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A. HECK
Observatoire Astronomique
11, rue de l'Université
F-67000 Strasbourg, France
(heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr)
This is the second report on a CDS project introduced last year (Heck, 1993). A
first report was published in the previous issue of this periodical (Heck,
1994). A MediaTheque registration form is again available in this issue.
Please use this form for depositing your products with CDS and to see them
listed in this report series as well in our
MediaTheque pages
on our Mosaic server either directly
(through the URL http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/heck/mtpres.htm) or
via the
CDS main homepage
(http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html). These Mosaic pages are also
regularly updated in case of change of addresses, telecommunication plugs, and
so on. Fig. 1 reproduces the
MediaTheque Mosaic
homepage from where it is
possible to navigate towards the various series and items of the collection.
This series of reports list the products received within the scope of the
project with a minimum of appropriate information. Once again, CDS itself is not
distributing the material, but rather acting as a pointer towards the producers
or distributors, besides playing its rôle as historical repository.
The information is provided in these reports bona fide. CDS is not
responsible for modifications that might be brought subsequently to the products
or for deviations from the prices or technical indications given in these lines.
Unless otherwise indicated, all products use English (or American ...) as
working language. The texts in italic between quotes are reproduced from the
documentation of the software producers whenever deemed appropriate. Prices are
generally excluding handling and shipping costs.
For various technical reasons, some of the products already received will be
presented in forthcoming reports.
This section lists `self-standing' video tapes. See also Section 4 as software
packages are sometimes delivered with a videotape.
2.5 Photokina '92
- Producer: Lobo electronic GmbH (Hofackerstraße 13, D-73430 Aalen,
Germany, phone: +49-7361-6095, fax: +49-7361-68810)
- Price: not quoted
- Duration: about 15 min.
- Language: English, with some German
- Standard of material received: VHS PAL
- Comments: Presentation of Lobo electronic GmbH laser show applications for
various firms and in various instances, including planetarium sessions.
2.6 Astrophysical Journal Videotape Vol. 417, N. 2. Part 1 (1992)
- Authors: see `Comments'
- Producer: University of Chicago Press (5801 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago IL
60637, USA, phone: +1-312-753-3373, fax: +1-312-753-0811) for the American
Astronomical Society (1630 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20009,
USA, phone: +1-202-328-2010, fax: +1-202-234-2560, e-mail: aas@blackhole.aas.org)
- Price: not quoted
- Duration: about 70 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: Animated complement to papers presented in the corresponding
issue of the journal.
2.7 Eyes on the Hawaiian Skies - 1991 Total Solar
Eclipse Preview Edition
- Producer: Tropical Visions Inc. (62 Halaulani Place, Hilo HI 96720, USA, p
hone:
+1-808-935-5557, fax: +1-808-935-0066)
- Price: not quoted
- Duration: about 40 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS PAL
- Comments: Journey through Hawaii Big Island astronomical facilities in
preparation for the 1991 total solar eclipse visible from Mauna Kea.
2.8 And Then There Was Voyager (1991)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 34.95
- Duration: 30 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: Presentation of Voyagers 1 and 2 explorations (1979-1989).
2.9 Flying by the Planets (1991)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 32.95
- Duration: 35 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: Magellan Venus radar mapping results - Galileo Earth/Moon
encounter - Mars Viking overflight - Earth modelling from climatic and
elevation data with Galileo flyby - and more.
2.10 The Quest for Contact (1987)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 32.95
- Duration: 32 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: Provocative enquiry into the scientific search for
extraterrestrial intelligence produced for the SETI Institute and NASA.
2.11 Voyager: Missions to Jupiter and Saturn (1983)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 29.95
- Duration: 20 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: Voyager mission to the two largest planets.
2.12 Uranus: I Will See Such Things + Miranda: The Movie (1987)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 29.95
- Duration: 30 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in January 1986 with computer
animation of Miranda terrain.
2.13 Voyager: Neptune Encounter Highlights (1990)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 32.95
- Duration: 33 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: 21 short films from Voyager 2 journey to Neptune.
2.14 Cosmic Clips: Animations from Astronomers (1993)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 34.95
- Duration: 30 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: 13 video clips developed by astronomers as part of their
research (galaxy collisions, Crab Nebula pulsar, X-ray Sun, Pluto and Charon,
flare stars, and more).
2.15 Black Holes and Warped Spacetime (1992)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 29.95
- Duration: 45 min.
- Standard of material received: VHS NTSC
- Comments: Lecture of William Kaufmann at the 1992 ASP annual meeting.
This section lists `self-standing' CD-ROMs, such as collections of catalogues,
surveys, and so on. See also the following section since some software packages
are delivered on CD-ROMs.
3.8 The Guide Star Catalog (2 CDs)
- Authors: Space Telescope Science Institute (3700 San Martin Drive,
Baltimore MD 21218, USA, phone: +1-410-338-4700, fax: +1-410-338-4767)
- Producer: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc.
(1625 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 701, Washington DC 20036, USA, phone:
+1-202-483-2101, fax: +1-202-483-2106)
- Distributor: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue,
San Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 69.95
- Comments: See Item 3.3 in Report #1 and refer also to Item 4.10 in this
report (Guide Star Catalog Listing Program).
3.9 Star Date (December 1992)
- Producer: McDonald Observatory (University of Texas at Austin, RLM 15.308,
Austin TX 78712, USA, phone: +1-512-471-5285, fax: +1-512-471-5060, e-mail: kanipe@astro.as.utexas.edu)
- Price: USD 15.00 (USA) or USD 28.00 (other countries) for one year
subscription
- Comments: `Daily radio program that covers astronomy, space exploration,
and other space-related topics.'
3.10 Mars Explorer (1992)
- Producer: Virtual Reality Laboratories Inc. (2341 Ganador Court, San Luis
Obispo CA 93401, USA, phone: +1-805-545-8515, fax: +1-805-781-2259, BBS:
805-781-2257)
- Price: USD 69.95
- Installation requirements: 386 or better processor, VGA or Super VGA,
4MB RAM, Microsoft compatible mouse and driver, CD-ROM reader
- Material received: one CD-ROM and a manual
- Comments: High-resolution images of Mars from NASA's Viking missions
with a range of graphical features.
4.10 Guide Star Catalog Listing Program 1.1
- Author: Denis Priou (Institut Géographique National, 2 avenue
Pasteur, F-94160 Saint-Mandé, France)
- Distributor: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205;
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Material received: one 5.25" diskette for PCs
- Comments: Software to be used to extract data rom the HST Guide Star
Catalog (see the CD-ROMs section).
4.11 Sirius (1993) (ISBN 2-86899-10-7)
- Author: Franz Hack
- Distributor: Micro Application (58 rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière,
F-75010 Paris, France, phone: +33-1-47703244, fax: +33-1-47707604)
- Price: FRF 129 or BEF 790
- Installation requirements: 386 processor or better, 2MB RAM (4MB or more
recommended), about 2MB on hard disk, VGA or better, Microsoft compatible mouse,
Windows 3.1
- Material received: one 3.5" diskette and a manual
- Language: French
- Comments: Mapping software to locate objects on the sky with a range of
observing sites and various graphical capabilities.
4.12 DBCiel 1.0 (1992)
- Author: Christian Legrand
- Distributor: Destination Univers (260 route de la Bellevue, F-76160
Prèaux, France, phone: +33-35590436)
- Price: FRF 140
- Installation requirements: MS-DOS 3.2 or higher, CGA to VGA
- Material received: one 3.5" diskette and documentation (also available
on a 5.25" diskette)
- Language: French
- Comments: Database with extraction software of more than 2000 deep-sky
objects (magnitude brighter than 13 and declination north of -40 deg.)
.
4.13 The Arizona Database 8.0 (1993)
- Producer: The Arizona Database Project Inc. (3135 South 48th Street,
Suite 3, Tempe AZ 85282, USA, phone: +1-602-992-2813)
- Price: not quoted
- Installation requirements: IBM compatible computer with minimum of 512
Kbytes memory, a hard disk (minimum 9 Mbytes free space) and a standard display
adapter (80-charact. Hercules or equivalent, CGA, EGA, VGA).
- Material received: three 5.25" HD diskettes with documentation
- Comments: Impressive database software with Windows-like features and
charting capabilities.
4.14 HST Guide Star Catalog Programs (1992)
- Author: James E. McCartney
- Distributor: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205;
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: not quoted
- Installation requirements: depending of the diskette used (see below)
- Material received: three diskettes (one `for MacIIs with a Math
Coprocessor', one `for Macs without a Math Coprocessor' and one `for the Mac')
- Comments: Software to be used to extract data from the CD-ROM with the
HST Guide Star Catalog (see the CD-ROM section).
4.15 Extend 2.0
- Distributor: Imagine That! (6830 Via Del Oro, Suite 230, San Jose CA
95119, USA, phone: +1-408-365-0305, fax: +1-408-629-1251)
- Price: from USD 695 to 1285, plus extenions
- Installation requirements: Macintosh system 6 ot 7 with 3.1 Mbytes minimum
disk space
- Material received: two 3.5" demo diskettes
- Comments: Computer effective simulation design tool for the Macintosh with
graphical presentations, tutorials, and third-party libraries available.
5.1 Tapes of the night sky (ISBN 0-937707-17-1) (1988)
- Producer: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (390 Ashton Avenue, San
Francisco CA 94112, USA, phone: +1-415-337-1100, fax: +1-415-337-5205,
e-mail: rhavlen@stars.sfsu.edu)
- Price: USD 19.95
- Material received: two cassettes (Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter) and a
booklet
- Comments: Clear and good introduction narrated by Sherwood Harrington
(one season per side). The booklet contains a transcription of the tapes. They
are designed for mid-northern latitudes. Some notions of American baseball are
needed to fully understand the description of Pegasus ...
Our acknowledgements go to the various persons who provided the material listed
here and to those who assisted us with the technical difficulties sometimes
encountered when testing the products.
We encourage other producers to contribute to the MediaTheque project (see
separate announcement and registration form in this issue). Mention of the
products in the CDS Information Bulletin is free of charge. This periodical is
widely distributed to the world astronomical community. The products are stored
at CDS as a historical legacy. It is advisable to send two copies of each
product in case one of them would become corrupted with time.
MediaTheque's list of products, as well as these reports, can also be
consulted on-line through our Mosaic server either directly
(http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/heck/mtpres.htm) or through the main CDS page
(http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html). These Mosaic pages are also
regularly updated in case of change of addresses, telecommunication plugs, and
so on. A dedicated printed catalogue is also under consideration.
Readers should feel free to share suggestions, comments, corrections, and so on
with the author.
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