Messier Marathon
Downloads Messier Marathon is a program that calculates an observation plan for a Messier Marathon including the positions in RA/Dec and Alt/Az for your location and the intended time. I use this program for the preparation of Messier Marathons in November...
[June 29, 2006, 4:01]
Vivendi Exec Shuffle Raises Net Questions
News Reports on Monday that Jean-Marie Messier is stepping down from his post as Vivendi Universal's chief executive cast a shadow over the future of the French media conglomerate's Internet unit. Messier, who has been embroiled in a boardroom backlash...
[July 2, 2002, 8:25]
Universal Throws Napster A Lifeline
News Vivendi's chief executive, Jean-Marie Messier, explained that his company would be prepared to licence its music to a legitimate version of Napster, if it was able to demonstrate that it respected copyright and operated secure encryption.
[March 6, 2001, 8:48]
Handsets Hold Key To Vivendi Vote 'piracy'
News The Tribunal authorised the investigation into the 'malfunctions' that occurred during the course of the general meeting held on 24 April, which was intended to gain the seal of approval for corporate investments urged by chief executive Jean...
[May 8, 2002, 15:56]
Vivendi Bids Au Revoir To Entertainment
News Vivendi is struggling with a crippling debt taken on in a bid by former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier to transform a sleepy French utility into a modern media titan, straddling the Internet, television, music and publishing.
[May 1, 2003, 11:44]
AstroLabium
Downloads You can also measure the diameter of planets, comets and Messier nebulae as well as the absolute diameter of moon craters. AstroLabium is used for Astronomy. You can determine the distance (as angle) between objects on astrophotos, e.g.double stars.
[February 7, 2008, 1:31]
Night Sky
Downloads This includes 20,000 stars (files with up to 50,071 stars available), the Messier catalog of deep space objects, the planets out to Neptune, the moon, and the sun. Night Sky 3.3 is a planetarium for Mac OS 10.2 'Jaguar'.
[July 10, 2003, 1:32]
Pocket Universe 2000
Downloads It displays Messier objects, using helpful icons, constellation outlines, and lunar phases for each month. Pocket Universe is a handheld guide to the night sky, with more than 9,000 stars, planets, and galaxies displayed as you really see them.
[July 24, 2003, 17:51]
Deepsky Free
Downloads Some of the things Deepsky Free can do include creating nice star charts, observing plans, query an 11,000 object database of objects, get information on the sun, moon, and planets, view images of all Messier objects.
[June 19, 2005, 3:03]
DeskNite
Downloads DeskNite displays more than 3,000 stars, nine planets, the sun, the moon, and Messier and NGC objects in point source and photoplate display styles, with stereographic, equal area, equidistant, and orthographic projection models.
[July 1, 1999, 5:31]
Asynx Planetarium
Downloads It covers over 10000 stars, the planets, messier objects, all 88 constellations, the moon with phase and the sun. Asynx Planetarium is a planetarium program and solar system simulator. It can display the night sky from any location on earth and...
[March 24, 2008, 22:23]
Pocket Stars
Downloads User interface optimized for simple and fast star, planet, and Messier object identification. Pocket Stars is a high accuracy, real-time sky chart, ephemeris, and celestial navigation calculator for the Pocket PC.
[April 2, 2007, 13:46]
Bertelsmann: Making Music With Napster Pt II
News Vivendi Universal's chief executive Jean-Marie Messier said they are not going to settle the Napster case until after the court decides because they learned from MP3.com that they can juice a lot of juice a lot out of this.
[February 7, 2001, 13:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now it's much messier. Monday 20/01/03When the ITV Digital liquidators told the million or so owners of set-top boxes that they had to send forty quid to keep them, the million or so owners expressed derision.
[January 24, 2003, 16:44]
Vodafone Launches Wireless Portal
News Gent said he shared a "vision of the future'' with Vivendi Chairman Jean-Marie Messier. In its latest move to convince investors that it is the right home for Germany's Mannesmann, giant telco Vodafone AirTouch (quote: VOD) Tuesday launched a...
[January 11, 2000, 16:57]
Napster: Court Deadline Approaches
News Vivendi Universal chief executive Jean-Marie Messier told the Financial Times much the same thing earlier in the week. By the end of Monday, music-swapping company Napster must prove to the court, the record labels and the world that it is...
[March 12, 2001, 8:06]
New Twist In Fight Against Software Piracy
News It would've been messier without question," Band said. The Business Software Alliance has filed a civil suit in the Northern District of California accusing 25 individuals of swapping pirated software on a high-speed Internet Relay Chat channel...
[November 18, 1999, 14:10]
AOL Wary Of Legal Napster
News Earlier this month, Vivendi Universal chief executive Jean-Marie Messier said the company would not settle with Napster if a court finds the swapping service in violation of the law. We have had discussions with Bertelsmann, but we haven't seen a...
[February 1, 2001, 8:40]
