~ =74.5s 2009/5/10 Geoff Dudley <dudley.geoff@...> ... -- With best regards, Oleg Maliy Zaporozhye Astronomical Club "Altair" [Non-text portions of this...
Oleg Maliy
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May 10, 2009 9:58 am
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Oh! :( I have written DT-UT. *Terrestrial Time (TT)* : The timescale used for apparent geocentric ephemerides whose unit of time is the SI...
Oleg Maliy
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May 10, 2009 1:18 pm
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I have plenty of trees from my site, and I set up a local horizon to reproduce them. The program is ignoring "reverses" in azimuth - in other words, where the...
The custom horizon feature (in v2.76, at least) is pretty basic and assumes that all obstructions are convex as seen from above. So that puts some limitations...
How can I eliminate a recurrent message "supply correct path for Deepsky 2000 base directory"? I don't know how to either supply that information nor...
If you DO NOT have Deepsky installed, you must go into the catalog setup (stars tab) and TURN OFF (uncheck) "Deepsky Base" (and the Hubble GSC and Super Tycho...
Thank you for the help. I did have Deepsky installed, and with a little trial and error supplied a correct path and the annoying message is gone. It worked! ...
I want to make a field of view indicator so I can use my Canon 40D (on a tripod, not through a scope) for astrophotgraphy. i want to be able to show the...
Which part aren't you sure about Harry? Determining the field of view or how to enter that into CdC? Let us know which version you're using, please. Sander...
Hi Harry, the official way to do step 1 is to plate solve. To be honest that's too involved to explain here. You may want to google for it. A poor man's plate...
Or take a picture of the Moon. This is approx 0.5 degrees across which gives you the scaling factor you need. ________________________________ From:...
I disagree! The poor-man approach to plate solving is uploading your picture to flickr and submit it to the astrometry.net group, it will be solved like this: ...
If you trust the focal length of the optics (and this is just a camera lens, so it should be accurate), then it's easier to just calculate the FOV numbers...
Thanks for that information! CdC can display FITS images with location, direction and scale information embedded in them. This works fine with Elbrus (also...
When you have an account with astrometry.net you can upload fits images and get the image back with the proper header information. Of course colour DSLR images...
I have made a new catalog of stars that is based on the BSC-catlog but with updated data and inclusion of info of both double stars and variable stars. The...
Hello all, I have recently downloaded V2.76 plus the repair after struggling with one of the commercial programs for several years (and several dollars). I...
Hi Griff, don't forget to try the 3.0 version when you get a chance. Get it at http://www.ap-i.net . It uses the same catalog format so you don't have to...
To All, Has anyone used CdC to control an equatorially mounted Cassegrain powered by Animatics SmartMotors via ASCOM drivers? Amateur Astronomers, Inc....
Hi Ray, sounds like you have quite a project on your hands :) I recommend you try to develop an ASCOM interface for your scope so you are not bound to just...
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone out there who is successfully connecting to their scopes using CdC ASCOM drivers through a BT device. Specifically, which...
... Hi Steve, I control my Nexstar 11 GPS using the AIRcable Serial 3, CDC 3X and ASCOM. This setup works flawlessly for me even when I use ASCOM's POTH and...
... Those are Open Clusters. Cr = Collinder Mel = Melotte They are usually associated with a number. For example Cr 399 is the Coat Hanger cluster. Hope that...
Yep, it's been a whole year again and time for the annual update to the PGC/LEDA galaxy catalog for CDC. This year we have a whopping 1,708,809 galaxies in the...
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