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Various
stability issues have been resolved with regard to the
Context Viewer, printed charts, observing lists and the
Designation Search tool.
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Faint
"stars" representing the bright cores of galaxies
no longer interfere with using the mouse-over identification
feature on the charts for identifying the galaxy.
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The
appearance/readability of the font used throughout the
program has been improved.
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The
mouse-rectangle-zoom on the charts can now be disabled via a
switch located on the Preferences tab of the SkyTools
Preferences dialog.
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Importing
supplemental comets and minor planets from the IAU now
automatically creates a corresponding observing list in the
"Auto Generated Lists" group, such as the "IAU
Distant Minor planets" or "IAU Critical Minor
planets" lists.
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A new
"Observing Lists from Handbooks" category has been
added on our web site, as browsed via the Import Shared
Data tab of the Data Manager.. This category
contains observing lists derived from various handbooks such
as Burnhams and NSOG. Note: for the time being some of
these lists will also remain in the "Deep Sky"
category until most users have updated to version 3.1.
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Several
cameras have been added to the camera data "pool"
and the cameras in the pool are now forced to display in
alphabetical order.
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Sorting
has been improved for the Alternative Designation Column of
the observing list.
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Multiple
target labels on the charts are now positioned properly.
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Moving
a newly created telescope up the list of telescopes
immediately after creating it no longer loses the new
telescope's data.
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The
altitude column of the observing list in imaging mode is now
computed for the proper time.
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The
quick year dropdown selection on the Event Calendar has been
updated to display recent and near future years.
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The
Twilight, Sunset, and Sunrise buttons on the Local Date/Time
dialog are now relative to the selected date rather than the
current date (as read from the computer clock).
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The
Append to list function of the Nightly Observing List
Generator sometimes appended the new objects to the
wrong observing list.
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The
Open button has been removed from the Chart Preferences
Scheme selection. The new schemes is not immediately
opened when selected, which is more intuitive.
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Repositioning
the Event Calendar window now longer causes a complete
redraw of the window.
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The
Triton and Charon check boxes on the Satellight Elongation
dialog of the Current Events tool no longer cause changes in
other variables.
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Blank
lines are now properly skipped when reading a horizon from a
file, and an error message is now generated that shows the
offending line in the file if an error is encountered
reading the data.
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The
Simulation charts / Context Viewer now use the actual
magnification (for the selected eyepiece) when computing
visibility rather than a fictional optimum
magnification.
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Visibility
limits for magnifying finders have been improved on the
simulation charts.
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Designation
search rules have been relaxed for various designations,
making it more likely a given designation will be found,
even if the format isn't exactly what SkyTools expects.
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The
imaging rectangle on the Interactive Atlas didn't always
rotate properly when the atlas orientation was changed from
the default.
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The Context
Viewer FOV now prints/copies on the Atlas using the line
preferences set in the chart preferences. Note:
because this is an animated element on the screen, the
on-screen version remains the inverse of the chart
background color.
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The
orientation arrows on the Context Viewer now switch properly
from horizon display to equatorial display as set in the
View Controls.
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The
telescope report sometimes errantly displayed a second
eyepiece with a Barlow magnification of 1.0.
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Barlow
magnifications entered to two decimal places are no longer
rounded top one decimal place after closing the eyepiece
dialog.
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Deleting
all supplemental minor planets no longer erroneously deletes
minor planets that are currently in use by observing lists,
log entries, etc.
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The
Sun is no longer filtered out of observing lists errantly
via the visual difficulty filter.
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"View
all checked in Overhead Sky" menu selection on the
Observing List menu has been restored. Apparently is
was mistakenly deleted in an earlier update.
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The
Argo Navis was being sent the wrong time format when the
general time format was set to AM/PM, which caused the
function to not work properly.
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The
up/down, page up/page down, ctrl-page up / ctrl-page down
keys again function properly for manipulating the
designation listing on the Browse tab of the Object
Requestor.
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The
equatorial R.A. grid line labels sometimes did not display
the proper R.A. near 24h.
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When
a log entry is created from the scrolled observing list, the
list no longer scrolls to the top.
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A
Cancel button has been added to the Prompt for Backup dialog
that sometimes appears after closing the program as a
reminder to back up your user data.
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The
printed observing list columns now always have enough room
to display times in the AM/PM format.
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DSS
images from the Skyview server now should have the proper
horizontal dimensions (there seems to be a bug in the
Skyview server when returning images in the simple
cylindrical projection; SkyTools now uses an alternative
projection. This fix will effect new image downloads
only.
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"Starfields"
-- faint stars downloaded from the USNO-A2 catalog -- are
now disabled in the Pro edition when the extended data DVD
is installed. Not only are these stars superfluous in
this case, but problems had been reported with this mix of
data.
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Target
labels will now only appear when the target cross hairs are displayed
on a chart. This change is the result of inconsistencies
in labeling when switching between regular object labels and
target labels for the target object.
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Some
column selections for visual and imaging mode printed
observing lists failed to remain turned on after enabling
them in the dialog.
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The
position used for the Sun in computing the sky brightness is
now properly precessed; this lead to problems in the distant
past or future only.
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On
the simulation charts the finder and eyepiece view
"insets" (which indicate the size of one view in
another) were sometimes drawn the wrong size. The
inset depicting the eyepiece view now rotates with the
eyepiece view.
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The
Visual Difficulty tab of the Object Information window
failed to report correct values immediately after the
NightBar or YearBar tabs had been selected.
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The uninstaller
now properly removes all of the registry entries and
database files. Note that the installer still does not
delete user data files by design.
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The
impact spot that appeared last summer on Jupiter has been
removed as it is now longer observable.
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The
coordinates of the new location are sent to the telescope,
if connected, when the observing location is changed on the
Real Time tab.
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Saturn's
rings were sometimes being cut off in the Context Viewer
after the eyepiece view was rotated.
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The
Thumbnail Viewer was mistakenly opening when displaying the
default telescope simulation chart for all checked entries
in an observing list. This was also causing some
stability problems.
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The
more recent values have been updated for Delta-T, the
difference between terrestrial time and universal
time. Predicted values into the future have also been
updated to be more accurate.
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When
the user switches from one chart to another the Real Time
status is now inherited from the previous chart.
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Plottable
images are now drawn on thumbnail plots in the Thumbnail
Viewer.
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When
the All button was depressed on the Context Viewer,
under some conditions faint objects were displaying the
wrong labels.
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When
the user deletes a downloaded DSS image, the image file is
now deleted along with the file association data.
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The Obstructed
Horizon dialog has been shortened vertically so it will
fit on 800x600 screens.
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Grid
line labels no longer linger on the charts when the grid
lines are turned off.
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The
program now opens more quickly.
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Various
other more minor improvements/fixes have also been made.
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The
"Open" button used to open the selected Chart
Preferences Scheme on the Chart Preferences dialog has been
removed. The selected chart preference scheme will now
open automatically when selected.
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The
Rise/Transit/Set columns in the observing list were still
being computed using the obstructed horizon when the
obstructed horizon was disabled.
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The
obstructed horizon was remaining displayed on the charts
after it was turned off in the View Controls until the chart
was refreshed.
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The
"Night Log" button on the Observing Log dialog was
not properly opening to the correct night in the Log
Browser.
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In
some cases when non-standard Windows font "DPI
settings" were used the eyepiece selection on the
simulation charts was drawn off the right side of the
screen.
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Optimum
times were not being displayed in the observing list for
objects deemed to be "not visible." Now all
marginal objects display optimum times. Only those
objects that definitely cannot be observed, such as a galaxy
in daylight, no longer display optimum times.
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All
Optimum window columns in the observing list now sort blanks
to the bottom of the list regardless of the sort order.
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The
eyepiece field of view/magnification label on the telescope
simulation charts was not always properly displaying the
field of view/magnification for the selected eyepiece,
particularly when a comet was targeted.
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Displaying
thumbnails for binoculars could cause the magnification
property of the binoculars to be inadvertently changed.
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UGC 10822 was
not properly found in the designation search.
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Some WDS
identifiers, such as "BAL 1530" were not properly
being found in the designation search.
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The
"After" date selected on the Search tab of the Log
Browser was jumping ahead to the next day.
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The Log Search
was missing some matching entries when there were more than
one entry for the same objects.
