SPELL=xephem VERSION=3.7 SOURCE=${SPELL}-$VERSION.tar.gz SOURCE2=${SPELL}-3.5.2.pdf SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/${SPELL}-$VERSION SOURCE_URL[0]=http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/$SPELL/$SOURCE SOURCE2_URL[0]=http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/cgi-bin/download/$SOURCE2 SOURCE_HASH=sha512:dd8f5154a0c81375c2d89508f469fc6cc42808abe59945d168d64df89eb17dfcbc63a6793ed278dfa85bdf2a14047c7bcf95134942d3200cfe676fa12288b274 SOURCE2_HASH=sha512:7760b56d1f10978fdcf053f75f54ee1188b8be8adf589d5cc354c20c327b4226eb9b303e7fbfd10b0e64cd274c535a8d3c3cddb0a885513792e6783425be4b14 WEB_SITE=http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ ENTERED=20030517 DOCS="README" LICENSE[0]=UNKNOWN KEYWORDS="science" SHORT="Scientific-grade interactive astronomical ephemeris generated star charting and sky simulation." cat << EOF * Computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for all objects; * Has built-in support for all planets; the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Earth; central meridian longitude of Mars and Jupiter; Saturn's rings; and Jupiter's Great Red Spot. * Allows user-defined objects including stars, deepsky objects, asteroids, comets and Earth satellites. * Offers many large databases including Tycho, Hipparcos, GSC, USNO. * Displays data in configurable tabular formats in conjunction with several interactive graphical views; * Graphically displays a 24 hour period showing when any selected objects are up; * Displays 3-D stereo views of the Solar System that are particularly well suited for visualizing comet trajectories; * Quickly finds all close pairs of objects in the sky; * Sorts and prints all catalogs with very flexible criteria for creating custom observing lists; * Can create plots of any pairs of all data fields throughout the program; * Downloads AAVSO light curves directly online; * Downloads current asteroid and comets lists from Lowell and MPC; * Downloads timely Earth satellite orbital TLE parameters; * Downloads Digitized Sky Survey FITS files from STScI or ESO; * Displays seti@home client progress and plots position being processed on Sky View map; * Provides a handy spreadsheet for converting among equatorial, ecliptic, horizontal and galactic coordinates; * Includes a compiler for entering and solving user-written functions using any data fields; * Serves as the control point for GOTO telescopes such as Meade LX200 (Mac users will need a USB-to-Serial adaptor, not included, but we do support those made by KeySpan); * Displays FITS files and DSS images overlaid with properly registered database symbols and other graphical information; * Performs automatic star pattern matching to solve for accurate World Coordinate System on any image; * Performs 1-click 2D Gaussian relative and absolute photometry; * Lets you define and save any number of Eyepieces to use in sky maps; * Displays your own local horizon profile; * Can store sets of Sky View options for easy playback later; * Uses high quality Postscript for all printing. EOF