I'd like to wish everyone a very happy new year for 2003. Only one upload this morning - the usual set of updated comet orbital elements, current for 1st Jan...
Hello group, HAPPY NEW YEAR! ... In line with these suggestions, I would like to be able to configure/choose the options that appear in the right-click menu....
Hello group, On the old subject about the time step/animation feature: What about a edit field in the tool bar (similar to the quick search), but with a very...
In a message dated 12/30/2002 7:08:34 AM Central Standard Time, ... Fifty-one clicks will do it all (version 8.0) Looking up, Alan [Non-text portions of this...
Chris, A lot of times many of us observe in dark, remote sites with no facilities. Do you think you might also add some toilet and wash basin features to SMP? ...
Hello Friends, First of all a Happy New Year by me too. I agree with suggestions of Ben and i would like have inserted in the Deep
Sky Object List the possible...
All, First let me wish all of you a Happy New Year and may your skies be Dark & Clear. I'm in the process of creating a PDF file of the v9 help file. The first...
Hi Chris, If you look at the ESO VLT picture of Uranus taken recently (20 Dec 2002 - about 23:00 UT) and compare it with Skymap Pro 8's predicition of Uranus...
... From: <workshop60@...> To: <skymap@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:19 PM Subject: [skymap] tip of the day ... It's a text file...
I can't seem to get the DSS support files to install. When I run DSS.EXE the installation hangs after it asks me for the skymap pro 5 directory. I can change...
... Hi Keith, The photograph was taken, according to the press release, at 0300 UT on 19th Nov 2002 (20th December is the date of the press release, not the...
... Hello Chris.. I wouldn't look too hard for a bug in Skymap - Guide 8 shows the identical relative geometry of the moons of Uranus for that date/time. Even...
Hi Group, I'm looking for an animation of a cut-away view of the Sun's Convection zone. I saw this animation on a U.S. government agency sponsored website...
Hi Chris, Sorry that I got the wrong time, but the satellites did match quite well! Please do get back to us with Bill Gray's comments. I don't think too many...
Hi, all! Although I've been using this wonderful program for several years, I just recently found this group...what a great resource! As for my suggestion, I...
Hi Chris. I think it's a false alarm, and Skymap and the algorithm are correct. The date of the exposure appears to have been incorrect. I've done some...
Oops, sorry. Cancel that. I was lazy reading Keith's original email that stated the correct date was already known, and forgot to flip it. I take it back...
Chris, I'm running smp9 on win98. It's a clean install, no office (no access or jet engine). Every time I try to convert the dbase, the 'overwrite' warning...
In a message dated 1/2/2003 3:58:03 PM Central Standard Time, ... I understand what your request is but you do realize you can ask the scope to slew to any...
I am a fairlly new user of this program and newish to astronomy. Thanks to Chris for this great program. What I would like to see is a search engine with fuzzy...
Hello Kevin, ... Yes, if I recall correctly you do, because the conversion program has to read to old data base with the Jet Engine. After the conversion you...
... False alarm - SkyMap (and Guide) does show the correct positions! I was matching SkyMap's image to the photograph by flipping the image vertically, which...
... access ... the 'overwrite' ... the ... Hi Kevin, The database conversion tool has to read the SMP8 Access-format database, and hence needs to have JET...
Chris despite my disappointment in the logging code, there is one thing I wanted to make sure I told you. There appears to be few people who use SMP (8 for now...
... That is, ... never ... for this ... Cassiopeia. ... The "quick search" box on the toolbar is pretty "general" - you can type more or less anything into it,...
... thing I ... under the ... out. SMP has ... has ... charts ... changed ... for me. Thank you for the kind words, Jeff - I truly appreciate it. I'm a little...