... I got mine a few weeks ago on Astromart. They appear there somewhat regularly. Ebay is a longer shot. Going price is in the mid-$100 range. Mine is the...
Hi, Yes, I have very few free time at the moment and email are cumulating in my mailbox. I fear to not be able to respond to all. I really appreciate if you...
... drive ... I don't have the DSS images to test it on but it looks like to me all you need to is bring up Preferences > Catalog and Object Parameters > ...
Hi all, you may think this question is a bit daft ! Is there a simple method of changing back to cdc v2.75 ? This is why I ask :- I have had 2.75 for a long...
... You can copy all the files to a hard drive and give the path to CDC in place of "CD drive" in the "Images" setting. But this waste a lot of space because...
Hi, Are you sure of your coordinates setting in CDC ? I doubt this change something but if you want to try with 2.75 you can get an old update file here: ...
Hi Patrick, thanks for your reply and the link. Well the good news is that I got a good agreement tonight with Cosmos2082rocket just before midnight as it...
Hello, I just installed 3.0.0.8 after having used 2.76 for a while. I'm really impressed with the program and the alpha version seems quite stable already. ...
Hi Folks We have been developing a program called NTC [Network Telescope Control] for nearly two years now. We have now created a Cartes du Ciel plug-in that ...
It appears to me that V3 responds a lot slower to zoom/unzoom/move commands than 2.x did. I can't really check it right now as it appears that you can't have...
Hi, At the moment I not implement the "long" label name option. I don't really like the way it display in 2.76. In 3.0.0.8 the search button in the same as...
You can have V2 and V3 at the same time but on the same directory. Install first the V2 then the V3 at the same place. There is many difference between the two...
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I've put a new version - 1.2 - of Ascom.tid in the files area, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/files/fix/Ascom.zip This will report any error...
Hi All, When I selected the magnification box in the label selection of the preference section. It displays the name of the object but the mag reads "0.00"...
Patrick, thanks for the answer. Now at least I know I'm not overlooking something obvious :-) I hope you'll add the name back again at some point as for ...
Patrick, I will re-install both v2 and v3 so I can run them at the same time. I have turned of the image library, it made it somewhat smaller. Still, when I...
Is it me or is the scroll wheel zoom function reversed? I keep zooming in when I intend to zoom out. If you like I can find some examples of software that work...
I assume you're referring to "magnitude", not "magnification". It sounds like the NGC2000 catalog doesn't have magnitudes listed. The SAC catalog does. -John ...
But I also know some software that do the same way as CdC, Paint Shop Pro for example. For me this is more logical as rolling the wheel up your finger approch ...
You are right :-) I also use PSP and just saw that it zooms the same way as both versions of CdC. Not sure why it seemed so un-intuitive in CdC 3. Better leave...
Patrick, here are my config files. I tried to get some more catalogs online but I appeat to have far more catalogs than CdC3 knows what to do with. That's ok, ...
Hi, In the initial V3 alpha version a 3 chart configuration had been shown. I set up the screen in V3.alpha 0.0.8 such that I had a telrad chart, a finder ...
All, As I become more familiar with the sky I'm practicing my star hopping instead of relying on the goto feature of my scope. It appeared to me that it would...