Hi Bill Before I do any Charon astrometry, I take my original CCD image and subtract the dark frame, then save the result as a FIT file for Charon. Is that not...
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Andre Germain
germain@...
Mar 1, 2000 1:46 pm
Bill, it has been a year since I used Charon... instead of telling which object the image is of, can it extract the RA and DEC from the fit file and search ...
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Thomas Roehr
throehr@...
Mar 1, 2000 7:54 pm
Hi GUIDEs, according to Bob Elliott in mail no 422 I tried to install and use MPCORB. After HOURS of calculations I stopped it with <ctrl-alt-del> and now...
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Andre Germain
germain@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:04 pm
Bill, I downloaded latest guide, installed it on my home and observatory PCs (linked via network). The observatory has all of guide on the hard disk, the home...
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Richard Mallett
100114.573@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:33 pm
The alt-key combinations for lunar (and planetary) features now work fine; but now I have another request - could we have the option to turn off the features...
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Bob Elliott
elliottb@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:56 am
... Hi Thomas. You probably won't take any more advice from me but here goes anyway. Do you still have use MPCORB checked in the Extras menu. If you no...
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Jean-Gabriel BOSCH
Jean-Gabriel.Bosch@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:56 am
Hello, I install the upgrade for Guide7, but there are a big problem when I use goto/asteroid, the asteroid its not visible. I have charged MPCORBcr.Dat Please...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:26 pm
Jean-Gabriel Have you got the mag limit set properly in Display>Data Shown? (english) All mine somehow worked their way to -28 one day! Now i'd like to see (or...
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Jean-Gabriel BOSCH
Jean-Gabriel.Bosch@...
Mar 2, 2000 3:49 pm
... Yes I have. ... I have try too, but it isnt'nt works. Thank you very much for your aid JG.Bosch 6°08.4' E +46°08.6' N...
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Roger Pickard
rdp@...
Mar 3, 2000 11:56 am
Hi Lawrence, As a new boy to ccd photometry, I've read and been told that this is the correct way to do things. And then if Charon can to the flat-fielding, ...
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Dan Kaiser
dhkaiser@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:09 pm
Hi Guide and Charon users, I am a long time Guide user and a ccd photometrist. Asking Bill to include flat fielding in Charon seems silly to me. All ccd ...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Mar 3, 2000 7:54 pm
Hi folks, DARKS/FLATS: My inquiries about dark subtraction and flat-fielding drew some mixed replies, mostly by private e-mail. About half the replies said...
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Claude Boivin
cboivin@...
Mar 3, 2000 10:59 pm
Bill Just a question about the dark frames, will you add the capability to have a master dark frames, that can adjust itself to any light frames ? Or will the...
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Oliver Kloes
100.337340@...
Mar 5, 2000 2:40 pm
Hi, I think there is a small error in the etb-file for satellite passes in the german version. If I open the list, the hours of "set" are missing. Goto the...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Mar 5, 2000 3:13 pm
Hello I agree, If there could be a dialogue box with focal length, eyepiece and app. field then click ok to get the fov on screen, it would make it a lot...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Mar 5, 2000 7:35 pm
Hi folks, SATELLITE PASSES IN GERMAN: There are actually _two_ problems here. Edit the file DEUTSCH.DAT and look at line 1394, and change ^Erl„uterungen zu...
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Matt Dawson
dawson@...
Mar 6, 2000 12:13 pm
After a lengthy phone call to my observing partner Andre last night, his wife asked him 'Who is Sharon and what was she doing at your observatory'? Apparently...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Mar 6, 2000 1:38 pm
Hmmmmm...... I thought it was pronounced Khay-ron. That's what I was toort at skool. I remember now... and Khay-ron will ferry you over the river Styx to see...
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Matt Dawson
dawson@...
Mar 6, 2000 2:53 pm
Of course you are right with the pronunciation.... If I had a proper education I probably wouldnt spend my time messing around with telescopes! However I DO...
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Matt Dawson
dawson@...
Mar 6, 2000 3:03 pm
I meant to add: PS Because all my better educated friends are well paid doctors and lawers!...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Mar 6, 2000 4:44 pm
I've been asked about the pronunciation of 'Charon' from time to time... I _think_ that, in the original Greek, the name begins with the letter Chi,...
Hi folks, since March 6 I didn't receive any new mail. What happened? Clear guide, Werner...
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Andre Germain
germain@...
Mar 9, 2000 10:16 pm
Werner, don't you know! North America was wiped out by a nuclear attack by Canada. I'm writing to you from my bunker, sole survivor of the Canadian amateurs......
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Bob Elliott
elliottb@...
Mar 9, 2000 11:49 pm
... The attack must have been aimed at the Southwest where the major concentration of survey sites is located. I am still alive and well here at 750 but the...
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Claes Schibler
Claes-Goran.Schibler@...
Mar 10, 2000 12:36 am
Hi users! Is it therefore we got snow here in Stockholm Sweden The children at the daycare outside on the earlier day played around and was happily noisy ;-) ...
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SandyMc456@...
Mar 10, 2000 3:00 am
In a message dated 3/9/00 4:43:48 PM Central Standard Time, germain@... ... Can't speak for the rest, but around the home fort the weather has FINALLY been...
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David Firebaugh
arialdrop@...
Mar 10, 2000 4:33 am
This is a deceased North American amateur astronomer , writing from the heavens ... Well ,better Dead than Red .Oh by the way , do you guys really supply free ...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Mar 10, 2000 10:03 am
Ever seen the movie "on the beach?" -the old one that is I turned on Guide the other day to check out the best visibility of the May 17 Venus-Jupiter...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Mar 10, 2000 10:04 am
Will there be NexStar support in Guide 8 - a question I get asked a lot at work. Cheerioskies James PS I'm off looking for steppers next week! wooohoooo ...
