What's new in Hallo northern sky 4.3.0b2
Mar 11, 2024
- Fixed a bug in downloading the comet file update.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.3.0 (Mar 8, 2024)
- Asteroiden database is now binary for speed. Added export possibility for MPCORB.DAT files. Removed the asteroid and comet editor.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.15f2 (Nov 21, 2023)
- Improved PA (position angle) measurement.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.15f (Sep 16, 2023)
- Fixed asteroid and comet update for newer Linux distributions.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.15d (Jul 8, 2023)
- Fixed a false error message when downloading ESO DSS images.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.15c (May 29, 2023)
- Improved the editor. Fixed the id for single instance running which was the same as ASTAP.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.15 (Apr 27, 2023)
- Added an option to disable telescope link to avoid errors. Fixed star boldness for the V16 and V17 star database. Fixed plotting stars in some areas. Removed statusbar1 message. Gave a title to a error download window. message.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.14b (Feb 28, 2023)
- Fixed a runtime error in settings for Linux and Mac version (when selecting non-English).
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.14a (Feb 19, 2023)
- Fixed a problem for moveaxis command for tracking solar objects.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.13 (Feb 15, 2023)
- Allowed only one instance of HNSKY (for link CCDciel), allowed text search for objects when not displayed.
- Fixed small refresh bug terrestrial view.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.12 (Feb 12, 2023)
- Revamped INDI telescope control. Improved solar object tracking.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.11b (Feb 1, 2023)
- Fixed a runtime error running under Linux. Some minor cosmetic corrections.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.11a (Jan 29, 2023)
- Fixed a bug in Tracking smooth solar object.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.11B3 (Jan 28, 2023)
- Added seconds for update interval, Add tracking smooth of comets and asteroid. See telescope popup menu
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.11 (Jan 25, 2023)
- Fixed INDI client. Added mount tracking rates to follow comets and asteroids.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.10 (Dec 14, 2022)
- Allow "Dark nights next days" display when running a system at UTC time but a different time zone.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.9 (Nov 16, 2022)
- Fixed a small star coverage problem.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.8a (Oct 31, 2022)
- Added some translations for angular measurement.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.8 (Oct 19, 2022)
- Fixed asteroid and comet track function (INS). Added a shortcut for menu no sidereal motion.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.7 (Sep 29, 2022)
- New czech.ini, fixed problem deepsky magnitude jumping to max. Adapt hint font size to other font settings. Fixed convergence problem comets. Increased the accuracy of comet calculations with an eccentricity close to 1.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.6 (Jul 25, 2022)
- Fixed direct screen refresh is comets or asteroids are selected.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.5 (Apr 29, 2022)
- Replace the TCP communication library. Overhauled Alpaca and INDI communication and fixed memory leaks.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.4a (Apr 25, 2022)
- Fixed a fatal error is switching from Alpaca to Ascom.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.4 (Apr 24, 2022)
- Fixed a problem in the Alpaca interface.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.3 (Feb 23, 2022)
- Added an option to the popup menu to measure distance.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.2 (Feb 11, 2022)
- Fixed instant refreshing time when repaint is done due to key press.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.1 (Feb 7, 2022)
- Simplified operation. Only switching between terrestrial and celestial mode.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.2.0 (Jan 21, 2022)
- Released the first macOS version. Redesigned rectangle selection. Fixed a star coverage program for SAO and PPM near celestial poles.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.33b (Dec 30, 2021)
- Fixed JPL orbital elements import for Chrome.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.33a (Dec 5, 2021)
- Fixed the date menu tab to the first tab.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.33 (Dec 5, 2021)
- Fixed importing JPL orbital elements.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.32 (Sep 8, 2021)
- Fixed selection of JPL ephemerides (DE430/431).
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.31a (Sep 5, 2021)
- Fixed a freeze by the comet unit for dates before 1995. Improved updating delta-t setting in date menu.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.31 (Jun 19, 2021)
- Fixed an other star coverage problem.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.30b (Jun 13, 2021)
- Fixed placing a rectangle at the celestial pole.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.30 (May 10, 2021)
- Fixed a star coverage problem (since dec 2020).
- Fixed printing of planet and deep-sky fits images.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.29 (May 10, 2021)
- Better fix for star coverage problem when the celestial pole is in the corner of the window.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.28 (Dec 31, 2020)
- Fixed some minor star coverage problem when the celestial pole is in the corner of the window.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.27 (Dec 12, 2020)
- Gaia online version adapted to eDR3. Uploaded the first new Gaia star databases based on Gaia release eDR3. Difference will be minimal.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.26 (Dec 7, 2020)
- Fixed slew to option.
- Could not be switched off.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.25 (Nov 12, 2020)
- Change the option slew to in the search window. Now in all cases the map will center on the searched object.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.24 (Oct 23, 2020)
- Fixed removing downloaded DSS files. Upgrade of the deepsky database for Cygnus
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.23 (Oct 13, 2020)
- Fixed swipe behavior for Linux version only. Happened if the left mouse button is pressed while mouse is moving.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.22 (Oct 5, 2020)
- Changed mouse position in RA, DEc to full resolution. Mouse click position to statusbar. Updated Bulgarian translation. Added popup menu to search window to allow to copy the list from search window to clipboard.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.21 (Sep 30, 2020)
- Identical as ß6 except after search with center on the telescope tracking is disabled.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.21 Beta 5 (Sep 21, 2020)
- Added new bandpass menu for DSS downloads. If you have installed HNSKY 4.1.21ß4, then please delete manually the install FITS files in documents/hnsky fits first.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.21 Beta 4 (Sep 14, 2020)
- Modified load fits option.
- The original fits directory is preserved.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.21 Beta 3 (Sep 13, 2020)
- Modified save-as for supplements, such that the supplement name is copied to object menu. Upgraded the supplement "M33 global clusters".
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.21 Beta 2 (Sep 13, 2020)
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.21 Beta 1 (Sep 11, 2020)
- Modfied FITS functionality. Number of FITS downloads is now unlimited. Added an option for only clearing visible FITS files. For faster access, the FITS file name contains now a RA, DEC position code.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.20 (Sep 1, 2020)
- Modified save-as for supplements, such that the supplement name is copied to object menu. Upgraded the supplement "M33 global clusters".
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.19 (Aug 28, 2020)
- Remove menu NAO DSS-image download since they shutdown their service. Fixed some problems with reading supplements. Added two supplements with global clusters of M31 and M33.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.18a (Aug 21, 2020)
- Fixed plotting FITS files across the celestial pole.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.18 (Jul 17, 2020)
- Fixed missing grid labels on the right side of the screen.
- Hungarian translation update available by István.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.17 (May 14, 2020)
- Fixed a problem when using the measuring frame in combination with dragging the map around. Update the main database and some star supplements.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.16 (Apr 15, 2020)
- Fixed an asteroid download problem. All MPC asteroids where loaded. Added a Sourceforge update link for asteroids and comets.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.15 (Mar 23, 2020)
- Fixed a double click problem in search window.
- Fixed an alignment problem and colour problem in menu move_to.
- Some code improvement.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.14 (Feb 24, 2020)
- Fixed a problem in selecting the external databases in hnsky_themes. Some code cleanup in the objectmenu.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.13 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Fixed some minor problems for downloading asteroids.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.12 (Jan 25, 2020)
- Modiefied the goto menu and added "slew_to" option to the search window.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.11 (Jan 15, 2020)
- Fixed problems using Simbad and Hyperleda downloads
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.10 (Jan 14, 2020)
- Fixed some problem in Simbad and Hyperleda downloads
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.9 (Jan 12, 2020)
- Removed night vision. (Use Win10 night light instead), made horizon thicker. Fixed animation menu for hnsky_themes.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.8 (Jan 7, 2020)
- Modified the asteroid download. Asteroids are now extracted from the full size file MPCORB.DAT. The small file of bright asteroids as previously provided by the Minor Planet Center is no longer available. Note that download take some time size since it is a very large file. The program extract a selection based on number of asteroids required and limiting magnitude as set.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.7b (Nov 24, 2019)
- Adapted the anchor of button "abreviations" from right to left. Should help in 4k display mode.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.7a (Nov 18, 2019)
- This version will hide the horizon line if you make it exactly the same colour as the RA, DEC grid.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.7 (Sep 12, 2019)
- Fixed a problem with the deepsky level slider. Adapted the server communication for frames import by the APT program.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.6c (Sep 5, 2019)
- Added an arm64 (aaarch64) version for Pi computers running a 64 bit operating system. Modified the http file download for this version.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.6b (Aug 28, 2019)
- Modified code for pulling a rectangle and measuring frame to be compatible with Raspian Buster.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.6 (Aug 26, 2019)
- Modified displaying FITS images that for all sources the same brightness settings are required. Fixed in themes version a display problem with image brightness trackbar.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.4a (Aug 20, 2019)
- Fixed deleting a mosaic rectangle. Updated help file description designing a mosaic.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.4 (Aug 19, 2019)
- Modified star database routine for small speed improvement. Removed JPL ephemerides links. In settings added buttons for path selection.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.3a (Aug 4, 2019)
- Some cosmetic improvements. In the Linux version added a watchdog for internet access.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.3 (Aug 1, 2019)
- Added Simbad online search. The RA, DEC grid gets ground colour below horizon.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.3ß (Jul 25, 2019)
- Test version with Simbad online search
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.2a (Jul 1, 2019)
- Fixed a problem in hnsky_themes version with the object menu. Added support for kchmviewer to read deepsky.chm file.
- Added a HNSKY themes version. For 64 bit systems two HNSKY versions are installed. The second HNSKY_themes follows the Win10 themes. Disadvantage is that the pull down menu text is always black. Select a lighter background colour to compensate.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.1 (Jun 28, 2019)
- Overhauled the menus to allow one source code for Windows, Linux and Linux Raspberry Pi. More space is introduced to prevent overlapping in other operating systems.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.1.0 Beta 1 (May 22, 2019)
- Deep sky objects are now in one single file "deep_sky.hnd". For deep sky level setting a seperate slider is created. Therefore any search will look through the whole database.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.5a (May 3, 2019)
- Change magnitude limit from vt to bt.
- Fixed search radius.
- Fixed astroid update for previous year data.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.5 (Apr 30, 2019)
- Magnitude of downloaded online database is now limited by magnitude setting in the object menu. this will speedup the process.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.4 (Apr 30, 2019)
- New, online query HyperLeda and Simbad is plotted in map! Ned still goes to browser.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.3a (Apr 15, 2019)
- Added get_position command to TCP/IP server.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.3 (Apr 11, 2019)
- Adapted to standard colour FITS files (naxis3=3). So any FITS files which is solved should be displayed correctly.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.2b (Apr 9, 2019)
- HNSKY version 4.0.2b, Greatly improved reading external fits files. Contrast/data range is better adapted.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.2a (Apr 4, 2019)
- Added: If asteroid file for this year is not available, download previous year.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.2 (Apr 2, 2019)
- Added precession correction for celestial north & south cross. Same for polar scope view.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.1ß1x (Mar 12, 2019)
- First edition with internal ASCOM Alpaca client.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0w4 (Dec 10, 2018)
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0w3 (Dec 9, 2018)
- Added missing ASCOM reporting.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0w2 (Dec 8, 2018)
- Fixed an ASCOM problem for LX200 driver.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0w (Dec 8, 2018)
- Added moon Charon (Pluto) internal and as supplement. Note Pluto and Charon are both rotating around barycenter which is outside Pluto, so it is not perfect.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0v (Nov 26, 2018)
- Fixed some artifacts drawn by the measuring frame at high zoom factors.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0u (Sep 20, 2018)
- A CCD frame is now a single object in supplement. This allow to retrieve the center position.
- Updated the server commands for CCD frame control.
- New frame angle definition conform PA for deep sky objects.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0t (Sep 18, 2018)
- Added a delete_frame command for the sever.
- Second name of object is reported after a server object search. For frames this is the frame center position.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0s (Aug 19, 2018)
- Fixed a problem in the object menu, selecting supplement 2.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0r (Aug 16, 2018)
- Minor corrections in editor.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0p (Jun 12, 2018)
- Added three supplements for Nereid (Neptune moon), Iapetus (Saturn moon) and Pasiphae (Jupiter Moon.) These supplements only work only with version 4.0.0p
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0o2 (Jun 12, 2018)
- Fixed Galilean moons calculation. Added in settings adjustment for Jupiter Great Red Spot transit times
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0o (Jun 6, 2018)
- Fixed again Fixed Galilean moons calculation. Added in settings adjustment for Jupiter Great Red Spot transit times
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0n (Jun 5, 2018)
- Fixed a bug in Jovian moons calculation and updated red spot calculation.
- Fixed night vision mode for Linux
- Added missing tyc_717.290 to Windows installer
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0m2 (Jun 5, 2018)
- Replaced editor since it was causing problems under Linux.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0L3 (Jun 4, 2018)
- Online version of Gaia has also star colors. Released version III of the G16 with all bright stars having colour information..
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0L2 (Jun 1, 2018)
- Fixed random but wrong colour indication for databases other then G16.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0L (May 31, 2018)
- HNSKY version 4.0.0L & new G16 database including Gaia colour information. This new database will only work with version 4.0.0L
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0j (May 23, 2018)
- Minor cosmetic improvements in menus
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0i2 (May 23, 2018)
- Cosmetic improvements in menus
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0i (May 21, 2018)
- Adapted to Hi-DPI settings up to 192 dpi
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0h1 (May 16, 2018)
- Compiled with compiler option Hi-DPI.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0h (May 11, 2018)
- HNSKY 4.0.0h, removed GSC star catalogue support.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0e (Apr 12, 2018)
- HNSKY version 4.0.0e, fixed broken FITS routine of 4.0.0d
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0d (Apr 11, 2018)
- Modified the "max magnitude" slider effect on asteroids. Less are displayed.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0c (Apr 5, 2018)
- build in a protection against compressed FITS files.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0b (Apr 1, 2018)
- Fixed a problem starting the editor containing a large file.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0a (Mar 28, 2018)
- HNSKY version 4.0.0a, fixed the position of the mosaic building rectangle for mean and apparent coordinate systems.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 (Mar 8, 2018)
- Program:
- Improved swipe functionality.
- New improved telescope cursor, the telescope is position is now shown as correct sized and orientated rectangle. Orientation can be set manually with mouse wheel while holding CTRL key down.
- Added possibility to design mosaics. (measuring frame on, hit HOME. To remove rectangle hit CTRL+DEL)
- Goto menu has slew to functionality if "track telescope is on".
- Three-state check-mark for asteroids and comets. Grayed=all, checked=auto
- Three-state check-mark for star names. Off=bright stars only, Grayed=supplement stars only. Checked=All star names.
- Vizier online server for star catalogue can be set in settings.
- Catalogues:
- Added PPMXL online star catalog.
- Added Lynds (LBN) supplement containing 1125 bright nebula as supplement and brightest to the deepsky level 3 database.
- Added Hickson Compact Groups of Galaxies (HCG as separate supplement and to the deepsky level 3 database.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC8j (Mar 5, 2018)
- Corrected field indication after auto-zoom
- Fixed check-mark indication asteroids
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC8i (Mar 5, 2018)
- Fixed north arrow problem. Track telescope setting is now saved.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC8g (Mar 3, 2018)
- If "track telescope is on", 1) the search window GOTO button will act as a "slew to", 2) Double clicking on object list will only report object info ignoring "center_on".
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC8f (Feb 22, 2018)
- Added three-state button for asteroids. Removed too faint LBN objects from databases level 3
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC8e (Feb 15, 2018)
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC8d (Feb 13, 2018)
- animation menu, fixed overlapping text.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC8b (Feb 12, 2018)
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC8 (Feb 11, 2018)
- HNSKY 4.0.0 RC8, fixed copy & paste editor in Linux. Correction north arrow. Added three-state check-mark for comets. Grayed=all comets, Checked=auto comets
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC7b (Feb 9, 2018)
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC7a (Feb 8, 2018)
- Fixed a accuracy problem for highly elliptical asteroids. Fixed degrees symbol telrad inidcator.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC7 (Feb 7, 2018)
- Fixed some problems in the editor
- Fixed several minor things in program
- Reintroduced double click left mouse button to center
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC6b (Feb 6, 2018)
- Added a sidereal on/off mode button to the settime menu. Preserved sidereal time when changing time in settime menu.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC6 (Feb 5, 2018)
- fixed north arrow. Introduced three-state for checkbox star names. Off=bright stars only, Grayed=supplement stars only. Checked=All star names.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC5a (Feb 3, 2018)
- statusbar hint can be copied again by clicking on it
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC5 (Jan 31, 2018)
- fixed seconds issue in animation menu and added translation labels.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC4b (Jan 30, 2018)
- Fixed seconds of time menu.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC4a (Jan 29, 2018)
- fixed shift+N,S,E,W,Z shortcuts
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC4 (Jan 28, 2018)
- Vizier online server for star catalogue can be set in settings, fixed polar view. Some other small fixes.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC3 (Jan 28, 2018)
- Added PPMXL online star catalog.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC2 (Jan 26, 2018)
- fixed tool buttons problem.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 RC1a (Jan 25, 2018)
- Fixed some menu hints. Fixed zooming problem while telescope cursor is on.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 14 (Jan 23, 2018)
- fixed error message UCAC4, some night mode fixing win10.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0b_FPC / 4.0.0 Beta 13c (Jan 22, 2018)
- some night mode fixing win7
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0b_FPC / 4.0.0 Beta 13b (Jan 22, 2018)
- Win10 night light option tiny modification.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0b_FPC / 4.0.0 Beta 13a (Jan 22, 2018)
- Fixed galactic coordinates, minor change Win10 night vision mode.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 13 (Jan 16, 2018)
- Fixed telescope tracking (telescope following).
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 12 (Jan 13, 2018)
- Fixed several small problems. The telescope is position is now shown as correct sized and orientated rectangle. Orientation can be set manually with mouse wheel while holding CTRL key down.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 11 (Jan 12, 2018)
- Fixed several small problems
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 9 (Jan 10, 2018)
- Improved swipe functionality.
- Allows swipe for 1/4 of screen without refresh.
- Fixed several small problems
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 8 (Jan 9, 2018)
- fixed time change problem, fixed move-to problem. Fixed Leda search. Updated Catalan, Esperanto and Spanish ini files.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 7 (Jan 9, 2018)
- added possibility to design mosaics. (measuring frame on, hit HOME. To remove rectangle hit CTRL+DEL) Updated the language files. Updated the help file. Fixed a problem with time zone input. Fixed zero's at measuring frame
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 5 (Jan 9, 2018)
- Fixed hints in bottom half of the screen. Added a Hickson Compact Groups of Galaxies (HCG) supplement (100x GALCL). Added the 100 HCG also to Deepsky level 3.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 4 (Jan 9, 2018)
- fixed slow start object menu.
New in Hallo northern sky 4.0.0 Beta 3 (Jan 3, 2018)
- First release, executable only. No changes in layout and functionality except swiping (left mouse button down) goes now very smooth with some overlap at fields <40 degrees. Mayor re-coding of graphic routine was required.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0b_FPC (Nov 29, 2017)
- Asteroid editor sees now .txt files from Minor planet making import easier.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0a1_FPC (Oct 12, 2017)
- Fixed the help call of the editor
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0a_FPC (Oct 12, 2017)
- fixed the help of the setting menu. HNS_FV version 0.0.0ß27, added HFD and FWHM values to the info caption.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0 Beta 18 FPC (Sep 30, 2017)
- fixed some non-English language problems and overhauled repaint.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0 Beta 17 FPC (Sep 28, 2017)
- Overhaul drawing routine. Prepared for translations.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0 Beta 16 FPC (Sep 22, 2017)
- Server which can communicate with APT & CCDCiel
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0 Beta 13 FPC (Sep 14, 2017)
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0 Beta 12 FPC (Sep 7, 2017)
- Updated the server commands for communication with Astro photography Tool & CCDciel in the near future.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.5g / 3.4.0 Beta 11 FPC (Aug 23, 2017)
- Fixed auto daylight savings in FPC version.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.5f / 3.4.0 Beta 9 (Aug 17, 2017)
- Minor improvements in search window.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0 Beta 8 (Aug 16, 2017)
- Improved again swipe reliability.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0 Beta 6 (Aug 14, 2017)
- Fixed auto connect telescope, swipe cursor update.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.5e2 (Aug 14, 2017)
New in Hallo northern sky 3.4.0 Beta 5 (Aug 14, 2017)
- Fixed automatic daylight savings for time zones in America.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.5e (Aug 13, 2017)
- Fixed automatic daylight savings for time zones in America.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.5a (Aug 12, 2017)
- Delayed the swipe cursor a few pixels. Fixed asteroid import from Occult.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.5 (Aug 11, 2017)
- Added basic swipe screen functionality. hold CTRL-key and press left mouse button to swipe with the mouse. If swipe is enabled in settings, no CTRL key press is required. It is a very basic swipe-screen function. Screen is not updated until the mouse button is released. Note that near the celestial poles you swipe a globe which turns around the poles.
- Window version 3.4.0ß3_FPC with a server. Work in progress. Intension is to continue with the FPC version only.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.4d (Jul 31, 2017)
- Minor fix in measuring frame.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.4c (Jun 30, 2017)
- Fixed the mouse position indication in cylindrical projection.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.4b (Jun 26, 2017)
- Fixed a path problem opening a FIT's file using the pull down menu.
- updated Spanish language module, "Deepsky level 3" and "Sharpless2, catalog of HII regions (emission nebulae).sup"
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.4a (Jun 22, 2017)
- Fixed updating FITS checkbox in object menu. Improved some night vision colors in Moon & dark skies window. Updated deep sky database for Sharpless-2 objects without H-alpha emissions.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.4 (Jun 21, 2017)
- Updated the Moon & dark skies window:
- Added adjustable colors for the twilights
- astronomical twilight definition is adjustable
- added date scrolling.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.3f (Jun 7, 2017)
- added to UCAC4 info the APASS B-V magnitude for estimating star color and the calculated star temperature and class.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.3e (Jun 5, 2017)
- Reintroduced midnight=24:00 hours as far as possible. I was not happy with the temporary 23:00 hours solution. The time input still doesn't allow 24:00 hours /12:00 PM and will show midnight as next day at 00:00 hours/12:00 AM. Since it is a standard module mirroring the operating system time format it can't be changed.
- Fixed a problem with syntax check for supplements.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.3d3 (May 22, 2017)
- fixed a font problem in Windows 7.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.3d2 (May 17, 2017)
- New Catalan help file by Antoni Clavell and updated Esperanto translation of the program by Ramon Perera. Windows version 3.3.3d2, added some words to translations.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.3d (May 11, 2017)
- Fixed a problem that in rare case magnitude of stars was not given.
- Added the Win10 Night light option to the night vision mode. Note this will only work if you have the latest Win10 updates and it will take 10 minutes to reach maximum red color shift. If switches off, Win10 will take 10 minutes to restore the normal colors.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.3c (May 7, 2017)
- Fixed a problem in the status as introduced inversion
- Fixed a problem with the time menu
- Fixed unreliable zooming using rectangle.
- Removed night vision from menu.
- Fixed manual entry in Object and Animation menu.
- Fixed presentation of some Ok buttons
- Adjusted some window layouts.
- Removed INDI message during start.
- Closed deepsky circles since bug in FPC was fixed.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.3b (May 5, 2017)
- added CTRL+double mouse click for telescope pointing
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.3 (Apr 18, 2017)
- Added access to wide field DSS images from NAO. This allows large fields up to 6° similar as Skyview
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.2d (Apr 13, 2017)
- Several minor corrections
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.2c (Apr 10, 2017)
- Some minor improvements.
- The Linux version is no longer ß. Will be identified with same version ending with FPC.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.2a (Apr 9, 2017)
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.2 (Apr 8, 2017)
- Introduced edit menu for supplements and smart import menu for supplement editor.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.1a (Mar 7, 2017)
- Updated the help file and non-English files.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.1 (Mar 3, 2017)
- SIGNIFICANT UPDATE:
- Added a modern date & time input and a monthly calender. The calendar doesn't allow dates beyond year 1752 and 9999 so there is still an traditional input. The midnight button is now setting 23:00 hours. since 24:00 hours is not allowed in the current setup.
- Automatic daylight saving adjustment for time zones in the setting menu
- The daylight saving is based on the current valid rules and works from 1977 (arbitrary) to year 20.000+. No effort is made to follow historical changes using a so called Time Zone Database. Using the function buttons F3, F4, F5, F6 it is possible to step through the daylight saving dates changes.
- Uses the decimal separator dot or comma as specified in your (Windows) system settings . However the dot as separator is always accepted.
- Both the daylight saving and date & time menu took significant effort to implement. Please review and report any bug or problem.
- Some work for the translation files is still required.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.0f (Feb 27, 2017)
- added the ASCOM telescope driver park,/unpark, setpark, home and tracking functions
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.0e (Feb 25, 2017)
- included comets in the min size: auto mode of the OBJECT menu.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.0d (Feb 23, 2017)
- added a help link for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.0c2 (Feb 22, 2017)
- Changed open cluster contour to dotted line to follow the convention.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.0b (Feb 21, 2017)
- Added comet and minor planet velocity to statusbar message. Unit is arcsec/hour sky motion. Could be used in PHD2 for comet guiding.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.0a (Feb 17, 2017)
- Added α, δ symbols for RA and DEC If you don;t like this select English languge in settings menu. Updated non English ini files. Updated the help file
New in Hallo northern sky 3.3.0 (Feb 16, 2017)
- Added support for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris (like DE430, DE431).
- Covering years –13,200 to +17,191 Overhauled planet unit.
- Added apparent position.
- Updated time menu and added Julian day input.
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris will bring high accuracy for occultations.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.7f (Feb 2, 2017)
- Fixed a problem in IAU designation. Fixed some initialization problems after closing polar view window.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.7d1 (Dec 19, 2016)
- improvement in star_index
- Removed some PGC and vdB doubles in the deepsky database
- The current deepsky database is one of the finest error free compilations available
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.7b (Dec 14, 2016)
- added tool bar buttons to the "set_time" menu. Fixed a small problem in the drawing mode. Updated Deepsky level 3.hnd.. Added VDB supplement.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.7a (Dec 7, 2016)
- Changed the north/south line in dotted line for meridian flip and other reasons.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.7 (Dec 7, 2016)
- All numbers on the altitude grid and horizon have now orientation zenith. This to assist you with orientation and it looks nicer.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.6d (Oct 31, 2016)
- overhauled the bright star (text) find routine
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.6c (Oct 21, 2016)
- Overhauled the bright star (text) find routine.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.6b (Oct 13, 2016)
- Introduced the 290-9 and 290-5 star database format. Reduced file size again with 10% and 17%. Each star in the Gaia or U16 databases takes around 5 bytes disk space. These database versions are compacter but there is no gain in speed. You could keep the older databases for time being. For technical details see the help file. Made the star plotting routine a little faster. Disabled the mouse find function for disabled deep sky database.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.5a (Oct 13, 2016)
- New compacter format for the star databases without quality loss. TYC and TUC record size goes from 11 to 10 byte saving 9% space. U16 and G17 go from 7 to 6 bytes saving 14% space. Works only with very latest HNSKY versions 3.2.5a en 3.3ß30. These database versions are compacter but there is no gain in speed. You could keep the old databases. For technical details see help file.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.5 (Oct 5, 2016)
- For above compacter 290 star databases.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.4a (Sep 27, 2016)
- Fixed a problem in reading U16 star database type 290 with 7 byte record size.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.4 (Sep 27, 2016)
- Introduced 7 byte record size in 290 database.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.3b (Sep 15, 2016)
- Gaia DR1 support using Vizier online database up to magnitude 20. Gaia proper motion implemented.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.3a (Sep 6, 2016)
- fixed an stream error if switching off the online database. Adapted plotting range of the TUC database to magnitude 15.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.3.002 (Aug 8, 2016)
- Installer will replace the d32 files with .290 files! This star database format will be faster and allow larger star databases
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.2f (Jul 14, 2016)
- Adaption is font size handeling for Calibre.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.2e (Jul 7, 2016)
- Night vision menu check mark was working.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.2d (May 18, 2016)
- Added an image on/off button to the object menu. Fixed color change option of main menu in menu color settings
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.2c (Apr 27, 2016)
- Fixed an exception error only occuring under Wine (Linux). Better adaption of the stars density to the window size.
- Printing. The printing routine will rebuild and adapt the screen view to the printer resolution. Laser printers will produce sharp and good quality prints. The size of the window and monitor resolution are irrelevant. From version 3.2.2b the size of the printed stars is no longer adapted to the DPI resolution of the printer. A low resolution of of 72 or 144 DPI will give the correct star size (a few pixels) for printing on paper. If you select 1200 DPI you will get much smaller stars (still a few pixels), more intended for zoomable digital maps. You could use this for printing to PDF
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.2a (Mar 11, 2016)
- Improved azimuth in degrees indication.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.2ß7 (Mar 2, 2016)
- Added a milky way panorama (is slow, add PNG to program directory), See second tab OBJECT menu, updated deep sky database with 150 Sharpless-2 objects, fix in equinox ASCOM communication, introduced galactic coordinates, auto size filter in object menu. Filter function nows also works for supplements!! Reintroduced INS button for animation and Cross-hair. Several tiny corrections.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.2ß4 (Mar 1, 2016)
- Executables and modified files only (version 2016-2-29) Added a milky way panorama (is slow, add PNG to program directory)
- See second tab OBJECT menu, updated deep sky database with 150 Sharpless-2 objects, fix in equinox ASCOM communication, introduced galactic coordinates auto size filter in object menu.
- Filter function nows also works for supplements!!
- Reintroduced INS button for animation.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.2ß3 (Feb 24, 2016)
- Added a milky way panorama (is slow, add PNG to program directory), See second tab OBJECT menu, updated deep sky database with 150 Sharpless-2 objects, fix in equinox ASCOM communication.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.1 (Feb 5, 2016)
- Allowing access to Axel Mellinger low resolution sky survey. From the pop-up menu select "Get DSS image from internet", "Skyview" for downloading wide field FITS files. If you select a field larger the 3.5 degrees height it will select the Mellinger survey. Default is the MELL-R (red) of the survey.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.1ß4 (Feb 1, 2016)
- More improvements. You can also try halpha survey by modifying download link. Maximum field is limited at around 140 degrees by Skyview.
- Minimu pixel size is 350x350 unless you pull a box large then 350x350 pixels.
- For better quality add &sampler=Lanczos to the Skyview instruction in settings.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.1ß3 (Feb 1, 2016)
- Allowing access to Axel Mellinger low resolution sky survey. From the pop-up menu select "Get DSS image from internet", "Skyview" for downloading wide field FITS files. If you select a field larger the 3.5 degrees height it will select the Mellinger survey. Default is the MELL-R (red) of the survey.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0b (Jan 26, 2016)
- Dropdown of comboboxes has now variable width. Fixed statusbar message flickering during animation. Fixed minor problem with trying to pull a mouse rectangle during animation. Added a half second in the routine for UTC hint to fix a rare problem in julian date to string routine.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0a1 (Jan 25, 2016)
- New powerful animation menu
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß12 Beta (Jan 22, 2016)
- Fixed an animation problem for units larger then 1, e.g. step size of 10 days.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß11 Beta (Jan 21, 2016)
- Improved control of animation. Stop/pause/continue all possible. Progress bar added.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß10b Beta (Jan 18, 2016)
- Major modifications. Animation window will allow you to follow Hale Bopp comet and it's return in 2500 years. (search for bopp*). All planetary objects can now be followed rigidly. Furthermore have a look to proper motion of stars of M4 using UCAC4 (zoom in) with an interval of 10 years over the next 5000 years or so. Allowing now running with secondary stardatabase only. Make primary in object menu blank.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß9b Beta (Jan 18, 2016)
- Active window more automated.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß8 Beta (Jan 12, 2016)
- Minor improvements. Smoother moon orbit lines.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß7 Beta (Jan 11, 2016)
- Mouse button routines updated. Added dates&time to tracks, Fixed reset for Wine under Linux, some internal cleanup
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß6 Beta (Jan 11, 2016)
- Mouse buttons routines updated.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß5 Beta (Jan 11, 2016)
- Beta version, executable only. Minor corrections
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß4 Beta (Jan 9, 2016)
- Beta version, executable only.
- Improved locking of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.
- NEO's distance to 0.05 a.u. including comets.
- Improved displaying distance of NEO's at very short distances.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß3 Beta (Jan 8, 2016)
- Beta version, executable only. Fixed a major problem in cycling animation causing the application hang/freeze itself.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.2f (Jan 8, 2016)
- Fixed a small problem for supplement 3,4,5 when loading events. Added two new supplement for meteors and constellations
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß2 Pre (Jan 7, 2016)
- Preliminary version, several small adjustments.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.2.0ß1 Pre (Jan 6, 2016)
- Preliminary version with new animation menu. Simple NEO filter checkbox. Copy/paste import of JPL orbital elements comets. Send your remarks and comments
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.2e (Dec 29, 2015)
- Modified abbreviations conversion to unicode.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.2c (Dec 29, 2015)
- More updates in deep sky database.
- Fixed saving menu font size.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.2b (Dec 29, 2015)
- Significant update deep sky database.
- In program improvement abbreviation translation, fixed problem brightness calculation.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.2a (Dec 29, 2015)
- Internal code optimisation, updated the deepsky.chm file.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.2 (Dec 22, 2015)
- Replaced deepsky observations file format from HTML to HTMLHELP (CHM) format.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.1 (Dec 15, 2015)
- Introduced the new deepsky observations file in HTML.
- This replaces the old HNS_DEEP.HLP file
- Fixed the HTML help for Firefox.
- Fixed wildcard search.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.0h (Dec 15, 2015)
- Fixed asteroid positions. Where wrong due to unicode support.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.0g (Dec 10, 2015)
- Fixed save command supplement 3 and higher.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.0f (Dec 10, 2015)
- Fixed ASCOM sync command.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.0e (Dec 8, 2015)
- Fixed comet update from settings menu.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.0d (Dec 4, 2015)
- Fixed a small problem with rise and set times. Fixed a freeze of the program if Skyview reports with an error file rather then a FITS file. Delete all downloaded FITS files if you phase this problem..
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.0c (Dec 3, 2015)
- Minor corrections and fixed the updating of the asteroid and comet database from the settings menu.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.0b (Dec 2, 2015)
- Minor tweeks for rise/set times. If the set time is before the rise time then is reported as Set:... Rise:.... else Rise:... Set:.... to prevent confusion
New in Hallo northern sky 3.1.0 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Allows now 5 supplements.
- Introduced a new entry line for goto menu.
- Works with unicode and will display the greek alphabet correctly and many other alphabets contained in unicode.
- Improved processing speed of deep sky and supplement routine again and reached same speed as classic version.
- Streamlined string operations.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.4ß9 Test (Nov 26, 2015)
- More internal maintenance. Allmost all null terminated string routines removed. Please check all functionality.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.4ß8 Test (Nov 25, 2015)
- Improved processing speed of deep sky and supplement routine again and reached same speed as classic version.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.4ß7 Test (Nov 23, 2015)
- Large internal revamp for string routines.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.4ß6 Test (Nov 23, 2015)
- Executable only.This version will display the greek alphabet correctly and many other alphabets contained in unicode. Charset is for the moment default. Added some more labels for non-English version. The top menu font and size is now linked to rest on HNSKY.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.4ß5 Test (Nov 22, 2015)
- Added some more labels for non-English version. The top menu font and size is now linked to rest on HNSKY.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.4ß Test (Nov 19, 2015)
- First unicode test version 3.0.4ß
- Executable only.
- This version will display the greek alphabet correctly
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.3b (Nov 13, 2015)
- Fixed a problem with statusbar indication.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.3 (Nov 5, 2015)
- Introduced basic earth view or horizon. Transparent or not, see settings menu.
- Internal simple Milky Way boundaries.
- Adjustable magnitude setpoint for the three deep sky colors.
- More powerful editing mode in line drawing mode. Modify or add any line.
- Added JPL Horizons orbital elements import via clipboard. For this select in the JPL webpage "orbital elements", generate ephemeris and select all and then copy it to the clipboard. Then use the special paste shift-V function in the HNSKY editor to paste the converted elements into the asteroid editor. Please select in JPL Horizons the orbital element output, not observer.
- Updated save menu in the editor.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.3ßM Preview (Nov 5, 2015)
- Transparant or not, see settings menu. New internal Milky Way (simplied in version d). Adjustable brightness setting for the three deep sky coloring. More powerful editing mode in line drawing mode. Modify or add any line.
- Added JPL Horizons orbital elements import via clipboard. For this select orbital elements, generate ephemeris and copy all the output into the clipboard. Then using a special paste shift-V function paste the converted elements in the asteroid editor. Updated the save menu in the editor.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.3ßL Preview (Nov 2, 2015)
- Introduced basic earth view.
- Transparant or not, see settings menu.
- New internal Milky Way (simplied in version d) .
- Adjustable brightness setting for the three deep sky coloring.
- More powerful editing mode in line drawing mode.
- Modify or add any line.
- Added JPL orbital elements import via clipboard
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2f (Nov 2, 2015)
- Minor changes.
- Updated deepsky database 3, North_arrow is clickable, Skyview FITS images with higher background level such as in Cygnus are better displayed.
- Added constellations supplement files.
- Added simplified chinese language file.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2e (Sep 25, 2015)
- Fixed statusbar position.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2d (Sep 25, 2015)
- Added options to hide icons or text of the mainmenu. Fixed naming of deepsky object in "draw solar tracks." Fixed font width problem for unsual wide fonts.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2ß12 (Sep 25, 2015)
- Fixed path problems after saving and correction in supplement handling. Editor search menu extend.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2ß11 (Sep 25, 2015)
- Move hide menu to popupmenu mainmenu, hide mainmenu text option added.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2ß10a (Sep 25, 2015)
- Fixed sluggish behaviour. Introduced internal database search for an area.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2ß8 (Sep 25, 2015)
- Hide main menu introduced.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2ß7 (Sep 25, 2015)
- Cylindrical projection introduced:
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2ß5 (Aug 18, 2015)
- Menu buttons can be removed with pop-up menu. In later version, default will off.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2ß4 (Aug 17, 2015)
- Aero implemented and adjustable menu top color.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.2ß (Aug 15, 2015)
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.1d (Aug 10, 2015)
- Fixed star names for local copy of UCAC4 and GSC.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.1c (Aug 9, 2015)
- Fixed ASCOM for 64 bit windows and some path issue with saving settings.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.1b (Aug 6, 2015)
- Minor corrections in saving/loading protocols. Added in "About" 32 or 64 bit appliation version indication.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.1a (Aug 5, 2015)
- Important file location change. Editable files are now in documents folder. Please copy your settings file Default.hns file to the new location documents\hnsky
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0n2 (Aug 4, 2015)
- Small fix in 64 bit version for application error message.and small initialisation problem when starting
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0n1 (Aug 4, 2015)
- Updated the installer to set file/directory permssions correct.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0n (Aug 4, 2015)
- Release of both 32 and 64 bit versions in one installation package
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ml (Aug 1, 2015)
- Tiny update in deepsky database..
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0m (Jul 20, 2015)
- Added width and height indication for mouse pulled square. Added redo view menu option (shift-ctrl-z) to existing undoview option (ctrl-z). Very minor update deepsky databases.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0l (Jun 23, 2015)
- Switches automatically between native star databases and external star catalogue depending on zoom factor.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0k (Jun 18, 2015)
- Move SIDEREAL popup option to main menu SCREEN.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0j2 (Jun 15, 2015)
- Adapted the help links for the Chrome browser. Context sensitive help works now for both Firefox and Chrome but not for Internet Explorer.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0j (Jun 8, 2015)
- Added online URAT1 catalogue.
- New epoch 2016 version of SAO and PPM star database.
- So star positions are for 2016-1-1 calculated using proper motions.
- Tycho-2++ updated, total 4.504.823 stars up to magnitude 12.5 from which 2.050.961 UCAC2 stars
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0jß2 Beta (Jun 5, 2015)
- Test version capable of using the online URAT1 catalogue.
- Fixed a problem with popmenu location
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0jß Beta (Jun 4, 2015)
- Test version capable of using the online URAT1 catalogue.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0i2 (Jun 2, 2015)
- Fixed a problem with online star catalogs resulting in streaks and faulty magnitudes.
- ADDED SOME MISSING STARS IN TYCHO-2
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0i (Jun 1, 2015)
- Overhault completely the function behind de star density and star boldness sliders. Some background info to get a unoform density: star_count.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0h (May 30, 2015)
- Tycho-2+ database has been replaced by Tycho-2++. About 2 million UCAC4 stars where added to tycho-2 and it is complete up to magnitude 12.5 containing 4.4 million stars. Epoch is set to year 2016
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0g (May 18, 2015)
- Communication to telescope selects now equinox for communication automatically from ASCOM. Settings menu updated accordingly.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0f (May 14, 2015)
- Changed menu "dark nights next days" back to orginal setup. Moon did not display correctly for higher altitudes >50degrees
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0e (May 9, 2015)
- Modified completely the line drawing menu in popup menu. Drawing deepsky outlines is now much easier using the mouse.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0d (May 4, 2015)
- Automatic update download link asteroids. Was still downloading the 2013 file rather then the 2015 file.
- Fix the plot solar object message.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0c (May 4, 2015)
- Fixed a problem plottings the planets at wide field with FITS images on. Map_mercury .fit updated with new Mercury overview of Messenger spaceship.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0a (Apr 14, 2015)
- Added moon shadow on planets. Have a look to Jupiter at 2015-1-24, 6:30 UTC.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß9b (Apr 2, 2015)
- Replaced WINHLP file with HTML files. Installed under .\help\uk\hnsky.htm. Help files of version 31-3-2015 in .\help\*.* can be removed.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß9 (Apr 1, 2015)
- Replaced WINHLP file with HTML files.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß8a (Mar 30, 2015)
- modified the cache file format of the online UCAC4, NOMAD to reduce file size. If you have used v3.0.0ß8, remove all *.TXT files (cache) from the FITS directory.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß8 (Mar 27, 2015)
- Added online UCAC4 and NOMAD star catalog.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß7b (Mar 24, 2015)
- Added a wildcards option in the search menu. E.g. type PAN* and press comet button. See the help file.
- Object filtering in OBJECT MENU changed into a combobox.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß6a (Mar 11, 2015)
- Fixed long abbreviation translation problem
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß6 (Mar 9, 2015)
- Fixed telescope-sync wrong equinox problem
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß5d (Mar 6, 2015)
- Help file updated to version 3.0.0
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß5 (Feb 27, 2015)
- Map can be displayed in terrestrial, sidereal and solar view.
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß2 (Feb 24, 2015)
- UCAC4 conversion program included for wide field views. UCAC4 magnitude selection adapted to min(u4Fmag, APASS_V, U4Amag)
New in Hallo northern sky 3.0.0ß1b (Feb 23, 2015)
- Tracking instead of lock introduced. Use right mouse to set: No tracking, Tracking sidereal, tracking solar object.
- UCAC4 conversion program included for wide field views.
- Add new menu "polar aligment scope view" under help menu. This shows polaris or equivalent southern area to polar align your telescope.
- Grid line resolution set higher for smoother lines.
- Removed USNO B and UCAC3 support. Fixed search function UCAC4 stars.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.5.0ß17 (Feb 12, 2015)
- Add new menu "polar aligment scope view" under help menu. This shows polaris or equivalent southern area to polar align your telescope.
- Removed USNO B and UCAC3 support.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.5.0ß16 (Feb 10, 2015)
- Animation solar object introduced. See settings menu option ANIMATE and hit "INS" key to animate.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.5.2ß6 (Jan 19, 2015)
New in Hallo northern sky 2.5.2ß2 (Jan 12, 2015)
- Persistent feature of the window's canvas. So if a program is in the front of HNSKY window and moved away again, repainting will be almost instantly.
- Ascom connection can be saved in settings.
- Telescope cursor improved.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.2ß4 (Jan 6, 2015)
- HyperLeda_980000_galaxies supplement Dated 2015-1-5 (10 Mbytes) demo image using 65 mm telescope.
- Made HNSKY compatible with Maxim DL images (uncompressed).
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.2ß3 (Jan 5, 2015)
- Database complete updated using Wolfgang Stenicke NGC/IC database and SAC81.
- Deepsky database reading works now correctly for 3 names. (supplements only 2)
- Search shortcut is now CTRL-F and ALT-S
- Dark night forecast display for Moon updated.
- Supplement plotting speed improved
- Added brightness estimate for deepsky objects
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.2ß2 (Dec 30, 2014)
- Added brightness estimate for deepsky objects.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.2ß1 (Dec 29, 2014)
- Ascom telescope interface moved to popup menu, azimuth indication in altitude grid changed in N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW . Outstanding language modules and interfacing to be updated.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.1 (Jul 23, 2014)
- Contains the changes from the previous beta version
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.1ß3 (Jun 30, 2014)
- Total overhaul of the bold and density function of star plotting. Start with the bold/density gliders in the middle. Note that faint stars are displayed as a single pixel with grey level so they are not so explicit vissible.
- Secondly improved simulation of conjuction of jovian moons. e.g. In case of conjuction of Callisto with Ganymede, Callisto can be both in the front or behind Ganymede.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0b (Sep 23, 2013)
- Help file updated.
- Small correction in scrolling with arrow keys for wide vieuws, ignores double click in corners of the screen to allow correct scrolling.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0a (Sep 4, 2013)
- Small cosmetic correction for UCAC4 catalog at poles.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß15 (Jun 20, 2013)
- 1) Downloading DSS images via internet is more integrated. Just hit one of the DSS servers in the popup menu and after a few second the DSS image will be shown in HNSKY. HNSKY will store up to 9 images in the FITS directory as download1.fits, download2.fits.... After 9 files it overrides the first to prevent creating too many files. The size of the DSS can be defined by the rubber square.
- 2) Secondly in this version the comet or asteroid database can be updated with a button click from the settings menu. The update is then downloaded from www.minorplanetcenter.net. Furthermore the editor can read and convert "mpcorb.dat" and "astorb.dat" asteroid files. Asteroid have now a size based on the absolute magnitude and standard albedo (0.15). Conversion of 30.000 object takes 5 minutes or so. Note that the complete database of 353.000 named objects will take hours!! . So first reduce "Mpcorb.dat" in a tekst editor below 10 mbytes or. You can read any *.dat file but it will assume "mpcorb.dat" unless the filename is "astorb.dat" or "AsteroidElements.dat" from Occult.
- 3) Introduced a mouse popup menu. Note that you can also pull a rubber square with the right mouse button to size a DSS download or define a Simbad area search.
- 4) Numerical integration for asteroids to achieve highest accuracy positions years in the future or past. Select in editor a number of lines and push right mouse button to select numerical integration. The error is less then 1" after 10 years !!! So a asteroid file from 10 years ago will after numerical integration be within 1" accurate!!
- 5) Small changes such as reverse mouse wheel action, time stamp markers, improved drawing lines, online request to Simbad and other sites. Also plotting FITS at wide fields is now possible. See settings menu option "show early"
- For translaters have a look took section [popup] and
- Early_FITSC
- Early_FITSH
- Mouse_wheel_ReverseC
- Mouse_wheel_ReverseH
- update_tabC
- asteroid_linkH
- comet_linkH
- asteroidbuttonC
- cometbuttonC
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß14 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Clear markers reinstated in popup menu. Faster FITS plotting for small projections
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß13 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Lock RA/DEC back to orginal, no erros message on empthy fits directory.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß12 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Fixed cntrl-Z, double click mouse, middle mouse botton and alt-right mouse centres on object. Line mode alt-az fix.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß10 (Jun 20, 2013)
- UCAC4 name standardized with '-'
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß9 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Font style adjustable such as no underline
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß7 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Bug fix statusbar message and limit minimum DSS size. Added asteroid and comefile update to pull down menu.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß6 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Bug fix DDE and ASCOM. ch.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß4 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Note that you can pull a rubber square with the right mouse button to size DSS download or size area Simbad search.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.4.0ß1 (Jun 20, 2013)
- Introduced mouse pop menu, Numerical integration for asteroids to achieve accurate positions years in the future or past. Select in editor a number of lines and puch right mouse button to select numerical integration. Small changes such as reverse mouse wheel action, time stamp markers, improved drawing lines, online request to Simbad and other sites.
New in Hallo northern sky 2.3.0L4 (Dec 28, 2007)
- fixed error in settings menu