversed. You couldn't change the contrast within Graph, now you can... New Items in Procyon 1.13 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Added Milky Way option. Fixed a bug in the Messier-routine. Inversed View is now stored into Cfg file. Enhanced the Precision of the Moons of Saturn. Improved the picture quality of Pluto and Mars. Change format of Multiple-Tracking File Slightly. Added HaleBopp.Dbf. New Items in Procyon 1.14 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Minor Planets are now kept in Mplan.bin and the Comets in Comets.dbf. Comets.Dbf is searched first, so you can add your own data to this database file, which has priority over mplan.bin. GMT offset now accepts decimal hours. Fixed problem in User-location being different from Info. New Items in Procyon 1.15 ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Calculation of the Central Meridian of Mars; presentation of full Mars Map and visible part. Calculation of time that Red Spot passews the Jovian meridian Calculation of minima and maxima of Variable Stars. Plotting of orbits of Binary Stars. Binary and Variable stars calculation. Corrected some minor errors. New Items in Procyon 1.16 _________________________ Includes now Comets with elliptic as well as parabolic orbits Extended Event database including more than 10 Total Solar Eclipses Calculation of Dates of New and Full Moon Enhanced accuracy for Moon position In Zoom option Sun and Moon at scale Brightness-time Plot of Algol and indication of current mgnitude New items in Procyon 1.17 _____________________________________ Many improvements in lay-out en speed Bug in Asteroid option fixed Format Comet.dbf changed John S. Sussenbach, Pedro M.G. van Can, August 1996