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XEphem version 3.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Tue May 8 13:41:22 2001
Message-Id: <200105081735.NAA01668@mission-control.mit.edu>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 13:35:42 -0400
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
I've upgraded the default version of XEphem on Athena for Solaris and
Linux to XEphem 3.4. It has a slew of new features and is generally
much nicer than older versions.
For those unfamiliar with it, XEphem is a piece of astronomy software
with sky views, Earth and other planet views, satellite tracking
etc. To run it type:
add xephem
xephem &
The old version can be run as:
xephem 3.1
I've also created the public mailing list xephem-users which will
receive updates about the configuration, such as star catalogs added
etc. Feel free to add yourself.
If you commonly use XEphem on a platform other than Solaris or Linux
and would like to use version 3.4 let me know.
kretch
