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v3.3 Changes

- Better performance when switching between months in the calendar
- Better performance when mousing over the main view
- Large size is now the default
- Expanded explanation of the sidereal clock’s Degrees field
- Highlights in the calendar are more visible
- Improved appearance of calendar navigation arrows

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Release Notes

DRAGGING THE GADGET: To move the gadget you must use Microsoft’s drag pad for the gadget, which appears when you hover over the gadget. I don’t know why, but having a flyout on the gadget (the calendar) disables dragging. I’ll keep looking for a solution, but I don’t know how to work around this yet. On user suggested using a double-click instead and that does work, but I don’t like the idea of adding a click to something common like opening the calendar in exchange for making something uncommon like dragging slightly easier. The Calendar gadget that comes with Windows seems to be able to handle both clicks and drags, so I’m going to examine that sometime to see how it’s supposed to be done.

v3.2.1 Changes

- Corrected orientation of moon image
- Added (degrees) note to Longitude field

v3.2 Changes

- Uses accurate algorithm for calculating phases instead of simple approximation

v3.1 Changes

- Optional large moon size (off by default)
- Optional sidereal sky map (off by default)

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Release Notes

DRAGGING THE GADGET: To move the gadget you must use Microsoft’s drag pad for the gadget, which appears when you hover over the gadget. I don’t know why, but having a flyout on the gadget (the calendar) disables dragging. I’ll keep looking for a solution, but I don’t know how to work around this yet. On user suggested using a double-click instead and that does work, but I don’t like the idea of adding a click to something common like opening the calendar in exchange for making something uncommon like dragging slightly easier. The Calendar gadget that comes with Windows seems to be able to handle both clicks and drags, so I’m going to examine that sometime to see how it’s supposed to be done.

v3.2 Changes

- Uses accurate algorithm for calculating phases instead of simple approximation

v3.1 Changes

- Optional large moon size (off by default)
- Optional sidereal sky map (off by default)

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Full Sun v2.1 Release Notes

v2.1 Changes:

- Added movie to sidebar
- URL cache for better responsiveness when changing detectors

DRAGGING THE GADGET: To move the gadget you must use Microsoft’s drag pad for the gadget, which appears when you hover over the gadget. For some reason if a gadget wants to do something when clicked (like this one does), then dragging it by its face stops working. One commenter pointed out that I could change the click to a double-click to work around this, but I don’t want to add an extra click to opening the detector browser (something people might do a lot) to make it easier to drag the gadget, which most people don’t do very often. Hopefully there’s a better solution somewhere which involves being able to click AND drag a gadget (gasp!).

THE BLACK FRAME: The Sun is in Space, which is what the black frame is. I don’t know of any way to remove that from the image in a gadget, especially while preserving the prominences. I tried to make it look as attractive as I could, sorry if it’s not enough. But then, you got this for free and I wrote it for free so hopefully expectations are set accordingly ;)

SIDEBAR MOVIE: 2.1 adds the ability to play a movie in the Sidebar instead of just showing the current image. This consumes a noticable amount of my CPU, which is a fairly low-end machine by today’s standards (single-core 1.8 GHz Pentium M). My recommendation is that only dual-core users enable this.

PLAYBACK SPEED: The movie playback supports half speed but my copy of Windows Media Player has issues with playing back at 1/2 speed (it goes black after one loop). I originally also had 1/4 speed, but WMP completely barfed on that. I’m leaving in the 1/2 speed option in case it’s just my copy of WMP or in case Microsoft fixes the issue (assuming it’s theirs and not mine).

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v3.1 Changes:

- Optional large moon size (off by default)
- Optional sidereal sky map (off by default)

DRAGGING THE GADGET: To move the gadget you must use Microsoft’s drag pad for the gadget, which appears when you hover over the gadget. I don’t know why, but having a flyout on the gadget (the calendar) disables dragging. I’ll keep looking for a solution, but I don’t know how to work around this yet. On user suggested using a double-click instead and that does work, but I don’t like the idea of adding a click to something common like opening the calendar in exchange for making something uncommon like dragging slightly easier. The Calendar gadget that comes with Windows seems to be able to handle both clicks and drags, so I’m going to examine that sometime to see how it’s supposed to be done.

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Download now for Windows Vista

Full Moon 3.0 is now available. New in this version:

• The four phases are highlighted in the calendar
• A sidereal clock (it’s off by default, use the Settings to enable it)
• Rotate the moon image 180 degrees for more comfortable viewing from the Southern hemisphere