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From: Ramshorn@ix.netcom.com (Robert Swarts)
Subject: New Product Release
JULIAN AND AZI-MOUTH
ASTRO UTILITIES
Ramshorn at Yamhill proudly announces its latest astronomical utilities.
Azi-Mouth is a right ascension/declination to altitude/azimuth
converter, You input your latitude and longitude, and then Azi-Mouth
updates itself from your computer clock at an interval that you specify.
While there are many coordinate conversion programs available, Azi-Mouth
is the only one that speaks the resulting coordinates to you, freeing
you to operate your telescope rather than your computer. It also has a
convenient dark mode display that enables you to view your monitor from
up to 50 feet away, should you choose to, without ruining your night
vision. Furthermore, it can run in the background, freeing your computer
for other uses during your observing session while still allowing you to
hear the spoken coordinates at your telescope. Azi-Mouth comes with a
data base containing all 110 Messier objects, a number of bright stars
(for calibration purposes), and planetary entries. You can add as many
additional objects as you wish. For those who do not have a sound board,
Microsoft?s SPEAKER.DRV is bundled with the software. This enables most
(but not all) PC-compatible computers to produce sound from their
built-in speaker.
Julian is an astronomical timepiece displaying Julian date and sidereal
time at 0 hours, Greenwich, on the specified observation date; and
standard (Std Time), local mean (LMT), local sidereal (LST), and
universal times (UT) at the current instant. It reads your location from
the Azi-Mouth initialization file, and updates itself from the computer
clock at the specified interval. It can be optionally set to ?float?
continuously above any other programs you may have running.
Both programs are Windows-based and sold as a unit for $26.95 postpaid
anywhere in the world. A demonstration diskette can also be provided for
$5.00, $3.00 of which is refundable against your order for a working
version. Send check or money order to:
Ramshorn at Yamhill
22571 NW Roosevelt
Yamhill, OR 97148
Pre- and post-sales support is avaliable via E-mail at
Ramshorn@ix.netcom.com
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