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Bug fixes, plus:
Changes from 3.7 to 3.7.1
Released November 19, 2005
New Features:
* Add tool to align two or more FITS images and create motion movies.
* Add Control-m keyboard shortcut to add any view to the Movie loop.
* Upgrade to higher resolution Earth image.
* Put user annotations in a scrolled list to accommodate lengthy collections.
* Add Moonrise and Moonset to collection of Step size controls.
* Image gallery lookups now search against all names of data base objects.
Changes from 3.6.4 to 3.7
Released August 1, 2005
New Features:
* Data
o Includes Hubble GSC 2.2.0.1 catalog, 450 million stars complete to M18.5.
o New and updated catalogs: Messier, IC, NGC, COVBS, SKY2000, HYPERLEDA, Supernova, WDSC, Open clusters, Henry-Draper, Pleiades and asteroids.
o YBS replaced with Sky 2000 to magnitude 6.5.
o Can now display Gallery image directly from Data Index.
* Earth View
o Display satellite orbits in space.
o Zoom in to see better geography, or out to see high orbits.
o Quick-set button to set equator rotation.
o Display of surface footprint is now optional.
o Expanded range mouse panning allows continuous rotation.
* Sky View
o Save and restore sets of eyepiece definitions.
o Save and restore sets of eyepiece Sky positions.
o Constellation figure definitions now stored in editable files.
o WCS solver invoked automatically if header has seed but no solution.
o Shortcut button to set display aspect ratio to match image.
o FITS file blinking via new Movie frame function.
* User Annotation
o Anchor locations are now based on the view's world coordinates.
o Sets of annotations may be saved and loaded from files.
* Other
o Collect any number of View, NAAG or Plot frames into a movie, save as set of PNG files.
o Many tweaks for improved INDI support, including display FITS BLOBs.
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