Hello Everyone, I just stumbled over this group today while searching for software to drive an ETX-90EC. I have a few questions... hope you don't mind. ASCOM...
Hello James, As long ASCOM supports it, HNSKY will work with it. I have here the ASCOM version of a few months ago. It supports the LX200 with Austostar. I...
Han, I plan to give it a go later on this week. I will let you know if it is successful. Thanks again, James ... From: han kleijn [mailto:han_kleijn@...]...
Hi Han, I wonder if you might consider a change/option to HNSky... Since a lot of us navigate around HNSky in the dark sometimes it's hard to see the keyboard...
Hello Florian, I never had a look to that possibility but a quick try-out confirmed it is very easy to configure and it worked as desired. I also had a quick...
Maybe an option in settings to enable/disable CTRL would keep everyone happy. Not sure how much that would complicate things from a programming point of view? ...
I will go tonight to the astroclub and ask my colleagues for an opinion.
Regards,
Hari
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First reaction, switching between hot keys is not so easy. If so, a fully flexible approach is maybe more convenient. However even Microsoft does not provide...
Subject: HNSKY, Hallo northern sky planetarium program, version 2.2.0j Dear HNSKY user, HNSKY version 2.2.0j has been released. Since the last newsletter...
Hello Han
My Astroclub after three days of discussions agreed that it would be easier
to have direct access keys. I even had a discussion with the guy that...
Hello Hari and Florian, Next week or so, I will compile a test version with the hot keys as discussed. I will open a vote in Yahoo and see how it is accepted. ...
Hello to all, I released HNSKY version 2.20.k4 with adjustable short keys. In the language file hns_Lmai.txt attached you find most hot keys defined. Just...
This is great! One minor error is shortcut_reset and shortcut_cross_hair are both set to ctrl+R in the supplied hns_Lmai.txt file. Also, is it possible to add...
Hello Florian, Today I also implemented the hot keys for Zenith/North/South/East/West. Just download HNSKY version 2.2.0k5 and look inside the hns_Lmai.txt...
Hi Han It's a long time since I last put in a message, but I've been reading them all. One samll problem I have noticed in the last two releases of HNSKY is...
Hello everyone, I am quite new to this group, as well as to astronomical software. I have two questions: 1) I tried the GSC catalog successfully - afterwards I...
Hello Matteo, In the USNO-SA2, there many bright stars missing. It contains only a sub-set for astrometricl purposes. It is close to worthless. Even the large...
Hallo Peter, Yes your correct. It happens here also. This effects is caused by trying to plot an sky area close to 360 degrees around (azimuthal equidistant...
First of all thank you very much for help! I am trying to drive the telescope directly from the HNSKY program thru ASCOm interface - it is able to get the...
Hello Matteo, This should not happen. 1) If you select in Ascom menu the "telescope simulation", does that work ? 2) Can you control you Nextstar form the...
Hotkeys: Today I discovered using simple letters is causing problems. For example if you define the letter E for the settings menu. If you open the search...
Yep, I've noticed this when using the search mode. I set o for zooming out, but when I entered a query for the Moon. Something else happened. perhaps it would...
You're right! I set pretty much everything to single keystrokes so i can't seach for hardly anything now. ;-) On the other hand, i rarely use the search...
Hi Han, here they comes the answers to your question 1) Telescope simulation works nice, even though, upon screen update a yellow cross remains on the old...
Hello Han, I searched for these two stars Alcor and Mizar (that supposed to be in the Ursa Major constellation inbetween Alioth and Alkaid ) and could not find...
Hello Hari, I did find them in a supplement named "hns_star.sup", Common-named stars supplement file for HNSKY. Compiled by Bill Anderson. Alcor 4.0 13:25...
Hello Matteo, That the simulation works fine is a good thing. At this moment, I have no real idea what causes the problem. Maybe the ASCOM driver maybe HNSKY....
Hello Florian, I have "giving up" introducing hot keys using single letters. You can use them with the effect mentioned. However I would recommend to use...
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