Geoff, thanks for your concern. At work I still cannot connect, getting the "Error: 500" message. The problem is not Zone Alarm in my situation, the check...
Hi Dick, Have you changed the EXTRES.INI file proxy to that of your work proxy? It's the only thing I can think of seeng your firewall is enabled. Here's the...
Geoff, I was able to change the proxies below to those used by my company, and that did the trick. Thanks for your help and suggestions. Dick ... work proxy ...
... Hi Dick. Anytime! I'm so glad it worked ok for you. I must admit I was stymied with the same problem not so long ago. Work had removed one of the proxy...
Hallo group, I connect my C8 via CDC, Boxdörfer MTS3 and LX200 protocol. Now I want to connect an external focus driver via RS232. Is there anybody who can...
I am really enjoying getting to know this program (and thus our Universe) better! I am brand new to astronomy, so I hope these are not too basic. 1) Why would...
... When looking through a scope, after the light bounces off various mirrors and exits the scope at some arbitrary angle (when using a diagonal, or in a...
Hello all, I wanted to try to use Skycharts to drive my scope with an LX200 emulator, but Skychart is not connecting to the COM port. I installed the latest...
Nicola, One thing you might try is to setup and run CdC using the ASCOM telescope simulator. In the Telescope Menu, select ASCOM. When the ASCOM Telescope...
... below ... Regarding this, I am still not sure what is happening. Here are my steps: 1) Set to Show all sky and put South at the bottom (so all looks ok...
... Just before this, did the chart have a narrower view? And where was it centered? As I said before, when you click Show all Sky, whatever was centered in...
Hallo Patrick, ... I get in Win89SE the same error after a system crash and a new install. ... planet view. The planet image is then rendered to a bitmap that...
Hallo Patrick, ... I get in Win89SE the same error after a system crash and a new install. The error is in CDC and VirtualMoon. ... planet view. The planet...
Now I get it!!! I didn't understand how to interpret the Polar projection view. Thank you very much, John. Also, thanks for the sites to check out. Now if...
I have a backyard which is surrounded by trees which I can't chop down owing to Council restrictions. I subsequently have just a small amount of visible sky....
On the current "http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance/" website it shows a picture with caption "Comet Machholz was glowing at about magnitude 3.8...
... Is your time set correctly? If I set the date/time to January 7, I have the comet pretty close to M 45, even without setting the site or the time...
I found the problem. I selected "141P/Machholz" instead of "C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)" from the catalog. The latter is, in fact, near M45. Thanks for your help! ...
I get a "Read Bytes: 110217 / Error: 404 Not Found" when I try to update this from http://cfa- www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2005/Soft06Bright.txt + ...
I have been getting the same message. Does anyone know what the problem may be? Harry Colvin hcolvin1@... 10" LX200 GPS v1.6b MX916 CCD camera AstoArt...
Well, 404 is 404, after all. If you copy the URL to a browser, and grope about a bit, you'll see that the directory for ..../2005/ is "not found," because...
Hallo Patrick, ... I get in Win89SE the same error after a system crash and a new install. The error is in CDC and VirtualMoon. ... trying ... driver ... I...
Hallo Patrick, ... I get in Win89SE the same error after a system crash and a new install. The error is in CDC and VirtualMoon. ... trying ... driver ... I...
When you click to download new asteroid elements, I believe the line showing http://cfa- www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2005/Soft06Bright.txt + ...
Hi, I have a very basic problem. I'm trying to print a skymap for tonight's ASV public viewing night for Tsunami victims but for some reason I can't get the...
... Also, make ... Hi Rod, Yes, you were right. I had the box ticked but the colour was white. All ok now, changed it to black. Many thanks! --Geoff...