Tara

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.0

Notes:
This is the first release of Tara. 

Tara has been written using swing classes. Consequently,
one needs to download at runtime the components required
for swing. Fortunately Sun has made this task a lot easy.
They have a tool that automatically converts an html file
that references a class into one that will download the
swing components if they are not already installed. Thus
for most parts, you should only need to launch Tara.html
and the browser will do the rest


The release contains the following files

Tara.html - Opening this file in a browser will launch Tara.

*.class - Java classes
*.gif - The pretty icons

SAOStars.dat - The stars database that drives tara. This
has been compiled with data from Nasa's web site

ConstellationFigures.txt - Defines each constellation

DeepSky600.txt - This is a small database of around 500
well-known objects typically seen with an 8-inch scope in
dark skies 



Changes: