** VERSION 1.3.3 CHANGELOG

1. When CURRLOC is automatically assigned to a Central Line point UT1 time is shown too.
2. Added to the location file some Maya sites.
3. Added to the location file some Aztec sites.
4. Added to the location file some Inca sites.
5. Added to the location file some Brasilian sites.
6. Corrected several group ID designation between Central American and South American sites
7. The main ephemeris contains now the Gregorian Proleptic Date. Christian Easter Date, Islamic and Egyptian Calendar are still under test published in the Debug Info Window.
8. New previsional values for DeltaT available from the official Nasa site were used to update DeltaT from 2023 to 2032 CE
9. Main rivers added to the colored Earth Map.
10. The RTC button has been moved to the upper left side of the Main Window, just to make room to a couple of new buttons.
11. In the Star Database Window the button the sequence “Copy” and “Ask Simbad” returns directly the query on the selected catalog in the URL string.
12. Input Location Window has slightly changed. Now it is possible to address the chosen location to Default, Current and to the new Eclipse Window (I’m going to explain what is the Eclipse Window later). Any combination of switches is allowed, all turned off as well, even if it’s pretty useless.🤗

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SOLAR ECLIPSE WINDOW – If the Application is running in a window of 1366 x 950 pixels or higher the new Eclipse Window will be visible at the bottom right edge of the Application. If this window is not activated, a brief help about available commands will be shown into the same graphic area.

• This window can work with a different location with respect to the one normally set. [Map > EclW] button can be used for a manual entry, or the [LOCATION] button, assigning via switch the chosen place to the Eclipse Window.
• Initially set to the application time, it’s actually totally independent from RTC and DST clock. Internal time can only be changed by the mouse wheel, in four different steps (1s, 1m, 10m 1h) set by the [EclW Step] button.
• This window can be saved as an image file via File Menu.
• It’s more confortable now to examine several locations in and out of the totality path, compute their local times and eventually save one or more images to be embedded into a document.

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PROXIMITY TOOL – This new tool allows, by means of a proximity scanner, to find the nearest location with respect to a selected Manual Entry. A 200,000 sites archive provided by GEONAMES.ORG is used for the job.

Last minute change: I’ve added a button directly pointing (if exists) to a Wikipedia reference about the found location.

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NEW “Search for possible Alignments” tool

This new tool could be stated like this: given a fixed point of the altazimuth sphere, defined by h (altitude) and z (azimuth), find, in a specified year, date and least distance from this point reached by Sun, Moon, Planets visible with the naked eye and some bright stars. In few words, if we have an ancient building or whatever aligned at azimuth 72.4°, for example, we can estimate if some correlation with equinoxes or solstices does exist over time at 72.4° of azimuth and at an altitude which intersects the true contour of the horizon. We can compute if the Sun or another celestial body rises or sets over a given point of a mountain and so on. I’m going to release this code “as experimental”, because I’m sure it needs many more tests than I’ve done so far. In order to activate this tool we need to lock into the Horizontal View(via pop menu) the position of the above mentioned reference point.

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NOTE : if you already have an earlier version of UrukFSP the new location file will not overwrite your local file contained into URUK1_USR/Locations. If you want the new file installed you have to rename the one already present into the above path. Location files are plain text files, so if you added a lot of new locations in your renamed file they can be transferred via copy and paste.

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