Hello. Tried to make the sup file, drawing on the map radiants of meteor showers. Data source - http://www.imo.net/calendar/2011. Waiting for critiques. file: ...
I am back for my regular checkup! So I am looking at the page linked to below, and I don't see a "10,000 asteroid" file.. Is there a particular file, or do I...
Hi all, I am not sure why but this problem has now fixed itself and hnsky is working perfectly on my hp (vista) laptop now. I appears that maybe one of latest...
Hnsky is very impressive, but like all these software astronomy programs it's just looking at a little picture on a computer screen. How much better it would ...
Hello All This is the first post to the group, I live in the UK and Iv been told that this software is good for me to use with my Ioptron GotoNova as a PC...
Hi Andy HNSKY has an ASCOM interface and works fine with Meade ETX scopes so if your mount is comaptible with that it should work. The software is free so it...
HI Peter thanks for the reply. Iv got the large HNsky programme but on the HNSKY site there is a load of other add on programms such as the star databases and...
Hi Andy Which databases you will need depends on what you want to do, I have them all, but only use a few of them. Deep sky 1 and 3 get used quite a bit,...
venus will be in transit of the sun on june 6, 2012 around 7pm EDT for toronto ontario. HNSKY puts the transit on June 5, one day early. could someone please...
Display the below with a fixed Font, such as Courier and the columns will line up. Transit of Venus on 2012 Jun 6 (I agree this should be Jun 5th and I ...
Hi Derek, Thanks for your reply. the time of midtransit for toronto (sun has already set)from Fred Espanek's web page is 1:28 UT. for june 6, 2012. to get EDT...
Hi, I do deep sky imaging and the background stars in HNSKY are important. I am unable to display UCAC3. I have copied the two sides of the DVD to the HNSKY...
On the FILE menu select SETTINGS and then select the SETTINGS tab.. At the lower right, click the UCAC3 radio button and make sure the path to the files is...
Thanks Derek. Please let me know idf this is normal. When I view the screen using UCAC3, only stars in an approx. 4 X 8 degree area are shown at a time. Tom...
Yes.. It's normal.. I do asteroid occultations and don't turn on the UCAC3 stars until I have found the target I am looking for.. That 4x8 deg area will be...
Thanks Derek. Great piece of softrware... Tom ... From: Derek C Breit To: hnsky@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:50 PM Subject: RE: [group:...
It's far and away my favorite planetarium software.. Derek _____ From: hnsky@yahoogroups.com [mailto:hnsky@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of tom Sent: Wednesday,...
I was wondering about that myself Derek. I use an old version of Megastar which will also not convert Astorb properly since the MPC changed formats... Tom ... ...
Tom, Derek, Good day, A life sign from the Netherlands. This Astorb where does it come from? The minor planet is providing the MPCORB.dat file. Does the...
Hello Han- ASTORB comes directly from Lowell.. ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.dat.gz There is a mirror at Klet, and it is accessible in / with Vizier. I...
LOL !!! AMEN to THAT!! This is exactly what I said to myself when I opened the computer and say the email.. "YES!" I said loud enough for my dogs to bark.. ......
I downloaded mpcorb.zip and unzipped it in the Hnsky directory. I then ran the MPCorb convert batch file and it worked. I now have about 500,000 asteroids...
During next weekends I will spend some time on it. Can't be too difficult. However is there an useful purpose? You need to be very professional hunter to make...
Just for the record, using Astorb, all the asteroids appear on the screen and each time I move to another location in the sky, the screen takes verrrrrry long...
