IFAS CD's and eclipse shades on sale in Galway

Hi,

John Flannery has some eclipse shade which he'll be selling at the IFAS stand at the starparty. John Also put together another software CD (which I am busily running off copies of!) which will be on sale also at EUR2 (I think?). Great value for money anyway, lots of cool software and docs and the CD's even have labels on them this time! Detailed list below.



Welcome to the 2nd IFAS Software CD
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The software on this CD is "as is" - we do not directly support any technical queries on its use unfortunately.


It represents just a small sample of the bewildering amount of astronomical software available. A lot of the
software is written by a dedicated band of amateur astronomers in their spare time and we encourage people to
support the concept of shareware.


We welcome feedback on any aspect of the CD, suggestions about your favourite software, details of updated
releases of widely used packages, or any other comments on astronomy in Ireland. You can reach us at the
following email address:- skynotes


Clear skies in your explorations in astronomy!


The IFAS Committee -- www.irishastronomy.org


Connacht Star Party, Galway, January 2006.




CD Index
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Directory Description
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html a pot-pourri of html files saved over the last few years by John Flannery. The saved web pages cover
a wide variety of astronomical topics, detail interesting web links, lists, etc. You may even find
some recipe pages that somehow managed to find their way into the archive! The files should be
unzipped into their own directory (about 1,500 files in total). A word of warning if you are copying
these files for someone; you should move them all back into a zip archive because copying the files
individually will take a very long time.


sky_2006 a collection of html files pertaining to celestial phenomena throughout 2006. Details include comets due,
meteor showers, anniversary dates, etc. These files are referenced for the bimonthly sky notes in the
IFAS newsletter Arcturus.


utilities a suite of useful Windows-XP utilities;

- GoogleEarth . . . the satellite image and map viewer produced by Google

- avg70free . . . AVG free anti-virus software

- iTunesSetup . . . Apple Inc. iTunes MP3 and PodCast download software

- copernicdesktop . . . a hard disk indexing utility that is very, very good

- ToolBarSetUp . . . installs the eBay toolbar to Internet Explorer

- MicrosoftAntiSpyware . . . Microsoft's anti-spyware utility (Beta)

- Adobe Acrobat Reader . . . version 7.0 of the popular pdf document reader

- WinZip 8.1 . . . file compression software

- adviser . . . Detailed analysis of your PC's hardware spec (Belarc)

- FONTS . . . a directory containing some True-Type fonts of interest that were
gleaned from Anthony Murphy's www.mythicalireland.com web site


pdfs Adobe Acrobat readable files of interest. This directory is further sub-divided into;

- ARCTURUS . . . the complete archive of the IFAS magazine uploaded bimonthly to our site

- IFAS HANDBOOKS . . . the three observing handbooks produced to date

- MAG6 STAR ATLAS . . . a set of star charts to magnitude 6.5 produced by Japanese amateur
astronomer Toshimi Taki. The charts can be printed on A4 and then
blown up to A3 size (the recommended scale) with a photocopier.

- MAG8 STAR ATLAS . . . an even more detailed atlas to magnitude 8.5 produced by Toshimi Taki.
The 146 charts can be printed on A4 along with the 3 more detailed
charts. An amazing resource that was distributed free at the end of 2005.

- BOOKLETS . . . Contains the NASA Special Reference publication on the 2006 March 29
total solar eclipse, along with a couple of other booklets. The One
Degree field document is a series of charts showing the visibility of
a huge number of deep sky objects in an eyepiece yielding a 1deg FOV.
It also contains the recently released 365days -- a 407 page book on
the sky in 2006 published to the www.universetoday.com web site.

- ARTICLES . . . mostly sky tours gleaned from the www.cloudynights.com Small Wonders
series. There are also a few other observing list documents.


software the bulk of the CD content is made of up software to draw star charts, compute ephemerides, log
observations, do image processing, and a bewildering array of other utilities. If you have a
favourite that is not on the CD then do let us know so we can include it in future.

besides the following software, we also include OCCULT, a lunar occultation program, in a sub-directory.



Name Type Description
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ACE-1.0 Almanac Performs various astronomy calculations
ae10 Almanac Various ephemerides
alm210 Almanac Various ephemerides
alw203 Misc Astronomy Lab
AmateurObsLog Observing Log your observations
aplc3 Misc Performs various astronomy calculations
aprtyc Observing Calculate appulses of asteroids with stars
AstroArt-2.01 Imaging Processes photographs
AstroByte Observing Log your observations
AstroByteLog Observing Log your observations
AstroMeeus Almanac Performs various astronomy calculations
astronen Almanac Various ephemerides
AstroWinMeeus Almanac Performs various astronomy calculations
avlbasic30 Solar System Virtual Moon Atlas
Binary Misc Simulate the light curve of eclipsing binaries
C88-1.2 Planetarium
cfw-1.4.0-e Solar System Comet observing
CoeliStella2000-6.011 Planetarium
Comet Solar System Comet data
CometsData Solar System Comet data
CometViewer-2.6 Solar System Comet data
CoolSky-2.0 Planetarium
cs Solar System Comet data
CyberSky-3.3 Planetarium
dance Solar System Orrey
Dance-2.71 Solar System Orrey
designermoon Solar System Lunar observing
DistantSuns-4se Planetarium
EB_Min23 Observing Eclipsing binary stars
EBMin16 Observing Eclipsing binary stars
Eclipse Eclipses Calculate circumstances of lunar and solar eclipses
eclipse2 Eclipses Calculate circumstances of lunar and solar eclipses
EMapWin-1.21 Eclipses Calculate circumstances of lunar and solar eclipses
emapwin_eng_1_21 Eclipses Calculate circumstances of lunar and solar eclipses
ephtleva Almanac Calculate various ephemerides
graphdis2 Observing GraphDark
graphpat2 Observing Some fixes for GraphDark
Heliov20 Solar System Solar coordinates
Heliov31zip Solar System Solar coordinates
HomePlanet-Full-3.1 Planetarium
HomePlanet-Lite-3.0 Planetarium
H-Rcalculator-2.0 Misc H-R diagram simulation
ice1 Almanac US Naval Observatory
ice2 Almanac Interactive Computer Ephemeris
ice3 Almanac (install all 4 zip archives)
ice4 Almanac
installregistax3a Imaging
jme3 Solar System Jovian Moon Events
js_setup Solar System Jovian Moon Events
jupiter2_setup Solar System Visibility of Jupiter's satellites
jupos_e Solar System Visibility of Jupiter's satellites
jupsat95(1) Solar System Visibility of Jupiter's satellites
LC200 Solar System Lunar observing
lcd153is Solar System Lunar observing
libs Solar System Plot lunar librations
low31lite Solar System Calculate lunar occultations
LunarOccWkbench-3.0 Solar System Calculate lunar occultations
LunarPhase-2.62 Solar System Trial version of lunar observing toolkit
MasterConverter-2.54 Misc Conversion of various units of measure
meri485 Almanac Various Solar System ephemerides
Messier-2.1 Observing Images of all the Messier objects
Messier-2.1-data Observing Use in conjunction with Messier-2.1
MessierUltimateLog-3.0 Observing Log your observations of the Messier objects
messmara Observing Compute visibility of Messier objects
MOG-1.0 Observing Slide show of the Messier objects
moonc60 Solar System Visibility of the youngest Moon plus lots more
MoonMan Solar System Chart of the Moon
MoonMap Solar System Chart of the Moon
natsats Solar System Positions of the satellites of Uranus
OBSetup Solar System Orrey
om_setup20 Misc Create your own planisphere
oologapp Observing Overlooked objects log
orbits Solar System Good educational program
PeriodTable-1.01 Misc
PlanetsOrbits-1.5 Solar System Orrey
plsv30 Solar System Find out what planet is on view
RegiStax3D24 Imaging Webcam imaging
Registax_Controls Imaging Webcam imaging
Registax_FastStart Imaging Webcam imaging
sac72 Observing Saguaro Astronomy Club's Deep Sky Database
sat260en Solar System Planetary satellites
Sat-2.6 Misc Earth orbiting satellites
SatellitesOfSaturn-2.0 Solar System Positions of Saturn's satellites
satsat2 Solar System Positions of Saturn's satellites
SatScape Misc Earth orbiting satellites
shadows2 Misc Create your own sundial
Shadows-1.6 Misc Create your own sundial
simsol10 Solar System Orrey
SkyGlobe-4.0 Planetarium
SkyMapPro8-eval Planetarium
SkyMapW-3.2.1 Planetarium
slidescr Misc Create your own screen saver

Well done lads, exceptional cd, am trying to get a display board for the IFAS stand unless seanie has not got one. Will be putting together a cd myself on Challenger.

Look foward to seeing everyone there. Full programme avalible for download at www.galwayastronomyclub.ie

Ronan Newman
GAC

How can I get a CD if I not going to Galway?

Well done lads, exceptional cd, am trying to get a display board for the IFAS stand unless seanie has not got one.

I have them Ronan! They're slightly out of shape, but wil do the trick! Bringing them with me tonight.

How can I get a CD if I not going to Galway?

Send a cheque or a postal order for 99.99 to me, and I'll get it to you sometime....

:lol:

Ah no, I'm sure Conor one of us can post it (or more, depending on how many are left) down to you, then you can make copies yourself too. Even PM me your snail mail address and I'll post it...

Seanie.