Sky Travel Easter Egg list
Sky Travel is an excellent Astronomy program for the Commodore 64.
First published in 1984 by Commodore the program was re-released by Microillusions in 1988.
The program contains a database of “celestial objects numbering in the thousands, hemispheric and topocentric views, latest NASA stellar and planetary ephemerides, skies from 12,000 years in the past to 8,000 years in the future, and accurate celestial representations that take into account the effects of polar precession and nutation.”
Accompanying the program was an excellent manual (138 page bound book from Commodore and 60 page glossy manual from Microillusions).
But the program doesn't stop at being “an all encompassing Astronomy program.”
The programmers knew how to have some fun as well. The manual informs you how to change the sky mode cursor to a space ship shape (suspiciously similar to the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek) but it does not outline the Easter Eggs hidden in the program. The list of Easter Eggs was printed in the June/July 1985 issue of Commodore Power/Play Magazine and is presented here so you can get the full Sky Travel experience.
Sky Travel Easter Eggs
Polar Bear in Alert,
Canada
82 deg North 63 deg West
Visible 3000 B.C. to 3000 A.D
looking North
Empire State
Building, New York
40 deg 43 min N 74 deg 01 min W
Visible May
1937 to May 2937 looking SSW
CN Tower, Toronto
43
d 42 m N 79 d 18 m W
Visible Jan 1970 to Jan 2070 looking SW
Gateway Arch, St.
Louis
38 d 38 m N 90 d 11 m W
Visible July 1948 to July 2948
looking NNE
Mount Fuji, Tokyo
35
d 42 m N 139 d 48 m E
Visible 4713 B.C. to 9999 A.D. looking NE
St. Basil Cathedral,
Moscow
55 d 48 m N 37 d 42 m E
Visible 1555 to 2001 looking NW
Golden Gate Bridge,
San Francisco
37 d 48 m N 122 d 24 m W
Visible 1937 to 2937
looking WNW
Penguin, Sir James
Ross, Antarctica
68 d S 56 d W
Visible 3000 B.C. to 3000 A.D.
looking S
Pyramid, Giza,
Egypt
29 d 45 m N 31 d 18 m E
Visible 2613 B.C. to 7000 A.D.
looking N
Eiffel Tower,
Paris
48 d 53 m N 2 d 18 m E
Visible 1889 to 2889 looking SSE
Big Ben, London
51
d 30 m N 0 d 12 m E
Visible 1859 to 2859 looking SSW
If you want to see what the Easter Eggs look like check out Barry Carter's Sky Travel Easter Egg blog
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