From: manders1@csc.com (Mark Anderson)
Subject: gax 1.0 - galaxy DB utility for astronomy
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 08:14:06 GMT

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Announcing the first release of Gax, a program for amateur astronomy.

What can it do?

Gax can create searchable databases of galaxy information that can then
be searched based on user selectable ranges for fields in the database.

The information contained in or derived from the database includes:

	RA
	Declination
	Major/Minor Diameter
	Position Angle
	Magnitude
	Surface Brightness
	Constellation
	Uranometria 2000 Map number
	Local Transit Time

The cataloged names maintained include:

	NGC  IC   UGC
	MCG  ESO  PGC
	Arp  VV   CGCG
	Messier   Markarian

The search criteria include:

	Minimum and/or Maximum for
		RA
		Declination
		Major/Minor Diameter
		Magnitude
		Surface Brightness
		Transit Time

	Select only
		U2K map numbers
		Constellations
		Catalogs
		Catalog Names

	Other
		include objects within specified distance of [RA,Dec]
		exclude objects in specific constellation(s)
		exclude objects in specific catalog(s)

Report formatting is also under complete user control providing the
ability to tailor the report output to your specific needs.

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Title:          gax - An galaxy database search tool for amateur astronomy
Version:        gax-1.0
Entered-date:   08MAY98
Description:    Gax is a set of programs that allows creation of custom
                databases of astronomical information and then uses these
                databases to allow full-feature searching and report
                generation based upon user specified criteria.  These are
                command line utilities.  This initial release contains
                information on >70K galaxies.
Keywords:       astronomy amateur galaxy database search
Author:         manders1@csc.com (Mark Anderson)
Maintained-by:  manders1@csc.com (Mark Anderson)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/science/astronomy
                         (temp) /pub/Linux/Incoming
                1664Kb gax-1.0.tar.gz
                   1Kb gax.lsm
Alternate-site: 
Original-site:  
Platforms:      Linux, gcc
Copying-policy: GPL
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