For your information. Read the following story from www.spaceweather. .com. Kaguya crashes into the moon on June 10th, at around 1830 UT (or 0000 IST June 11)....
Nice to hear from you Chris. For now my "levels" function seems to be working...I'm not sure why it wasn't working earlier. I am however stumped by how to...
Click on the STAR icon. Click on the Display Tab (if not already selected). In the display box, half way down the page, make your selection: Symbols or...
... No, that's not entirely correct. When you do a "Save Defaults" it's not the current setting, but the level range that gets "saved". In order never to have...
Thanks Chris. I confess that setting bitmap from 0 to 0 is a possibility that would have taken me an eon or two to figure out myself. A "make the bitmap...
Hi colleagues the connection with my LX200GPS through COM-port 5 and SkyMap Pro 10 works good. Unfortunately I cannot connect the Meade software Envisage etc....
Thomas I don't think you can. From what I understand Netscope allows you 'share' the COM port of the scope to other programs, but it only works with other ...
What method does SkyMap use to compute the contacts, start of totality, and maximum eclipse for a total solar eclipse? How good are its predictions? I plan to...
... Does the elevation above sea level matter in computing the circumstances? I imagine it should, but changing the elevation in SkyMap does not have seem to...
... Yes, the user's elevation is used when computing local circumstances but, unless the elevation is extreme, the effect will be extremely small. Regards, ...
Hi, I found the arp.zip file on the homesite of SkyMap Pro. Can there 2 files used somehow to present the Arp Galaxies always on the screen ? After unzipping...
... You have to use the "DataPrep" tool (in the "SkyMap/Tools" submenu of the Windows "Start" menu) to "compile" these file into an "arp.sdc" file. This can...
Hi Chris, Thanks a lot :-) Managed to get the Arp Galaxies into my desktop :-) If anyone is interested I uploaded the arp.sdc file into the files section. It...
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Comet W3 Cristensen is currenly the brightest comet in the sky at magnitude 8.6. I imaged and observed it last night. My sky brightness was 18.7 magnitudes/...
I'd like to thank Chris for producing software that is great for predicting circumstances of astronomical events. It was certainly a big help in the last...
Sorry the text got messed up. Let me try again. Latitude: 30° 42' 24.8" N Longitude: 121° 20' 17.1" E Elevation: 6 m Time: 2009 Jul 22 09:35:51 PA of...
... Could the difference have been due to the value of DeltaT? In SkyMap, under Help > Map Status, the value of DeltaT is given as +76.2. I think this is way...
... Is there a way to change the value of DeltaT that SkyMap uses? Apparently the formula used by SkyMap for extrapolating it gives a value that is way off....
... Thanks, it works. It's just a little clumsy. You see, once we got the GPS reading I immediately added the place to the locations.dat file under "China:...
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