COELIX APEX Update
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Update 2.087 for COELIX APEX
CAUTION : This update does not work with COELIX LITE. The lite version has its own updates that you will find here.

Moreover, this update only works if you have a fully functional version of COELIX APEX more recent than 2.056 already installed on your computer.

If you have a version older than 2.056, contact the author to request a full redownload (free) of the software.
To be considered complete, this update of COELIX APEX may require the execution of more than one installation program: main update of the software, update of the orbital elements of comets, update of orbital elements of asteroids, etc.

In each case, the download dialog box of your browser asks if you want to execute immediately or save the installation programs. Choose "Save" to keep a copy, and then run them from your computer.

Complementary updates


Update of the orbital elements of comets and asteroids


Click here to find out how to do the updates of the orbital elements of comets and asteroids.

A new update of the numbered IAU asteroids is available since the 2.087 version (more than 300,000 asteroids).

These updates are necessary to allow COELIX to display accurately the positions of comets and asteroids and calculate precisely the ephemeris of these celestial bodies.

Update of the longitude of the Jupiter's Red Spot

The longitude of Jupiter's Red Spot is now equal to
177° according to data from JUPOS.
You can update this value in COELIX in the menu Preferences and settings / Longitude of the Jupiter's Red Spot.

The longitude of the Red Spot varies randomly with time and must be updated several times a year to ensure that the Red Spot appears at the right place on the globe of Jupiter and that the times of its transits are accurate.

Installation of the Guide Star Catalogue

Required to ensure that COELIX APEX can show the stars to magnitude 15.6 in the sky maps of 16X zoom and in the visual fields. The Guide Star Catalogue is already included with COELIX APEX obtained on CDROM by mail.

You can install the Guide Star Catalogue if you got COELIX APEX via download and have not yet installed the GSC.

Installation of the GhostScript and GSView programs

The two free programs GhostScript and GSView are necessary to enable COELIX to save the sky maps and the graphic almanac in vectorial PDF format. You will then be able to view and print these maps and almanacs with Acrobat Reader ™.

See help in COELIX to download and install these programs.

Installation of the ASCOM platform

In order to control a motorized telescope with COELIX, you must download and install the ASCOM platform and the driver of the model of the telescope. These free programs are available on the ASCOM Website.

See help in COELIX to install and use ASCOM.
Description of the current update
Version Date Description
2.087
2012/03/08 Sky maps
Possibility of limiting the magnitude of visible stars even more to prevent clutter.
Visual fields
Adding the predefined CCD camera models Basler AiryLab.
Star catalogues
Adding a third column for the star numbers in the SAO, HD or HIP catalogues.
Bugfixes
1 - Message "Can not make a visible window modal" with the search engine when we forgot to close the information form obtained by clicking on the celestial bodies in the sky maps or views of hemisphere and virtual telescope.
2 - The wording of the sky maps that are reset to default positions when changing language (English-French).
Miscellaneous
Update the list of numbered asteroids from JPL. Do yourself the update with asterj9.dat.
Update elements of meteors for 2012.
Version Expected date Description
2.088 June 2012 Telescope control
Adding a new predefined telescope model: Losmandy G11 if all goes well with tests.

More to be defined...
Future updates under preparation
Galileo project JPL NASA
Version Date Description
2.086 2011/12/22 Information form when you click on a celestial body
Possibility to click successively on several bodies in the views of the hemisphere, virtual telescope and sky maps without the need to close the info form each time.
Graphic Almanac
Option of displaying the Almanac time and Universal Time for observation stations located within ± 30° of longitude from the Greenwich meridian.
Comets
Update of the file of orbital elements of the JPL comets (more than 3000 comets).
2.085 2011/10/26 Asteroid 2005 YU55
Modifications to view the trajectory of this asteroid that passes close to Earth on the night of 8 to 9 November 2011:
- The table of asteroids was limited to 2000 asteroids and asteroid YU55 is further down in the list of unusual asteroids, so extend the limit to 20,000;
- For the trajectories of asteroids on the sky maps, the minimum interval between the ticks in the trajectory goes from 1 day to 1 hour (required for this asteroid that moves very fast).
2.084 2011/10/03 Visual fields
Adding new CCD camera models.
Possibility to add an autoguiding CCD camera for the group of digital cameras (CANON, NIKON ...).
New X-Y mode for autoguiding cameras: camera mounted on a X-Y stage at the focus of a guiding telescope.
Telescope control
Adding a new predefined telescope model: IOptron EQ45 and iEQ75.
2.083 2011/08/03 Misc.
First version fully bilingual (english and french).
Several other minor changes and corrections.
2.082 2011/06/12 Graphic almanac
Modification of the colors of twilight zones and of some lines that came out too dark when printed.
Other minor corrections.
Visual fields
Corrections to resolve operating problems giving error messages in some cases since the addition of the secondary CCD.
Comets
Update of the full list of comets from JPL (more than 3000 comets).
History of the five previous updates
Main update                                             Security Notice

Follow the instructions of the running installation program. Choose to install the update in the folder that already contains Coelix.exe, for example C:\COELIX. The installer asks you if you want to continue the installation even if the selected folder already exists. Answer YES and continue.

Please submit your personal activation key. (Enter all characters, including the +, the -, the semicolon, etc.) :





Note 1 : You can use this activation key to download and install this update on up to three computers you own.

Note 2 : In case of problems, please contact us at the email address given in the Contact page by sending us your activation key in your message. We can also provide you a CDROM of COELIX at a discount price if you cannot really install this update.