Hi folks, Small problem here... when I click in Tables/Lunar data, the colongitude value isn't there... Anyone else have this one ??? Any idea ??? Thanks... ...
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Richard Mallett
100114.573@...
Jun 1, 2000 8:46 pm
... value isn't there... Anyone else have this one ??? << Same here too. The column for 'Colong.' is empty. Richard. E-mail from: Richard Mallett, 01-Jun-2000...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:58 am
Hi folks, Embarrassed admission time... When I put together the 'lunar data' function, I thought it would be nice to have it show the libration (amount and ...
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Richard Mallett
100114.573@...
Jun 3, 2000 1:41 pm
... just a much better programmer than I was a year or two ago. In any case, this omission will be repaired the next time I post an update on the Web site....
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Stephen O'Leary
tede@...
Jun 4, 2000 3:05 pm
Wow! What's this Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, and where can I get it? Steve O'Leary...
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Richard Mallett
100114.573@...
Jun 4, 2000 5:38 pm
... << It's by John E. Westfall of ALPO, and is published by Cambridge University Press (www.cup.cam.ac.uk or www.cup.org) though I ordered mine from Amazon...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Jun 10, 2000 11:04 am
To all those interested I recently had a chance to test a Ultima2000 with Guide 7.....All OK. I used the Celestron cable although one made up is cheaper. ...
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Ray Nemoseck
ranemo@...
Jun 11, 2000 3:30 am
Hi James My name is ray Nemoseck and I have a celstar 8 with the advance astro master(aam). I need to know which pins comeing out of the aam are the transx and...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Jun 12, 2000 12:52 pm
Hi Ray I do know that the cable for the U2000 from Celestron will work with the AAM. I'll have a look around to see if I can get the do-it yourself cable ...
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Ray Nemoseck
ranemo@...
Jun 12, 2000 8:45 pm
Hi James I just got an e-mail from celestro and the are going to fax me the info. If you here of or know of anyone who needs this send them my way, thanks Ray ...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Jun 12, 2000 9:43 pm
Hi folks, In the process of answering another inquiry about encoders, I realized that I'd posted a few paragraphs about AAM cabling on my Web site over a year...
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Andre Germain
germain@...
Jun 12, 2000 9:49 pm
Bill, do you plan on visiting Stellafane? It would be a pleasure to pay homage! Cheers...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Jun 13, 2000 7:45 pm
Hi folks, Andre, I don't know if I'll be at Stellafane or not... thanks for reminding me, though; I need to figure out if I can make it! (It's one of the...
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Ned Smith
smithn00@...
Jun 19, 2000 12:28 pm
Does it matter how much time elapses between centering on alignment stars?...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Jun 19, 2000 1:17 pm
Hmmm...interesting. The angular distance between alignment stars (~60 deg) seems to be the most important factor in pointing accuracy. I got pretty good...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Jun 19, 2000 7:41 pm
Hi folks, I think Ned was asking about the situation for encoder-based systems, when using Guide. In that case, the delay between adding alignment stars...
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Andre Germain
germain@...
Jun 19, 2000 8:02 pm
Bill ---> ...And you would make me very happy too! (home grown scope) ... Theoretically, Meade and Celestron really ought to implement this extremely simple...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Jun 20, 2000 12:06 pm
Celestron have a "relative goto" function "onboard"the U2000. Apparently this allows for greater accuracy by choosing another alignment star. I'll have to...
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Bob Elliott
stargazr@...
Jun 20, 2000 3:10 pm
... The LX200 has a list of 250 alignment stars used in what they call High-Precision pointing. When you are in the H-P mode and want to go to a catalog...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Jun 20, 2000 6:06 pm
Hi James, I know Meade has such a function, and I'm not surprised that Celestron has one as well. The problem is that the function (at least for the LX-200)...
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Masaki Kouda
fp6m-kud@...
Jun 21, 2000 2:00 pm
Hi Guiders. I found little mystery about lunar eclipse of 16 July. Astronomical Ephemeris tells as : Prnumbra enterd : 10h46m4 (UT) Umbra entered : 11h57m0 ...
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Paul Schlyter
pausch@...
Jun 21, 2000 6:39 pm
... There are different ways to compute the size of the Earht's shadow. The problem is the Earht's atmosphere which enlarges the shadow, but by how much? That...
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James Ellis
ejge@...
Jun 22, 2000 11:23 am
Hello all for those interested I am trying to get together a webcam of the upcoming lunar eclipse. I have to find a camcorder though in the next two weeks or...
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Jan Manek
jmanek@...
Jun 22, 2000 12:27 pm
... Hi all, I had about month ago private email exchange about this with Bill, part ... That was on May 20, 2000 and I think that Bill had already uploaded ...
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Anthony J. Kroes
akroes@...
Jun 22, 2000 1:48 pm
Hello All, I am looking for a way to reconfigure Guide 7.0 to read my USNO A2.0 CD's from where I have copied them to a spare hard-drive on my 'observatory' ...
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Lawrence Harris
lawrence_harris@...
Jun 22, 2000 4:36 pm
Can someone clarify the method required to tell Guide how to find some types of asteroid as in the following case: asteroid named 2000 EB173 Guide does not...
... Did you marked 'Use MPCORB' in the menu 'Extras'? Regards, André...
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Bill J. Gray
pluto@...
Jun 22, 2000 5:11 pm
Hi folks, As Jan Manek indicated, I'd added 2% to the earth's radius when computing those tables of lunar eclipses. I hadn't realized that Jean Meeus favors...
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Anthony J. Kroes
akroes@...
Jun 22, 2000 6:29 pm
Pardon me for responding to my own post, but I was checking the Guide website for another question and inadvertantly answered my own USNO A2.0 question by...
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Bob Elliott
stargazr@...
Jun 22, 2000 8:36 pm
Hi Lawrence. Did you get Guide to show 2000 EB173? It is at Magnitude 19.9 and I had to set the mag limit up to 21 to show it. Also the suggestion that you...
