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1. SKYCHART FUTURE MAC OS X
2. SKYCHART FUTURE UPDATE
3. SKYCHART FUTURE FULL
4. SKYCHART FUTURE CODE
5. SKYCHART FUTURE WINDOWS

When the forecast is clear, the sky may still be hazy, if the transparency forecast is poor.Īccuracy averaged over North America for a 30 day period: when the forecast is predicting less than 12 hours into the future, This forecast may miss low cloud and afternoon thunderstorms. Lighter shades of blue are increasing cloudiness and white is overcast. The colors are picked from what color the sky is likely to be, with The line, labeled Cloud Cover forecasts total cloud cover.

(Local time for Stellafane is -4.0 hours from GMT.) A digit 1 on top of a 3 means 13:00 or 1pm. The two numbers at the top of a column is the time. The colors of the blocks are the colors from CMC's forecast maps for that hour. Summary: In the rows labeled "sky conditions", find a column of blue blocks. Summarizes CMC's forecast images just for StellafaneĪnd the surroundings out to about 10 miles. So, I (Attilla Danko) wrote a script to generate the images like the one above It can be a chore to find the one map that tells you if you can observe tonight. CMC's numerical weather forecasts are unique because they are specifically designed for astronomers.īut they have 1180 forecast maps. The data comes from a forecast model developed by Allan Rahill of theĬanadian Meteorological Centre. It's a prediction of when Stellafane, VT, will have good weather for astronomical observing. At a glance, it shows when it will be cloudy or clear for the

SKYCHART FUTURE MAC OS X

The "Quit" menu command has moved from the File menu to the "Sk圜hart III" menu, for better conformance with Apple's Mac OS X interface guidelines.Starparty and telescope making convention. The Mac OS X version now has the main window's "close" button enabled clicking it quites the application. (This warning can safely be ignored, however.) The Mac OS X installer/updater application should no longer display a warning on Macs with more than 2.0 GB of RAM. The Mac OS X version of Sk圜hart III can now launch properly on Macs with 2.0 GB of RAM or more installed.

SKYCHART FUTURE CODE

Removed timing code in the Mac OS X version that was causing a performance-profiling dialog to appear sporadically.

SKYCHART FUTURE UPDATE

This update replaces it with the 32-bit version.įixed a crash in the Mac OS X version that occurred when moving the mouse inside a progress-bar dialog.

SKYCHART FUTURE WINDOWS

Previous versions of the Windows installer for Sk圜hart III installed a 16-bit version of the uninstall application (UnWise.exe). (The previous expressions "blew up" and displayed highly unrealistic results after roughly 10,000 years from J2000.) For the time period 1600 - 2100 A.D., the previous (IAU 1976) expressions for precession are still used. These new expressions should provide realistic results for a much wider interval of +/- 500,000 years from J2000. The star type for single stars is now simply listed as "Star".įor years outside 1600 - 2100 A.D., the program uses new expressions for the precession of the equinox provided by W. The object type for the Sun is now displayed as "Star" for the major planets as "Planet" for moons as "Moon". In the "Object Info" window, a number of text strings and buttons were rearranged.

SKYCHART FUTURE FULL

In the chart legend, the full names of deep sky objects are being displayed, instead of abbreviations. a search for "Jupiter" will also find "J��ºpiter", and a search for "Saturn" will also find "S��¤turn".

When case is ignored, diacritics are also ignored - e.g. This ensures that accented and other european-language characters will translate properly between Mac and Windows.Ī case-sensitive search for an object name is now sensitive to both case and diacritics (e.g. Īll strings in data files, and settings descriptions in settings files, are converted to Windows Latin-1 encoding before being written to disk. (The computer's regional settings are used to determine the locale.) Decimal points in text import files and settings files are always assumed to be the US (".") decimal-point character, for consistency. The decimal-point character is now locale-specific decimals are displayed as "," in European locales, and "." in North America. A number of changes were made to support better internationalization/localization: