Solar Eclipse Maestro 1.8.3v4 to be released late April 2013

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Solar Eclipse Maestro 1.8.3v4 to be released late April 2013

Postby xjubier » Mon Mar 18, 2013 3:12 am

Solar Eclipse Maestro 1.8.3v4, the most versatile and feature-rich application for solar eclipses, will be available for download in late April, just in time for ASE 2013.
This release will provide the following improvements:
- Improved Lion and Mountain Lion compatibility
- Use of more accurate Besselian elements for ASE 2013 and HSE 2013
- Adjusted the ∆T value for ASE 2013 (67.08s) and HSE 2013 (67.20s)
- Workaround for an error 70 caused by the Canon EOS 500D firmware when setting custom functions
- Support of the Nikon D7100
- Preliminary support of the Canon EOS 700D and 100D
- Improved the mirror lock-up handling
- Corrections for bracketing (Nikon only)
- Improved the exposure sequence analyzer
- Mirror lock-up wasn't always properly configured on a Nikon D600 and side effects could occur on other Nikon cameras
- Solar mesosphere can be used in place of the solar photosphere for computing the second and third contact times
- Added solar eclipses from 2020 to 2040
- Update to handle eclipses before the start of the Gregorian calendar
- Added historic solar eclipses from -1911 to 1997
- Fix for the sky chart from the poles
- Multiple corrections for the shadow animation on the eclipse map
- Improved the gridded set of points generator to create very high resolution maps (for Michael Zeiler)
- Minor user interface tweaks
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements
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