diff --git a/GUI/xephem/help/xephem.html b/GUI/xephem/help/xephem.html index 574d346..ec5b04d 100644 --- a/GUI/xephem/help/xephem.html +++ b/GUI/xephem/help/xephem.html @@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ substituted. If you figure out how to configure for another browser or you know of a better definition please send us your results and we will post on our web site.

-Note the entry for using IE under cygwin. In order for this to work, you must create an environment variable before running XEphem named XEHELPURL set to the @@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@ field varies from true north. Put another way,true az = magnetic bearing - mag decl. The model is stored in the file wmm.cof in the auxil directory of the shared directory. It is valid for 2000 through the end of 2004. Check http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/potfld/DoDWMM.shtml + href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-magnetic-model" target="new">https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-magnetic-model for updates.
@@ -1896,14 +1896,14 @@ hspace="10" width="266">This window provides a convenient tool to download, display and manage images from SOHO, the Solar +href="https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/">Solar & Heliospheric Observatory. Use of this extraordinary data is courtesy of the SOHO consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

The SOHO data is pulled from the web site -http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov. The host name is defined in the XEphem +https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov. The host name is defined in the XEphem resource XEphem.SOHOhost. This may be changed if necessary by placing a new value in the XEphem resource file.
 @@ -2195,8 +2195,8 @@ surface but would rather not change the XEphem date to a full Moon.
This value depends on the gamma of your display. A fine discussion of display gamma and a test image with which you can determine the gamma value of your own display may be found at the URL: http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/gamma/rwb/gamma.html. + href="https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/gamma/rwb/gamma.html" + target="new">https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/gamma/rwb/gamma.html.
Movie Demo

@@ -2547,7 +2547,7 @@ height. cloud imagery, ice, sea and land temperatures, courtesy Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin. The image is a gif file retrieved from http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif. + href="https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif" target="new">https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif. It is updated once every six hours. All other graphical features of the Earth view remain available as overlays to this image. Primary advantage is ease in determining whether weather will effect @@ -5391,7 +5391,7 @@ protocol, any other instrumentation whatsoever. The control can be performed via a simple fifo connection, or a much more flexible INDI interface. For a complete description of the INDI protocol, please download the reference specification from http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/INDI/INDI.pdf. + href="https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/INDI/INDI.pdf">https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/INDI/INDI.pdf. Here we only describe the INDI configuration window, the INDI control panel, testing the INDI system using the sample drivers, and finally the  simple fifo interface.
@@ -6325,13 +6325,12 @@ the frames directly as an actual movie because there are many such formats and other tools available to collect the files into a movie in your preferred format. For example, you could convert the PNG files into GIF files using pngtopnm and ppmtogif tools -from the netpbm +from the netpbm toolkit then make an -animated gif using whirlgif -or gifsicle. +animated gif using  +gifsicle. Another possibility is to use convert which is part of the -ImageMagick +ImageMagick collection. Check your system before looking too far, these tools are often already installed on many UN*X systems.
@@ -7992,7 +7991,7 @@ format if it is not already.

Several particularly useful sites as of this build are already entered. The first five are from Dr. TS Kelso's Earth satellite lists at celestrak.org. The other four are + href="https://www.celestrak.org">celestrak.org. The other four are the Minor Planet Center's lists of hot comets and unusual asteroids specially formatted for XEphem. @@ -8000,10 +7999,14 @@ Click Get beside the desired catalog to download the file to the Private directory and simultaneously load into XEphem memory.

-Special files created by the Minor Planet Center -and Lowell -Observatory may also be downloaded. Each organization maintains +Special files created by + +the Lowell +Observatory may also be downloaded. +Each organization maintains extensive lists of all known asteroids and produces on a regular basis Keplarian orbital elements precessed to the current date. Both are of excellent quality. When the Get @@ -8131,7 +8134,7 @@ This catalog has been included with permission of USNO as long as we mention the following stipulations:

It may not be the latest version, -check with http://www.usno.navy.mil.
+check with https://www.usno.navy.mil.
If you paid for XEphem, you paid for the software, not this catalog. The catalog is available free from @@ -8188,7 +8191,7 @@ UCAC

This choice allows using the USNO Astrographic catalog with XEphem. For more information on this catalog please refer to -here. +here. As of release UCAC4, the directory specified must be that which contains the u4b and u4i directories. In turn, u4b must contain all 900 z files and u4i must contain u4index.unf and u4hpm.dat. @@ -8489,7 +8492,7 @@ Save it, the change only effects XEphem until you exit.

8.2.2 Star colors

XEphem assigns colors to stars based on their spectral classification. The default colors were chosen based on work done by Mitchell Charity. + href="https://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/starcolor">Mitchell Charity. The colors are specified using X Resources. The resource names each begin with "XEphem.starSpect" followed by one or two characters. The value of the resource is the color. The following table shows the @@ -8899,15 +8902,14 @@ correct use of Sky View options in individual planetary views. contributed by the late Guillermo Andrade Velasco.

The Blue Marble project at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble -for their + href="https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/collection/1484/blue-marble">https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/collection/1484/blue-marblefor their wonderful whole-earth color images.

Corrections for ecliptic longitude from Adrian Robinson, adrianprobinson@yahoo.co.uk

The stellar spectra colors are based on work by Mitchell Charity, mcharity@lcs.mit.edu, at -http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/starcolor. +https://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/starcolor.

Thanks to Paul Schlyter for some improved anomaly code.

@@ -8937,7 +8939,7 @@ based on map from http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/fun/sm-new.htm copyright

The local magnetic declination model is from the DoD World Magnetic Model as published at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/potfld/DoDWMM.shtml + href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-magnetic-model">https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-magnetic-model

Thanks to Fridger Schrempp, fridger.schrempp@desy.de, for his long term encouragement of the project, and particularly for many @@ -8950,7 +8952,7 @@ code, as converted from FORTRAN to C by Magnus Backstrom, b@eta.chalmers.se. See "Spacetrack Report Number 3: Models for Propagation of NORAD Element Sets" at http://www.celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/spacetrk.pdf + href="https://www.celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/spacetrk.pdf">https://www.celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/spacetrk.pdf

Improvements to Delta T code, help and wording contributed by Neal McBurnett, nealmcb@bell-labs.com.

@@ -8975,13 +8977,13 @@ Laser Altimeter on board the Mars Global Surveyor, operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. -See http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs +See https://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs

The near real-time weather map in the Earth view is provided by the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin. See their web site at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/ssec.html + href="https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/">https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data

The XEphem logo was contributed by Jonathan Adams, jfadams@mail.arc.nasa.gov. The galaxy background image is from Galaxy @@ -8989,7 +8991,7 @@ Photography, www.galaxyphoto.com.

For the years 1999-2010 the natural satellite ephemerides for Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are based on developments in mixed functions computed and contributed at Bureau Des Longitudes, -http://www.bdl.fr +https://www.bdl.fr by J.-E. Arlot, Ch. Ruatti and W. Thuillot. Many thanks!

Outside this range, Jupiter's moons based on information in @@ -9059,7 +9061,7 @@ which grew into the new bitmap clipmask approach of drawing the stars.

Thanks to Jim Bell, jimbo@cuspif.tn.cornell.edu, and the team at Mars Watch for encourage, support and ideas for the first Mars albedo map in XEphem. The map as of Version 3.3 is from -http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/mars.html +http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/mars.html

Thanks to Dimitromanolakis Apostolos <apdim@grecian.net> for his contribution leading to support for fetching DSS in gzipped form.

@@ -9135,7 +9137,7 @@ Richard Talcott, published in _Astronomy_, October 1995, page 76.

Thanks to Richard Clark (rclark@lpl.arizona.edu) for an improved version of anomaly.c.

A great source of comet information is http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov + href="https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/">https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/

Special thanks to Uwe Bonnes, bon@LTE.E-TECHNIK.uni-erlangen.de, and Ralphe Neill, ran@rdt.monash.edu.au, for their many ideas and @@ -9159,9 +9161,9 @@ the July 1993 issue of Sky and Telescope. Any errors in transcription are strictly my own.

Thanks to Lowell Observatory and the Minor Planet Center for maintaining their huge lists of asteroids. See -ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html +https://asteroid.lowell.edu/ and -http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/mpc.html +https://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/mpc.html , respectively.

Thanks to the National Space Science Data Center and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for the SAO star catalogue.

@@ -9401,6 +9403,6 @@ program was named xephem. I have been diddling with it ever since. The original ephem is still available.
+ href="https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ephem/">available.
diff --git a/Site/INDI.html b/Site/INDI.html index 5497aac..92fb363 100644 --- a/Site/INDI.html +++ b/Site/INDI.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ XEphem: INDI Device Control
-Control any INDI-compliant devices with XEphem. +Control any INDI-compliant devices with XEphem.

@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ Get free INDI drivers online for

  • Meade and JMI focusers and many more devices from the -indilib.org. +indilib.org.

    Also see the ASCOM/INDI gateway and Java implementations at -Cloudmakers. +Cloudmakers.

    diff --git a/Site/changes.html b/Site/changes.html index e248f70..793ffe0 100644 --- a/Site/changes.html +++ b/Site/changes.html @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ Released June 6, 2004

  • Plot and List now have Undo controls.
  • Plot, List and Solver can now save and restore configurations.
  • Telescope control now supports INDI, a + href="https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/INDI/INDI.pdf">INDI, a highly flexible XML protocol.
  • More data options and crisper graphs in AAVSO plot tool. diff --git a/Site/faq.html b/Site/faq.html index 77e35d2..915ea9e 100644 --- a/Site/faq.html +++ b/Site/faq.html @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ xephem@ClearSkyInstitute.com 10.8 (Mountain Lion), installing XCode does not install the command line development tools. To do that, just start XCode, open Preferences/Components and install the Command Line Tools. Also as of Mountain Lion, Apple no longer ships X11. You now get it from - http://xquartz.macosforge.org. + https://xquartz.macosforge.org.

    Now that you have command line tools such as cc and make and X11 installed, read the INSTALL file inside the XEphem tarball for the proper way to invoke the @@ -522,11 +522,11 @@ using XEphem on my web site or publications? placed somewhere on each such page: 

    -    <a target="csiwin" href="http://www.ClearSkyInstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html">Created using <b>XEphem</b></a>
+    <a target="csiwin" href="https://www.ClearSkyInstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html">Created using <b>XEphem</b></a>

    It should look and work like this: - + Created using XEphem.

    Regarding publications, the Postscript files generated by XEphem already diff --git a/Site/intro.html b/Site/intro.html index 5ca61d2..f1dd018 100644 --- a/Site/intro.html +++ b/Site/intro.html @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ and Solaris.">
    (icon background by - Galaxy Photography) + Galaxy Photography)
    @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ and Solaris."> * "It takes some getting used to, but it's worth the effort. Once you understand its peculiarities, you'll find that XEphem can do just about anything you ask ...". Quoted with permission from - Astronomy Hacks + Astronomy Hacks Copyright © 2005 Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson.
    @@ -134,9 +134,9 @@ and Solaris.">

    * XEphem does not run under native Windows but it works fine using a virtualization toolkit such as - Virtualbox and + Virtualbox and a free linux distro such as - OpenSUSE. + OpenSUSE.

    diff --git a/Site/sun.html b/Site/sun.html index 75aa6a6..f247328 100644 --- a/Site/sun.html +++ b/Site/sun.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ XEphem: Sun

    Near real-time Solar images from the -SOHO +SOHO spacecraft. Download, save and view images from 8 data products in three size formats.