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...
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Bill Simm
ve4alw
Mar 28, 2011 1:29 am
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...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Mar 28, 2011 1:36 am
Fortunately.. Not everyone has Silver light installed.. ... Derek "I wish the large asteroid file was updated" Breit Morgan Hill ... From:...
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Bob Yarwood
bob_yarwood
Jun 14, 2011 7:26 pm
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 ...
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Oshb5
oshb5ems
Jun 16, 2011 1:22 am
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...
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g4bch
Jun 16, 2011 7:03 am
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...
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Oshb5
oshb5ems
Jun 18, 2011 4:29 pm
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...
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g4bch
Jun 20, 2011 6:58 am
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,...
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jopkoam
Aug 15, 2011 1:50 pm
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...
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jopkoam
Aug 15, 2011 3:12 pm
I may have found the problem. the start of the transit is one day before midtransit in Universal Time. anton...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Aug 15, 2011 8:03 pm
Where did the 6/6 2012 at 7PM EDT time come from, because that is what is wrong.. You can't mix UT and EDT in a sentence. Derek _____ From:...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Aug 15, 2011 11:19 pm
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 ...
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jopkoam
Aug 16, 2011 3:03 pm
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...
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wa1vta01452
Dec 28, 2011 1:29 am
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...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Dec 28, 2011 6:08 pm
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...
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tom
wa1vta01452
Dec 28, 2011 7:34 pm
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...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Dec 28, 2011 9:50 pm
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...
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tom
wa1vta01452
Dec 28, 2011 10:11 pm
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:...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Dec 29, 2011 3:13 am
It's far and away my favorite planetarium software.. Derek _____ From: hnsky@yahoogroups.com [mailto:hnsky@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of tom Sent: Wednesday,...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Dec 29, 2011 3:19 am
I sure would like to know how to update the large asteroid file, or convert ASTORB for use in HNSKY.. ... Derek _____ From: hnsky@yahoogroups.com...
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tom
wa1vta01452
Dec 29, 2011 12:56 pm
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 ... ...
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han kleijn
han_kleijn
Jan 11, 2012 6:23 pm
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...
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nz_observatory
Jan 11, 2012 8:01 pm
Hooray! You're still around. :)...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Jan 11, 2012 11:19 pm
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...
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Derek C Breit
dbreit
Jan 11, 2012 11:22 pm
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.. ......
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tom
wa1vta01452
Jan 11, 2012 11:48 pm
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...
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nz_observatory
Jan 13, 2012 8:22 am
HNSky is awesome, and so is Han....
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han kleijn
han_kleijn
Jan 17, 2012 8:55 pm
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...
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tom
wa1vta01452
Jan 17, 2012 9:38 pm
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...
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hans-goran
limpan12000
Feb 13, 2012 4:38 pm
Sorry for this a bit of topic Need more members to Venus Watch: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/venus_watch/ It's a interesting Planet this year, easy to...
