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29 Aprile 2005 Postato da: Marco Lovera
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DistantSuns English











Distant Suns 5.0




Welcome to all astronomy and Amiga fans. Unfortunately seem to be not much
but, like a wiseman saying, better few but good, naturaly I'm in this formation.
Many of you should listen something about Distant Suns that is the best program in
our subject for many years. Although isn't updating it has something to say about
astronomy if now there are so many competitors like Digital Universe.




Dotation




Looking at the "package" of the program: it's a simple jellow envelope whitout
inscription that leave me perplexed bat nowaday we don't amaze. In it, we find the
english instructions and a CD-ROM contains the program.




Installation




Distant Suns 5.0 runs from CD, you need only to install its fonts with its own
installer and the game is made! If you really want to copy on Harddiask you only
copy all files in a drawer without images that will be load from CD.




Test




First of oll note that program will be lounched in different screen made that permit
an use from a not recent system. After running we have a first screenview with the
celestial map that should be configurated from your position: latitude and
longitude. In a little window find place different indications: date, time and other of
frequent use like zoom, AR and DEC movements with it own arrows. At this propose
I should say that I usually use the slider of Voyager that will be more intuitive, but
after we get used. Another problem about Distant Suns, always in the
movimentation, is that the DEC angle don't excel 45 degreess, so if you want to
increase the rear sight we must decrease the zoom. About date there is an intuitive
manual command easy to use. Always it this window we note: one botton for the
cardinal points on screen useful to see the sky it this four different positions; one
that permit to create costellation lines; one for the names; one for the most
important star names of the costellations; one for the NGC objects; one to visualizze
the the internal planets, medium and for, with external view to know, in real time,
the exact position of the various planets from the Earth.



Then we have three
buttons that permit to change the pointer functions: the first permit to open an
information window will all kind of details of the object you click and sometimes
there are so many images. The second permit to zoom each port of the sky you are
interested while the third place the view in the middle of the screen. We have also
many different functions in the menu` that I don't explain for space left. For
example function to center planets, stars and constellations. About graphiX note
that is better than Voyager especially for interface and The sky maps. All Has a
good draw and cores in some details for objects and stars: for example is really
beautiful to see the moon in a rendering or see the real brillance of the stars or
only represent it with color which corrispond the magnitude.



Naturaly you can
save the screen view in each moment like a image and after load, change and print
from different painting program. We also memorize an animation in ANIM format.
A real useful functions is the timer to update the map so you can have, in each
minute, the real map over your balcony. All the programis supplied with many
different images from space probe.




Conclusions




In my opinion Distant Suns will represent the best program that will satisfy all
astronomist in owr nights search. Any improvement can made but it seems to be
the lastone version becouse if it's more cheop top it sells a few number of copies.
From the age Distant Suns is allready an actual program.




Test Configuration:




A1200 + Blizzar IV 68030 50Mhz + 16 Mb Fast Ram + HD 420 Mb + CD-ROM 4x




Riccardo Ghiglione



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