The following updated program files for SkyMap Pro 7 are available for download:
| Latest SkyMap Pro 7 service pack |
This service pack "patches" SkyMap Pro 7 to the latest version 7.0.11. Click the link below to download the service pack.
Download Service Pack 3 (smp7sp3.exe, 339kb)
To apply the service pack, simply run the downloaded program and follow the prompts on screen to locate the SkyMap Pro 7 installation directory. The service pack will "patch" any older version of the program to create the latest version. Note that each service pack includes all the changes made in all previous service packs.
Bug fixes
The title for a GSC star in the star info dialog should be of the form "GSC
xxxx-yyyyy", not "GSC-xxxx-yyyyy". The extra hyphen at the start of the
name was preventing the star from being found from a target list if the info dialog's
"Add to target list" menu item was used to add the star to a target list.
If a "non-standard" name for an object was added to a target list, for example
"Orion Nebula" rather than "M42", and the object information dialog
was then displayed, either from the target list itself, the target list visibility dialog,
or the target list catalog, the "Picture" item on the info dialog menu would
always be disabled, even if a picture file existed with the correct name. Now fixed.
The method used for labelling satellite tracks on the star chart relied on the fact that
points on the track occured at exact multiples of the labelling interval. This could
result, in certain circumstances, in tracks being displayed with no labels. The method
used for labelling satellite tracks has now been changed so that labels will be displayed
correctly
in all circumstances.
In the deep sky configuration dialog, "rounding errors" would often slightly
alter the entered magnitude limit. Eg, enter a limit of "15.4" and next time the
dialog was displayed it would have been changed to "15.39". Now fixed.
Bug fixes
A memory management bug could make the program crash if the star limiting magnitude was first lowered, then raised to a value higher than its original value. Now fixed.
Bug fixes
The title for the SAC catalog information in the deep sky object info dialog still said
"v6". Changed to "v7" to correctly reflect the fact that we're now
using version 7.1 of the SAC database.
When displaying "tooltip" information for a variable star or double star in the
target list catalog, the object type in the tooltip was displayed incorrectly. It's now
shown as "star" for both double and variable stars.
When logging an observation from the target list visibility dialog, the altitude and
azimuth of the object were shown with values 57x too large. This was due to the fact that
the observation logging routine was expecting to be passed the altitude and azimuth of the
object in radians, but was incorrectly being passed values in degrees. Now fixed.
In the dialog used to enter the date and time for which the map is drawn, a check is made
for the number of days in a month to prevent "illegal" dates from being entered.
This wasn't working correctly for February in "BC" leap years, resulting in the
program rejecting "legal" dates such as 29th Feb 5BC. The problem has been
corrected, so such dates can now be
entered.
In map overlays, lines drawn between points not at the same RA or the same dec were
displayed on the map incorrectly. Now fixed.
The "Tools/Phenomena/Events" dialog always returns the time and date of events
in UT. When using the "Goto" button on the list of events to set the map time
and date to the time and date of an event, we weren't taking the observer's time zone into
account. Now fixed.
The optional "guide frame" which can be attached to a camera/CCD frame
annotation was drawn in the wrong position when the map was "flipped" either
horizontally or vertically. Now fixed.
The angle of a frame added to a map which was both reflected and rotated was often
incorrect. Now fixed.
By popular request, the behaviour of the "File/New" menu item has been changed;
it now creates a new "default map", rather than displaying the "Field of
View" dialog.
The position of a star stored in a target list catalog was incorrectly stored as an
apparent rather than a mean position. When the catalog was displayed on the star chart,
the apparent position was again being calculated, resulting in a small error in the
plotted position. Now fixed.
Last Modified May 11, 2006