Program name: Moonbeam (V1.0) Author name: Fred T. Mendenhall Address: 2209 Tam-O-Shanter Ct. Carmel, IN 46032 Telephone Number:NONE Suggested Donation:$5.00 Program Description: Moonbeam is a nifty little software tool geared toward the amateur and the professional astronomer. This program gets any date, time and North American time zone and immediately outputs a lot of statistical information about the moon. It indicates the surface percentage of the visible moon, the angles of ascension and declination, the azimuth, ets. Once these facts have been displayed, you are prompted as to whether you want a graphic diagram of the night sky. If you have a monochrome or color graphics card you will be able to display the starchart. If you have answered 'Y' to the prompt, you are then asked to what degree you would like the stars plotted. Entering a degree of 1 causes only the most brightly lit staró to be plotted and on the other end of the spectrum you can enter a 7. I might warn you that entering the 7 will cause the output to be generated in about 5 minutes. The moon is also displayed, of course. The star chart may be printed by pressing the shft-PrtSc keys to- gether, provided you have a graphics printer. The star charts are contained in a database file provided by the Yale Observatory. This program requires a minimum of 128K RAM. Additionally, the graphic hardware will be needed to get the star chart displays. Program name: Sunset Author name: NONE Address: NONE Telephone Number: NONE Suggested Donation:NONE Program Description: This appears to be a simple, but useful program for the amateur astronomer and possibly a number of other people needing general information about the sun in relation to Earth. The user enters the date and time and location in longitude and latitude. Soon the time of sunrise and sunset (in both local and Grenich Meantime), the angle of azmith, the declination of the sun and the equation of time are displayed to the screen. Since the program is written in uncompiled BASIC, you must have a copy of BASICA yourself. But, at the same time, you may also peek at the source code to see how this program was put together. This program requires the most minimum in both hardware and software to operate. Program name: Solar Author name: Michael A. Syczylo Address: NONE Telephone Number: NONE Suggested Donation:NONE Program Description: This program closely parallels the previously described program, Sunset. According to the BASIC source code, this program is the result of a sixth grade science project. Since the results ob- tained were close to those of the previously described program, I would suspect that it is somewhat accurate and I would venture that the source code is available through a number of sources. The main difference between this program and that of Sunset is that this program only computes the output for time zones in the North American continent. Minimum configurations and BASICA needed. Program name: Optics Author name: NONE Address: NONE Telephone Number: NONE Suggested Donation: NONE Program Description: Although an apparently sophisticated piece of software which probably deserves merit in the area of mathematical calculations, I cannot think of many uses for Optics. It declares on the open- ing screen that it computes various parameters for reflecting telescopes. I was hard pressed to find the input which would lead to the secondary screen, which had calculated such things as P.F. scale, Magnitude limit, Dawes limit, effective F-stop and power and when I did, I was prompted for further information (aperture, Mirror Field Length and Eyepiece F.L.). The final output was a chart of field of vision and astigma. If you're into telescopes or cameras to that degree maybe it will be of use. The pascal source code is provided along with the compiled code and absolutely no documentation. Program name: Storm (V2.0) Author name: WHMC (modified by Thomas Pesek) Address: Sugarland TX Telephone Number: NONE Suggested Donation: NONE Program Description: If meteorology is of great interest to you, or you may be in- clined to write a graduate thesis regarding hurricane patterns in the southeast, then this is definitely the program for you. This program accepts data input from the user in the form of specific storm statistics and plots the movement of the hurricane on a nice map of the Caribbean and the southeast of North America. If you enter one of the key cities, and the storm comes too close then a warning is issued also. Along with this program comes several data files of hurricanes of the recent past, all with their official names. To get a good idea of what this program does, I found it useful to load one of these data files and dis- play the data and the output. This program requires a minimum of 128K RAM and ideally a color graphics setup. It will work with the monochrome system, but doesn't look nearly as nice.