Hello Colin, I have been trying to send a message to your support e-mail listed in the AstroGPS readme, but it keeps getting rejected. Apologies to all for...
Hi Tom. Do you work as a software test? You've managed to find three bugs in one go! The support e-mail wasn't working because I had a spam problem - so I...
Hi all. Just a quick note to let you all know that I've fixed this problem. The program now works perfectly for Windows 98 First Edition. Regards Colin Dawson...
Apologies if this has been asked already but what is the best way to temporarily 'add' this object so I know where it is in the sky? Is it already in an...
Astorb.dat contains it (downloadable from the lowell observatory site). Its a 20Mb download and takes an absolute AGE for Skymap to digest when you point it at...
Hi Chris, I'm just getting active in the hobby again after a semi-active period of a couple of years (4 actually) following the birth of my son. I was entering...
If you save a map at the tima and date you require then it will default to that time when you log an entry, as long as that is the active map. Regards KG. ... ...
I should have added that the methos I described is useful if you have multiple entries as each new log retains the time (I find that having an observing time...
Chris, A group of us are working on the Lunar Observing Club from the Astro Leagye. Could a feature be added that shows the current age of the moon? Maybe in...
Does anyone know of a quick way to get the time to jump forward to see what the sky looks like tonight. For example whenever I start prog it always defaults to...
I just highlight the hour section and then enter the time I usually am out observing and I do the same thing with the minutes. A bit faster then clicking on...
Hi John, Use CTRL + T to bring up the time dialog, and enter 22 in the hour field. There is also a button there that will take you to midnight. Hope this...
... see ... it ... I tend to go through the Planning, Hours of Darkness menus. Highlight the date and then Set time gives you the view at the onset of true ...
Hello Colin, I can confirm that your fix works. Thanks for the quick response. Sorry for the slow confirmation. Take care, -Tom ... anything at ... Behalf Of ...
Hi. I'm glad it's working properly now. I do so hate shoddy second rate software. It's good that there's none to be found in this group :-) Regards Colin...
Out of my own interest I have knocked up a script that will launch SMPro and set the map time to a desired value. You can download the utility from my...
After much testing by Paul Clark (thanks Paul), I finally have the SkyMap launcher working to set the map time to the onset of darkness with versions 10 & 11....
Thanks Chris, I just worry about how robust it is, the content of HTML (Internet Explorer) panes within dialogs is a b*99er to access from an exeternal...
NGC 7380 in Cepheus is identified as an open cluster in SkyMap Pro - in fact it a rather good emission nebula as well. I recently took an Hydrogen Alpha image...
NGC 7380 is the open cluster, Sharpless 142 is the designation for the nebula. The NGC 7380 complex includes the above , a large molecular cloud designated...
I have SkyMapPro on a laptop PC, but this PC is having a problem. I'm thinking of buying 1. a Mac laptop and 2. Virtual PC + some form of Windows for it....
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Thank you for your message We have never tested SkyMap (or any other program) on a MAC with a windows emulator, so can't answer your question, I'm afraid. It...
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