BoPlanets is a virtual planetarium showing the planets relatively to any observing planet. The planets can be viewed in ecliptical-, equatorial- or horizontal view. The times of rise, transit and set of a planet can be determined.
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BoPlanets-V1.3-Up2 is the second update of release V1.3. Changes and bug fixes: 1.)Input of decimal numbers In menu Observer Locations, when horizontal view was selected, and in menu Rise,Transit&Set-Times the decimal numbers of latitude and longitude were formatted with the Java decimal separator ".". In Release V1.3-Up2 decimal numbers are formatted according to the current default locale. 2.)Results of rise, transit and set times The results can now be viewed without horizontal scrolling. 3.)Rise, transit and set times observed by the sun In V1.3-Up1 the results were incomplete and it took a pretty long time to produce the results. This was corrected in V1.3-Up2. May be, that not many people are interested in this exotic data.
In V1.3-Up1 the calculation of minimum and maximum altitude for the horizontal view was corrected. If the absolte values of minimum and maximum declination are different, then minimum and maximum altitude were determined incollrectly in release V1.3. For the natural orbital parameters of the planets this difference is quite small; so the effect of incorrect minimum and maximum altitude is hardly to see. But if orbital parameters are modified, then the difference may be quite significant. Example: - observer: Mercury - planet: Mars - excentricity of Mars=0.9 - inclination of Mars=-45 degrees
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