[Scott8586]

Hi Folks,

HelioStat, a program for the BlackBerry Smartphone, allows you to determine
the time and location of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and lunar
phase on your BlackBerry for any date and location you specify.
HelioStat includes the following features:

• Provides both the time, and azimuth of sunrise and sunset.
• Provides the time of civil, nautical and astronomical dawn and twilight.
• Provides the current location of the sun in azimuth and elevation.
• Allows time shifting to predict or anticipate the location of the sun at any date and time.
• Provides both the time, and azimuth of moonrise and moonset.
• Provides the phase of the moon.
• A compiled list of nearly 250 North American and World Cities.
• When available, HelioStat use your smartphone's GPS information.
• Keeps track of your last used location for quick recall, or...
• Keeps track user supplied coordinates
• Works independently of cellular data networks.

With Version 1.3, you can now use the horizontal motion of the trackball,
touchscreen "swipe" gestures or the keyboard to time shift through the day,
showing the new location of the sun in azimuth and elevation.

Supported keyboard shortcuts: capital A, S, D make time shift backwards,
while capital J, K, and L shift time forwards. Capital C, U, and R signal
"Calculate", "GPS Update", and "Reset time" respectively. Lower case
letters remain available to use search through the Location choice selector.

An options screen now allows you to customize what is displayed on the main
screen, and control other aspects of the user interface.

There are versions for OS 4.2.1 or later, and an OS 4.7 version for the Storm.

I don't yet have the ability to post links, but you'll be able to figure it out from this:

www tworoads net /bb/heliostat

Thanks.

- Scott

[Scott8586]

HelioStat, a program for calculating sunrise and set, moonrise and set, and more, has been updated to version 1.6.1

New features for this release include:

1) Tracking the location of the moon in azimuth and elevation (in the same way the program tracks the location of the sun)
2) Shadow length of objects illuminated by the sun.
3) Optimizations and diagnostics for GPS information.
4) Bug fixes to the Registration screen on the Storm version.

This upgrade is free to registered users.

I don't yet have the ability to post links, but you'll be able to figure it out from this:

www tworoads net /bb/heliostat

Thanks.

- Scott

[Scott8586]

HelioStat, a program for calculating sunrise and set, moonrise and set, and more, has been updated to version 1.7.2

New features for this release:

1) A geomagnetic model of the earth has been integrated into HelioStat.
This allows calculating the approximate magnetic declination at your
location and the reporting of azimuth relative to magnetic north: useful if
you want to anticipate the rise, set or location of the sun or moon using HelioStat and a compass.

2) A small popup shows some information about the geomagnetic model at your location.

3) Altitude is included for all predefined cities and for GPS output
(Altitude is helpful/useful when calculating magnetic declination).

4) Five free form coordinate locations are available from the location menu:
you can set the coordinates by hand, or using the GPS, you can name the
locations, and you can add descriptive notes.

HelioStat: find sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and the location of the sun

Thanks.

- Scott