Hallo Northern Sky 3.3.1a

Welcome to the semi professional free planetarium program HNSKY for MS Windows, intended for amateur astronomers. The program controls your telescope via the ASCOM interface, has a comprehensive up to date deep sky database with 30.000 objects and detailed descriptions, a star database with millions of stars and hunderds of Deep Sky Survey images which blends in accurately. Additional the program can access the online version of the Deep Sky Survey, allows online update of the asteroid and comet databases and can search online in professional astronomical databases. Is provided with menus in 21 languages and it is totally free without any advertisement or restriction!!

Whats New
- Added a modern date & time input and a monthly calender. The calendar doesn't allow dates beyond year 1752 and 9999 so there is still an traditional input. The midnight button is now setting 23:00 hours. since 24:00 hours is not allowed in the current setup.
- Automatic daylight saving adjustment for time zones in the setting menu
USA: PST/PDT, MST/MDT, CST/CDT, EST/EDT
Europe: GMT/BST CET/CEST
The daylight saving is based on the current valid rules and works from 1977 (arbitrary) to year 20.000+. No effort is made to follow historical changes using a so called Time Zone Database. Using the function buttons F3, F4, F5, F6 it is possible to step through the daylight saving dates changes.
- Uses the decimal separator dot or comma as specified in your (Windows) system settings . However the dot as separator is always accepted.
Both the daylight saving and date & time menu took significant effort to implement. Please review and report any bug or problem.
Some work for the translation files is still required.
Updated the help file and non-English files.

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