Hi, This is just my personal opinion, but I think we should wait until an official declaration from the IAU re-classifying 2003UB313 as a planet until we call...
Hi, this is also my humble opinion, but I think that the last planet is Neptune, and Pluto, 2003UB313 and so on are TransNeptunian Objects, or KBO symply,...
Hello, OK, I give up. I guess I haven't been seeing enough threads. What does KBO stand for? Don't tell anyone I'm a Planetary Society member. Uninformed, Bill...
Bill Gucfa
bgucfa@...
Aug 3, 2005 6:37 pm
10389
Bill - Kuiper Belt Object, I believe... Equally uninformed, but willing to guess, - Steve Steve Knowles marketingAcumen www.MarketingAcumen.com ... From:...
Yes, Kuiper Belt Objects, Excuse me... Jaime ... From: Jaime F. Gimeno To: Lista SkyMap Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:43 AM Subject: [skymap] TNO objects ...
Bill, Here is something I prepared for my daughter's school: The Kuiper Belt contains the ancient remains of the Solar System which lie 35 to 1000 Astronomical...
Julian and Jaime, Thanks for clearing up the acronym KBO for me. I've always known of the Kuiper Belt but wasn't used to seeing Kuiper objects referred to as...
Bill Gucfa
bgucfa@...
Aug 4, 2005 3:51 pm
10393
Steve, Thanks. After a zillion years as an amateur astronomer, I thought I knew everything! Glad I'm not alone. Bill ... From: skymap@yahoogroups.com...
Bill Gucfa
bgucfa@...
Aug 4, 2005 4:27 pm
10394
Now I'm in the dark. What do TNO and STS stand for? P.D.Ide [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Kuiper Belt Object ... From: skymap@yahoogroups.com [mailto:skymap@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gucfa Sent: 03 August 2005 19:37 To:...
Arthur Rees
arthur@...
Aug 4, 2005 6:56 pm
10396
P.D., Now I'm in tune. TNO= Trans Neptunian Orbit (as in Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit at times) and STS= The space shuttle is referred to as STS-114 or Space...
Bill Gucfa
bgucfa@...
Aug 4, 2005 6:57 pm
10397
Back in late June, we announced our new free ACP Planner™. In case you haven't yet looked at Planner, we've just produced a couple of Planner videos. These...
And if it turns out to be a planet, my friend suggests calling it "Goofy" due to its large orbital inclination. Plus, it goes well with "pluto". ... an ... ...
Any idea why all the stars would suddenly show up as little images of Windows buttons instead of the beautiful point images they used to be?? I tried...
Hi Pat, not sure what you mean by "Buttons" but if you go to the stars dialogue box (click on the star symbol on the right hand toolbar) you can select to have...
Thank you, Kim and Bryan! Changing the stars dialogue to always display "Symbols" worked!! :-) I do keep my Windows XP updated, so maybe that's the problem,...
I run Win XP and have all the updates but I've never had that problem. Still using V10 In a message dated 06-Aug-05 1:18:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, ...
Dear guys, I'd like to modify some file in the SM10, so that I can include my own locations and select them from the menu. Can anybody tell me which one is the...
I am using Skymap 11, but I believe you are looking for the location.dat file, which on my system is: C:Program Files\Skymap Pro 11\Data I use wordpad to edit...
Thank you very much, David!, Everything ok! Jaime ... From: David To: skymap@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:38 AM Subject: RE: [skymap] How...
Hi, I don't have a copy of version 10, but in version 11, the file you need is location.dat, which is located in Program Files/Skymap Pro 11/Data Regards Nick...
Hi folks, i'm new on this list and i'm sure that i missed some interesting topics :-) does anyone know how to implement the USNO B1 catalogue in SkyMap Pro 10?...
Andreas G. Sperber
as@...
Aug 9, 2005 9:13 am
10409
Hi I too would like to know the answer to this one. Can't recall seeing
this topic/request before.
Also - how does one get the USNO B1 catalogue? The last I...
Ian.r.spink@...
Aug 9, 2005 12:00 pm
10410
Hi Ian, this catalogue is really hard to get - because of its size of 89 gigabytes. you must send them a harddisc (100 gig or bigger). Any questions should be...
Andreas G. Sperber
as@...
Aug 9, 2005 12:44 pm
10411
SkyMap Pro 10 is not x64 compatable. I assume it uses a 16 bit installer and x64 requires a 32 or 64 bit installer. Is verion 11 x64 compatible?...
I think I've answered my question. I tried installing the demo version and it would not install and gave the message: "... is for a machine type orther than...
Hi, The installer might not work, but if you create a directory on yor hard drive & copy the contents of the CD into that directory, you should be able to run...
Hi Ian and Andreas, see message 10291 and follow ups (I started that thread two months ago in this group). In short: The USNO-B1 catalogue is only available...
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