I've recently downloaded HNSKY, and it is now THE program to use on my laptop attached to my scope, 10" F5 Dob. The Deep Sky Help file is superb, allowing me...
Hello Chris, Thanks for these friendly words. The annotate feature is a standard Winhelp feature. You can add only an annotate to existing Help subjects. I...
To all users using the UCAC2 star catalog in HNSKY, I just released an Tycho-2 based UCAC2 supplement which extends it up to declinations of + 90 degrees. See...
Small addition for the UCAC2 supplement or extension. The provided index file U2index.da had a small problem around the celestial north pole. This has now been...
After you download and convert the UCAC2 data files is there a certain order that needs to be followed when you burn them to cdroms, which files go onto which...
Hello Terry, The UCAC2 files required are Z001 to Z360 and index file u2index.da. The new files are files Z261 to Z360 and the new u2index.da. The order you...
Hi Han. Thanks for the great program. I've been using it for a few years now, and it keeps working well. I have a question about the world map supplement....
Hello Michael, Yes, see the end of this writing ! The world map is not special designed to work perfect. I just replaced the stars by the Earth contours. It...
Hi Han, Your link to the web site ended with a period and Internet Explorer can't figure out what to do. Link is actually http://www.hnsky.org/ucac2sup.htm and...
Thanks Han, Everything seems to work great, except for one thing: When you look at the stars and the world map, the stars seem to be moving from west to east....
Hello Fred, For the GSC_ACT you should use the u2index.da file (dated Monday, January 12, 2004 8:30:42 PM) intended for GSC_ACT only. Use not the u2index.da ...
Hello Michael, Oepsss, your right ! I have now swapped the map in version 2.2.2g2. If you in menu SCREEN flip the window horizontal, the map looks normal and ...
Hi Han, You are correct. I found that difference in the index files and got it corrected, thus the reason for the post earlier. For some reason, my computer...
Dear HNSKY user. Antoni has brought to my attention that there is a major bug in the supplement routine of version 2.2.2g. This was caused by the recent...
Hi, Han I'm wondering whether HNSKY uses directX as the interface to the display. 1) I persist in having the black cursor on a black sky problem described in...
Hello Richard, No HNSKY doesn't use directX. By purpose I use the standard (basic) Windows features and the HNSKY runs on everything including Win95. DirectX ...
Hi Han, Love this program! Have just had two nights camped out at a dark sky site, using HNSKY on my laptop, night mode behind a red plexiglass filter works...
Han, Thank you for the best answer you could give for directX! I can now continue to use your excellent program along with ACP, Maxim DL/CCD and FocusMax! Your...
Hello Richard, Just go mainmenu FILE, then SETTINGS or use shortcut CNTRL-E. Then click on the page COLORS. You will see all the color settings. Just click...
Han, As you would expect, when I connect HNSKY through an ASCOM hub to drive my telescope, the position of the telescope is indicated on the sky by (in my...
Hello Richard, As you indicated, that could be a problem in HNSKY. I also noted that the refreshing is not always prefect. The next weeks, I will have look...
Hi Han, Went out last night and tried to get the night mode to work. Windows XP left a bright bar at the top and the bottom. Top bar is the menu bar and...
Forgot to ask this in the last post. :-) Does HNSky support serial devices like Advanced Astro Master from Celestron? (Just got one and don't really like...
Hi all, I have been trying to use the Found Object Marker on HNS. I mark a deepsky object with a telrad marker and then save it. I find 2 problems here. ...
Hello Fred, About nightmode in XP. I can't test it since I run under good old windows NT. However next month I will have access to a XP driven computer and I...
Hello John, You correctly described the behaviour of HNSKY except for the second ... I tried, yes the marker(s) disappears but with the left button the marker...
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