**************************************************************** Cartes du Ciel, Sky Charts 2.44 November 28 1999 Patrick Chevalley http://www.astrosurf.org/astropc pchev@geocities.com **************************************************************** This program enables you to draw sky charts, according to the data of 15 catalogues of stars and nebulae, as well as the position of planets, asteroids and comets. It is possible to choose the program language. At the moment French, English, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan and Dutch are available. Installation : -------------- 0. This program work with Windows 95/98 or Windows NT4 . A Pentium processor is recommended. If you have a old copy of COMCTL32.DLL in \windows\system (file older than 08/24/96) you must upgrade to the last version from Microsoft at : http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/ie/comctrl.asp 1. If this is the first installation of Sky Charts, you must create the directory for the package yourself. For example " C:\CIEL " 2. Copy the self extracting file to this directory and run it. If you install an update, check the box " Overwrite files without prompting ". You must install all the packages in the same directory. It is also possible to indicate the destination directory in the corresponding field. Then click " OK " 3. You may remove the self-extracting archive. 4. See "lisezmoi.txt ", "readme.txt" or " ciel.hlp " for more information. If you create a shortcut for the program " ciel.exe ", you must also specify the installation directory in the " Start in: " field properties of the shortcut. At the first execution of CIEL.EXE you are prompted for your language, or if you already run another version go to "Configuration->Langue" menu to change the language. Mail to pchev@geocities.com for any comment or suggestion. Initialization: --------------- After installation, the program is configured to use "Bright Stars" as star catalogue. To use other star catalogues you might have installed, it is necessary to launch the program and then click on "Catalogues Parameters", enter 45 in "Field Min." for " Bright Stars Catalog ". Activate the check box for the new catalogues, for example: "Sky2000 ", " Tycho Catalog", " Tycho Input Catalog". Check if there is no overlap in the "Min. and Max." field width for the catalogues, and indicate 0 for the "Min." of the last catalogue entry. If a catalogue is installed in another directory, adjust the field " File " correspondingly. You do not have to modify all these parameters immediately after installation, because they can be adjusted later according to your requirements. See the online help for more details on the initialization procedure. In some peculiar network configuration your modem can dial-up when you start ciel.exe, or your network is not detected and the "Online resources" function stay grayed. To solve this problemes, run "options.exe" and choice "1 Do not control network presence at startup". Removing the program: --------------------- To completely remove this program you have to delete the installation directory and all the subdirectories as well as the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Astro_PC\Ciel. Use the program "options.exe" choice "3" to remove this registry key. Terms and conditions : ---------------------- "Cartes du Ciel" is a freeware. You can freely install and use an unlimited number of copies for your personal usage or redistribute it on any support under the restriction that you must not modify it and that you have to include all the documentation files. Any commercial use is however prohibited. For the conditions and citations of the single catalogues, please refer to the original descriptions in the files ".TXT" in the subdirectory "CAT\". Downloading ----------- The installation files are distributed in several packages in order to facilitate the transfers and the choice of the components of your interest. cdcbase.exe Basic package 3.4 Complete program version 2.44, 2.44 Mb Bright Stars Cat (9096 stars to Jan 9 magnitude 6.5), 40'000 nebulae 2000 from 6 catalogues (NGC+IC, LBN, RC3, OCL, GCM, GPN), elements of planets, comets and asteroids. (Note : this elements are distributed with permission from CBAT. Please refresh regularly updated version from their site.) ............................................................................. 0.5 Mb cdcsatxy.exe Planetary Positions of the satellites of Satellites Nov 14 Mars,Jupiter,Saturn and Uranus 1999 between 1997 and 2020. ............................................................................. 0.4 Mb cdcdss.exe Realsky® support DLL and header files required to files Sep 5 use RealSky or DSS CD-rom 1999 ............................................................................. Additional catalogues: ---------------------- cdcsky.exe Sky2000 6.3 Mb Master Stars Catalog 300' 000 stars to magnitude 9. Sep 22 1999 ............................................................................. cdcvar.exe Variables 1.9 68'179 variable stars from Mb GCVS, NSV and EVS Nov 27 1999 ............................................................................. cdcmult.exe Multiples 1.8 78' 100 multiple stars from Mb WDS. Apr 4 1999 ............................................................................. 1.3 Mb cdcpgc.exe PGC 73,197 galaxies from PGC catalog Sep 22 1999 ............................................................................. 0.4 Mb Examples of additionnal external cdcext01.exe External catalogues (Hyades, Pleiades, Sep 8 4c, RNGC, HII areas). 1999 ............................................................................. Tycho Catalog 1'058'332 stars to magnitude 11 --------------------------------------------- cdctycn.exe Tycho North 5.9 Tycho catalog North +90° to Mb +22.5° Sep 22 1999 ............................................................................. cdctyce.exe Tycho Equ. 5.3 Tycho catalog Equator +22.5° to Mb -22.5° Sep 22 1999 ............................................................................. cdctycs.exe Tycho South 6.8 Tycho catalog South -22.5° to Mb -90° Sep 22 1999 ............................................................................. Tycho Input Catalog 3'154'204 stars to magnitude 12.1 ----------------------------------------------------- 0.9 Mb ticn900.exe Tycho Input N90 Tycho Input Catalog North +90° Sep 22 to +67.5° 1999 ............................................................................. 3.5 Mb ticn675.exe Tycho Input N67.5 Tycho Input Catalog North Sep 22 +67.5° to +45° 1999 ............................................................................. 4.8 Mb ticn450.exe Tycho Input N45 Tycho Input Catalog North +45° Sep 22 to +22.5° 1999 ............................................................................. 4.9 Mb ticn225.exe Tycho Input N22.5 Tycho Input Catalog North Sep 22 +22.5° to +0° 1999 ............................................................................. 5.3 Mb tics225.exe Tycho Input S22.5 Tycho Input Catalog South -0° Sep 22 to -22.5° 1999 ............................................................................. 5.9 Mb tics450.exe Tycho Input S45 Tycho Input Catalog South Sep 22 -22.5° to -45° 1999 ............................................................................. 5.7 Mb tics675.exe Tycho Input S67.5 Tycho Input Catalog South -45° Sep 22 to -67.5° 1999 ............................................................................. 1.4 Mb tics900.exe Tycho Input S90 Tycho Input Catalog South Sep 22 -67.5° to -90° 1999 ............................................................................. Search Index ------------ 1.9 Mb Index to search by Smithsosian cdcixsao.exe SAO Astrophysical Observatory SAO Sep 22 1999 number ............................................................................. 4 Mb Index to search by Bonner cdcixbd.exe BD Sep 22 Durchmusterung and Southern 1999 Durchmusterung BD number ............................................................................. 5.2 Mb cdcixcd.exe CD Index to search by Cordoba Sep 22 Durchmusterung CD number 1999 ............................................................................. 3.8 Mb Index to search by Cape cdcixcp.exe CPD Photographic Durchmusterung CPD Sep 22 1999 number ............................................................................. 3.1 Mb Index to search by Henry Draper cdcixhd.exe HD catalog number including Sep 22 1999 extentions. ............................................................................. 0.3 Mb cdcixgc.exe GC Index to search by Boss General Sep 22 Catalog GC number 1999 ............................................................................. Original catalogues conversion utilities : You may use this programs to convert original catalogue files for use with "Sky Charts" This programs are intended only if you already own the original catalog to avoid you have to download another version. If this is not the case I suggest you download the smallest binary version for Tycho, Tycho Input or GSC Compact. 1' 058' 332 stars to magnitude 250 Kb 11.5 convtyc.zip Tycho Catalogue I/239 (103 Mb gziped) Sep 22 1999 Required file : tyc_main.dat in Unix format (without CR) ............................................................................. 3' 154' 204 stars to magnitude 250 Kb 12.1 Catalogue I/197A (51 Mb convtic.zip Tycho Input compressed) Sep 22 1999 Required files : tic1 , tic2 , tic3 , tic4 in Unix format (without CR) ............................................................................. 19'000'000 stars to magnitude 15 Catalogue I/220 (350 Mb gziped) 250 Kb Required files : 9537 files nnnn.gsc on two CD convgsc.exe HST Guide Star New version : allow to filter Sep 22 1999 multiple entries and non stellar objects. note: The original FITS file may also be use directely. ............................................................................. Last update January 13, 2000 P. Chevalley