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Lunar 1.9
for the Palm OS
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Introduction
Lunar helps you observe the Moon by showing you the phases, the position in its orbit around Earth, the distance from Earth, its age in the current lunation and the percentage of illumination. It also gives you the names of the prominent features on the face of the Moon and the major quarters in the current lunation. Lunar also allows you to add the major Moon phases to your Date Book.
The plug-in option allows you to install both the northern and southern hemisphere data files to match your location.
Lunar works on all grey scale and colour Palm OS devices with Palm OS 3.0 or greater.
In this screen you can see the Moon's distance from Earth, its age in the current lunation and the percentage of illumination. Watch how the Moon phases are created by the varying position of the Moon in its orbit around Earth.
In the full screen view you can tap on various prominent features and get their names at the bottom left of the screen.
The Phasescreen shows the dates and times of the quarter phases in the current lunation, starting with the last new Moon and ending with the following one.
The bar at the left indicates the current time in the lunation.
Tapping any of the phases' Moon icons takes you to that time and date in the previous display.To step backwards or forwards through the lunations use the arrow buttons at the bottom of the widow. Alternatively you can use the hardware up or down key. The diamond button brings you back to the current date.
The 'Add the Date Book' screen allows you to enter the major Moon phases into the Date Book of your palm OS device. You can choose to have the phases entered as untimed or timed events for the particular days in the selected date interval.
Users of DateBk3/4/5 (click here for more information) or ActionNames can choose to assign a category and icons to the Lunar events being entered into the Date Book.
Tapping the info (i) button in either screens you get an informational text about the Moon, including its statistics.
System Requirements
Lunar works on all grey scale and colour Palm OS devices with Palm OS 3.0 or greater.
Installation
Install the following files on your Palm OS device:
- Lunar.prc (application file)
- Lunar-Northern.prc and/or Lunar-Southern.prc (hemisphere resource files)
- MathLib.prc (if not already installed on your Palm OS device)
Optional:
- locmgr.prc and
llmgr.prc (Location Manager)
To have Lunar enter the correct phases into the Date Book over a period of time which crosses the Daylight Saving date, please install Location Manager to set your location details. - locdbus.pdb is a pre-compiled database of US cities.
Version History
- 1.9
Code optimization and OS5 compatibility.
Added possibility to step through the lunations in the Phases screen.
Fixed a bug, which was introduced in 1.8, which could cause an error when using the old DateBk b/w icons. - 1.8
Support for the colour icons in DateBk5.
Partial support for the colour icons in ActionNames.
(The icons for Lunar need to be within the first 260 icons)
- 1.7.1
Compatibility with astro-metrics DA.
Fixed a screen redraw bug in the Phases display for the Handera 330. - 1.7
Date Book support added. Lunar can enter the major Moon phases to the Date Book for any given time period.
Icon and category support for DateBk3/4.
The screen state of the two main screens gets saved. - 1.6
Support for English units.
Option for left handed users for easier viewing of the feature names on the full screen Moon display.
Cross hair and feature names now stay on the screen until another area of the Moon is selected. - 1.5
Introduction of plug-in support for northern and southern hemispheres.
Improved feature name display, now showing a crosshair of the selected area.
Added the ability to drag stylus over the surface of the Moon with updated feature names display. - 1.2
New screen showing the major quarter phases of the current lunation
Bug fix in the age calculation - 1.0
Initial public release
Shareware Notice
Lunar is shareware with a 14 day trial period. If you keep using Lunar then you need to register it to be able to continue using it legally. If you decide not to register it after 14 days, you should stop using Lunar and delete it from your Palm OS device.
The current registration price is US$11.99
You can register Lunar at
You may give unregistered copies to others under the same terms - they may try it and then either register or remove it.
Lunar (together with this document) may be included on any disk or CD-ROM of shareware sold by non-profit organisations. If you wish to include it in a commercial software collection, please contact me at
Disclaimer
Lunar is provided "as-is" and without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied. I can accept no liability for data loss or any other problems caused directly or indirectly by the use of Lunar.
If you encounter errors or have any suggestions or comments please mail me at:
Copyright Notice
© 2000-2003 Hans Anger.
Lunar is protected by copyright laws, and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties. All title and copyrights in and to Lunar are owned by Hans Anger. Palm OS is a trademark of Palm Computing®.
