greetings I've just started to use hnsky and have downloaded images from http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/pskcall at 2000 by 2000 pixels. Is there any way...
Hello Han, My database files were working fine on WinME until I changed one of them. I was having trouble remembering the Helix Nebula was NGC7293 so I poked...
Hello Gary and Florian, Many wordprocessors try to change format of unknown files using ASCII or TXT format to there format .DOC or something else. So the...
Hello Talquence, All images if in the FITS format, will be displayed by HNSKY. The wide is limited to 8192 bytes so 4096 pixel for a 16 bit or 2 bytes a pixel...
Hello Enrique, Just enter the star number with SAO. For example if you search for 308 you will find Polaris since it is SAO308. Han ... -- Please note the...
Hello Han and Florian, Yes, I did use Notepad to alter the "Deepsky level 3.hnd" file since it is a plain txt file. This error popup shows on WinME but does...
Greetings Han I realize just how slow a fits file of over 20 Megabyts is but when you show a person a really fin image on your moniter it's usually pretty easy...
Hello Gary, Maybe Notepad added some strange characters. Your could try to load it in an other editor/ word processor and save it again as pure TXT. I normally...
This is my first time on this forum and first of all I want to say what a magnificent program this is, and all the more so because it is free! For a long time...
... Hi Shelley, The current comet elements from this link work with HNSky... http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft06Cmt.txt You can copy/paste...
An update: I kept the old Comet Machholz data but added a new line and called it Machholz2 using the cut and paste just for that comet. Interesting now that I...
I will try the cut and paste tomorrow... FYI - I may need instructions... Can this type of thing be done with Asteroids??? I would like to keep ALL the...
Hmmmm.. I wonder what else can be kept up to date in HNSKY in this manner.. And since I haven't said this for a while... HNSKY is the greatest! I use it with...
Both of my optional Suplements , Meade_LX and M_Way, do not work... How do I make the supplements work.. (I have all of them).. Drop down menu 2 and 3 show up...
Yeah! I have 13 working supplements... And the comets and asteroids display, so I just need to know how to edit those two files.. I shall now shut the hell...
I just looked at both of these files and the format is entirely different... I want the first 2000 asteroids plus some others.. Just easier to go for all of...
... Hm, odd. I just double checked my comet file and the format is the same at the one from the url i posted before. For example here is the line for comet...
Well now that I have defraged the computer, the comet files DO match, so that will be easy... And I seem to have 10,000 asteroids already, so maybe I have...
Fellow Astronomers... Just a quick note hello, and how much I enjoy using the program. I highly recommened it to my Chicago Astronomer membership, as it's ...
... Hi Joe, Welcome to the list. I love HNSky. Even though i have other commercial programs HNSky is by far the most used astro program i have. -Florian...
Everyone / Florian I downloaded the MPCORB files, converted them, etc.. Problem is I only want to use it when an Asteroid I wish to see is not in the standard...
... Hi John, Go to this url... http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Unusual/Soft06Unusual.txt Find the line for asteroid 2004 MN4 (it's near the bottom)...
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