For commercial use the cost for the licence is USD50 for version 1.0 of the software. Please contact me for further information. Commercial is defined here as installing the service on a company server (unless the service is bought from that company) or collecting money for viewing the images or using them in any other use that can be interpreted as commercial (advertisement, astrologers, etc.).
Non-commercial organizations or individuals may volunteer to pay the licence fee (or a portion of it), especially if they want to encourage me to develop more features to the software, etc.
I take no responsibility for any damage that the use of this software may cause.
You can modify the image by giving the program parameters from (for example) a HTML form.
Notice: AstroImage is just a working name for this one program that actually is just one module in my astronomy software package that doesn't yet have any real name.
http://www.utu.fi/org/yhd/ursa/astroimage.cgi, it displays the output of that program as a GIF image. The actual program, astroimage.cgi would in this example be placed in your local HTML document tree, for example
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/org/yhd/ursa/astroimage.cgiThe way of identifying CGI-programs depends on your HTTP server software. The above example was for Spinner server (and some others). For a NCSA server it might be:
http://www.utu.fi/cgi-bin/astroimage.cgifor the program in server machine's directory:
/usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/astroimage.cgiWhat actually happends here is that the browser asks the server for the document http://www.utu.fi/org/yhd/ursa/astroimage.cgi. The server notices the .cgi end in the name and therefore knows that it is a program. It executes the program and sends all it's outputs back to the browser. Now, in the beginning of the output there is the header:
Content-type: image/gifThis tells the browser that the page is actually a GIF image.
gtar zxf astroimg-1.0-*.tar.gz(or something similar in the case you don't have gtar). You may already have done this.
The .arc-files are the star database files and they are in an internal binary format. The bright.arc-file contains about 270 brightest stars of which most have also names. sao.arc contains about 15000 stars (all up to +7.0 magnitude), of which about 200 have been named. Actually I cheated a little to get names for some of the sao stars and concatenated the bright-list in the end of the sao-list. Therefore there are about 270 duplicate stars but you won't really notice unless you zoom up enough... (..which you can't do currently..)
If you are using NCSA HTTP server, you may have to put the CGI-program (and the star files) under the cgi-bin directory and therefore elsewhere to where your other HTML documents reside. Ok, now it's installed..
http://www.utu.fi/org/yhd/ursa/astroimage.cgi?class=allsky&source=bright&loc_lat=45&language=english&loc_lo=70&date=25.12.1996&time=12:00:00&zone=-6&skycoloring=0&solarlines=0You can give the parameters in any order.
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/astro/unix/prog/astroimage/The latest working version that I use should be found at
http://www.utu.fi/org/yhd/ursa/astroimage.cgior through
http://www.utu.fi/org/yhd/ursa/astro.cgior with the form
http://www.utu.fi/org/yhd/ursa/astroim.htmlYou can contact me by sending mail to magi@utu.fi. All bug reports and improvement suggestions are welcome.
The source code is not available for several reasons. One is that I don't have enough time to create an easily compilable package. I might consider it after I manage to make an english version for the text version (astro.cgi).