Stargazers Delighted With Improved Aqua Interface

by , 7:00 AM EDT, April 30th, 2003

Ruedi Schmid has released an update for Stargazer's Delight, bringing it to version 6.2. Stargazer's Delight is a desktop planetarium featuring deep-sky objects and asteroids. The update ships with an enhanced Aqua interface and bug fixes. According to Ruedi Schmid:

Ruedi Schmid, the developer of Stargazer's Delight, the astronomical desktop planetarium for Macintosh, announces the release of the new version 6.2 for Mac OS 8/9 and OS X.

Stargazer's Delight, a fully featured desktop planetarium and sky simulator, is a comprehensive and entertaining guide to the heavens for first time stargazers as well as ambitious hobby astronomers.

It offers views of the sky for any date and for any location on Earth. You can see all the stars up to magnitude 10 (over 260,000 stars), the Sun, the Moon, the planets, the brightest asteroids and hundreds of deep-sky objects such as galaxies, clusters and nebulas.

Specific changes in version 6.2:

New interface for most of the windows and dialogs. Better OS X and Aqua compatibility

Lots of small improvements like a new table in 'Magnitude limits', calculations of the local time in 'Date and Location', new OS X icons, custom telescope views and many more

Fixed a crashing bug in 'Set Date' in 'Ecliptic Positions of Planets'

Fixed a bug that would not draw star names and other labels correctly under OS X Jaguar

Fixed a lot of minor issues and incompatibilities

You can find more information about Stargazer's Delight update at the Stargazer Software Web site. Stargazer's Delight 6.2 is available for US$29.00.

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