... I did it with a dial up connection, it took about a week of evenings with the ISP dropping the connection every 2 hours. I used a download manager,...
Following on from Patrick's piece on the Rosetta flyby I have created an external catalogue definition file as follows: Copy the lines below into a text file...
... Or...kill several birds with one stone. Deepsky Astronomy Software, DAS (aka Deepsky 2000), is very reasonably priced, quite good, and CdC will use the...
Hi! I cannot get it to work. Am I missing something or is the procedure different for Linux? Just to be sure I downloaded a new version of CDC through the link...
Hi, This is a case missmatch in the file and directory name. The program search for all lowercase file name but the file at CDS are all uppercase. I download...
Why the GSC-ACT? Is there an advantage of it over the USNO SA2.0? The SA2.0 is larger but not greatly so, you need a CD or broadband access for both. Jim...
You don't want USNO-SA. It a catalog extracted from USNO-A, intended for use as an astrometric reference catalog by amatuer asteroid hunters back when hard...
I've noticed the when you use the "On-line resources" to get an image downloaded, it contains the information to allow CDC to precisely register the field of...
... for any location. ... participate to the ESA photo contest. ... Ciel\cat\externes\rosetta\rosetta.txt ... You must keep only the line full of number. ... ...
Hello, Mr. Chevalley. How, in CdC, I can look for individual objects of the catalogs that activate in the window "Catalogues and objects parameters", in their ...
Hi, CDC use the standard FITS WCS system. It is describe in detail here http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_wcs.html As this system take years to stabilize CDC...
Hello, The external catalog must be active, "1" in first column and the checkbox activated. Then from the Find menu check "External catalog" and give the...
Hello, Mr Chevalley. I test this procedure with, for exemple, Gliese catalogue and it doesn't work Well, I can see the Gliese's catalogue objects when I...
Hello, again, Mr. Chevalley. Apologize, please. Finally I have found the solution myself to the problem that I told to you before. Thank You very much, Sir,...
Patrick, Will the line drawing 'catalogs' produced in CdC ver. 2 work with version 3? I currently have v.3 alpha 0.0.6 and loaded a catalog with asterisms with...
It should work, the standard object outlines catalog is the same for V2 and V3. Be sure you set the minima and maxima field number in the catalog setting. Use...
Hi! Is there a way, with the linux install, to have labels for a magnitude range, for instance any stars between mag 7 and 9, but not those brighter or...
Patrick, Thanks. As you said the CatGen catalogs work well with v3. Still getting use to the interface of alpha 0.0.6. All the best. Ben ... for V2 ... your...
Hello all, On CdC v. 2.75 I'm displaying the bright stars in NGC 2244 surrounding the star HR 2382. The FOV is set to 1 degree and the limiting magnitude is...
Check which catalogs are active for the chart, and pay close attention to the field min/max values. If I have the Bright Star catalog and Tycho2 catalogs...
... John, Thanks for the tip - the magnitude labels are displaying. I was hoping the system would choose the most reliable mags with all the catalogs selected...
I rarely post here because it is a pain. Here it is, yet another gsc comment-question. I use a program called gcx for stellar photometry that works just fine...
Hi, This is a case mismatch problem with the directory and file name. The Strasbourg ftp give N0000/0001.GSC but CDC search for n0000/0001.gsc I don't notice...
Patrick, I don't understand your answer. My GSC files are all upper-case, straight from Strasbourg, and CdC has no trouble using them. I'm using Windows. Is...
... Linux file systems are case sensitive while Windows file systems are not. So, under Linux a file or directory mus be spelled exactly otherwise it will not...
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