Hi, I would like to get information about star distance from Earth in light years. I could saw this information when I double clicked on star object. I don't...
Hi, You must use the Hipparcos catalog to get information about the star distance. Activate this catalog instead of BSC and Sky2000 for the wide field. Use the...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 1, 2003 9:30 pm
1329
This packages replace two dll file : series96.dll and satxy.dll They contain all the necessary data and no other file is require. The descriptive text in cat\...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 1, 2003 9:31 pm
1330
Thank you, Patrick; but... Do you mean that the High Precision Satellite file, cdcsathi, replaces the other two? Should I not have all three installed? I did...
After hearing about all the wonderful things Cartes du Ciel is supposed to do, I was eager to try it. However, I can't get it to do much. When starting, I can...
Pete, In the sample screen your fov. is less than 2 degrees. Try a larger Fov, say 90 degrees. Check what catalogs are active. "Preferences" - ... Catalog"...
... larger ... Well, I found that menu bar, on the right. Clicked on 90 deg. No change. Doesn't even change the size of the red bullseye (presumably an...
Hello, Probably the program configuration is incomplete because of the first crash. Run "Repair Installation" again but use the option 3 "Reset all default...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 2, 2003 3:51 pm
1335
Hi, The Planetary Satellites install file "cdcsatxy.exe" and the Planetary Satellites High Precision Satellite install file "cdcsathi.exe" contain both a file...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 2, 2003 4:13 pm
1336
In a recent post it was said the Hipparcos catalog has the distance of stars in light years. Do any of the DSO catalogs have the distance of DSOs? Peter...
Did as you suggested. Not only do I still get the message "Exception EOSError in module PLANETRENDER.DLL at 0000B48A" but now I also get "Floating point ...
Never mind my previous, I'm making some progress. I went to the repair menu, 6, no openGL, ran program, LET IT USE THE DEFAULT LOCATION, (Geneva, CH???) and...
The Hipparcos catalog do not contain directly the distance value but the annual parallax. The program convert this value to light year for convenience. This is...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 2, 2003 5:39 pm
1340
Can you try to uninstall, reinstall, do not run the program now, go the installation directory, delete the file planetrender.dll, run the program. Patrick...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 2, 2003 5:42 pm
1341
Hi, Patrick. I didn't need to do that. itworks it works It Works IT WORKS!!!! Boy, is this neat! (I suppose there are more attractive planet renderings if that...
OK, please ignore my last message. Maybe one of the entry box is not secure enough again wrong typing, I will check that. Patrick...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 2, 2003 5:50 pm
1343
So, Patrick, *Thanks* for the help and, please, what is the exact "precision" for the non-precision planets (3000BC-3000AD); i.e., how precise are the...
Is there any way to make the program display the satellite track on a chart below about 9th Mag? I've set the "limiting mag" box to 99 but it only shows the...
I've been exploring the Gliese Catalog the past few days (all by itself) and wonder about parts of the description bar (2-line format, top of screen). I...
I've used Carte Du Ciel 2.75 for some time (love it!), but I just received RealSky and can not get the table of images to come up for any section of sky. I've...
This calculation use the library plan404 by Steve Moshier. I do some comparision with Series96 and the difference is always less than one arcsecond for the...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 3, 2003 9:08 pm
1348
I don't have this problem. Do you check the limiting magnitude for the chart in the artificial satellite page ? Also if the sat. is an Iridium be sure to...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 3, 2003 9:13 pm
1349
The Gliese catalog use the old external catalog format, this is good but the number of field to display is limited. Now you can build a catalog from the same...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 3, 2003 9:22 pm
1350
I also use the Realsky with a Windows 2000 machine without problem. Do you check "Select plate from list" in the option ? This let you check the Auxilary file...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Mar 3, 2003 9:45 pm
1351
Thanks Patrick, I did select "select plate from list" This is what I get out of Debug.dat but I don't get any table poping up. GETIMAGE: compiled May 8 2002...
Again, Patrick, thank you (Merci!)!! Quite close enough for my needs... ... FarShore Publications http://www.angelfire.com/oh/1aps9 Alexander M Zoltai ...
"Do you check the limiting magnitude for the chart in the artificial satellite page ?" I haven't used the "for this chart only" option; I let the program find...
Got it. The system responded after I checked BOTH RealSky North and South. I just had North selected in the previous attempts. Thanks MAB ... poping ... the ...
Hello sean, I have the same problem (labels stay only temporarily) - and I´m also seeking a solution. I am running Windows 98SE. I´ve seen it running in...
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