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zizza07
5th April 2009, 15:04
Hi

Astronomy tool to easily locate and compute position of stars (up to 2.5 million),planets or sky objects (18200 included) of most well known catalogs
It provides powerfull sky chart to easily find objects, Hipparchos and Tycho stellar catalog, objects photos, moon phases calendar to plan your observation session, many sky objects (more than 18200).

Plus, if you want to pilot your scope with your PDA, Astromist is done for you. It controls severals kind of telescope (meade, celestron, takahasi, losmandy, ouranos, bbox, ..) and provides GPS support to locate you automatically on the earth !

Using Astromist sky chart, 2 stars alignment has been never made so easy. For more advanced astronomers,Astromist provides several stars alignment methods to get accurate pointing on sky objects and planets on every type of mount (home made with encoder or commercial home).

"Everything in a few taps and hollow your hand" was the guiding principle behind the design of Astromist.Limitations:
•no saving of configuration. You have to enter your location each time.

•selection of a maximum of 5 objects at a time,

•search of objects only inside a small set of catalogs,

•reduced Moon feature catalog available,

•reduced Mars feature catalog available,

•limited date and time modification inside main simulators,

•no tools provided to update some databases or create custom catalogs

•bluetooth is disabled.
What's new in this release:
•Fix sporadic reset when using object list within SkyChart after selecting a star,

•Fix negative rise hour of the moon on the wizzard page for some days and locations,

•Fix bad M103 image thumbnail,

•Fiw Dreyer description display issue if a star is selected inside NightTripper,

•Release new high resolution Messier image library in complement the low res one (Thanks to Carlo Mascellani for this !),

•Add upload of bright stars by default to enable common name identification on click inside sky charts,

•Change display mode of images within skychart to get 65000 colors instead of 256.

Requirements:
•2000KB RAM

•Palm OS 4.0

•MathLib

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Add an option in preference to turn off the cursor in sky charts
· Fix a bug in Planet Assistant that removes ecliptic longitude and latitude values for some planets
· Fix a display bug of the object name in ObjectInfo when selecting a TYCHO star from Skychart
· Fix a display bug in comet assistant (planets was no longer in the right plane)
· Fix magnitude computation for Comet and Minor Planets
· Fix bad epoch conversion for minor planet using cometdb.exe
· Fix a display bug about the distance of the stars (no distance available for the moment so always "-")
· Fix a bug in FinderAssistant when on camera icon is tapped twice: image is not always displayed the second time
· Fix a bug in FinderAssistant when selecting a TYCHO star: no more debug message
· Fix a bug in CompassAssistant when selecting a object in the compass: correct update of the list title
· Fix display bug in Saturn event assistant when moving the stylus on the screen

mtf500
5th April 2009, 16:31
hi for ppc this 1?

Ardent
5th April 2009, 21:18
hi for ppc this 1?No.. It's for Palm OS.

I'd love to find the Windows Mobile version as well.

zizza07
5th April 2009, 22:41
Hi

Sorry for the mistake, the above file is for the palm. Concerning the windows mobile, there is a free version fo course there is also the free version for palm.

[Only registered and activated users can see links]

What are the benefits of the registered versions?
You are able to:

•Create and manage numerous plans or lists (up to 500 objects at a time instead of 5 in free version),
•Use the full range of Astromist catalogs: 19000 objects of deep sky, up to 2.5 millions of stars, complete catalogs (moon, mars etc.),
•Use the tools to design your own databases and update the existing ones (Comet, Asteroids, Earth Satellites, Eyepieces, etc.)
•Use the image libraries (All NGC, Messier, Planets, 1100 moon's features, 800 mars's features),
•Fully control your devices (telescope, GPS, DSLR camera) by using bluetooth,
•Change the date in any assistant,
•Keep your configuration and preferences.
You receive the exclusive rebates on additional devices certified with Astromist :
•Only with 2.4 or above versions: 15$ off available on the BlueStar devices (recommended if you need the simplest plug and play solution),
•10$ off available on the Aircable Serial devices (recommended if you are looking for a low cost and compact solution), or on the Aircable Serial OS devices (recommended if you want a plug and play add on to your telescope serial cable).

zizza07
5th April 2009, 23:04
There is a freeware Taiyoukei 2.06 ppc


[Only registered and activated users can see links]

Ardent
6th April 2009, 01:33
There is a freeware Taiyoukei 2.06 ppc


[Only registered and activated users can see links]
Many thanks for the updated information.

If ever you come across a registered Windows Mobile please do let us know. I for one would be very interested.

Ardent. :)

koterman
6th April 2009, 18:46
I installed and started this version on a wm6.0 (lg ks20) using StyleTap - found elsewhere on this forum. But the graphics on the emulated Palm can not be compared to the ppc native version, I barely can read the texts on the starmap. So it is doable, but pointless.

Many thanx for the upload though.
:ilove:

zizza07
6th April 2009, 22:52
I believe styletap do not support the registry of Motorola Dragonball and also bluetooth. Probably this is why has some limitation. But you can try the free version of astromisy for windows mobile.

kmssd
6th February 2011, 09:20
Still no ppc version?