Howdy SMO users; I know this makes for a long message, but there is method in my madness. I am going to add a sample of my notes from Canis Major in ASCII...
... to move ... 'upgrade' :) ... Chris, I'd like to jump in here. Back when I started with SMP5, no database features yet existed, so I purchased the excellent...
... I am not quite sure, what I am talking about here, since I only have Skymap v 6 :) But I suppose v. 9 has a tool to convert the old MDB databses to the new...
henrik@...
May 1, 2004 5:49 pm
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First and foremost, I want to say that having this kind of support is one of the reasons that I am seriously considering SMP as the winner in my planetarium...
David I'm not sure about SMP, but I know one is under development (now in testing) by someone on the ASCOM group. The ASCOM developers Yahoo group is...
I tested the ASCOM driver with Skymap Pro 10.0 last weekend and it seemed to work fine including slew. I did have one question for Chris Marriott regarding the...
I expect Chris will want to reply to this officially when he's back online. My understanding is that SMP currently sends epoch of the day coords, so the ...
Chris Chris the new driver has been written to work with the ServoCat Goto system that uses an AgroNavis handset as the basis for it's control system. I ...
Hi, I notice in SkyMap Pro 10 that although eplison1 lyra resolves to two stars, epsilon2 lyra doesn't. Is that because the companion of epsilon2 lyra is...
Bryan Putnam
bputnam@...
May 10, 2004 7:48 pm
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It will be because it is not listed in the Tycho catalogue, it is definately not anywhere near as faint as Mag 15! Being (without actually checking) nearer to...
Mark, Finally having some time, I've been perfecting techniques lately. In particular, I've been using the latest ASCOM 3.0 update, Beta 2 Install of the...
Chris, Skymap 10.0.5. When I generate a Jupiter Events list, the date/time entries are blue, even in night mode. Because of the brightness of my laptop ...
Chris, I also use a red filter in night mode and have the same problem. I would support Paul's suggestion of changing the blue buttons and text to another...
Paul I can't help with the buttons - that has been raised before. But the Blue list entries are controlled by the colour setting in your default web browser....
Mark, Since I've posted more detail on the ASCOM list, lets just move any further discussion to that group. I justed posted a message there with more detail of...
Is it possible (or how do you) plot the track of an artificial satellite like ISS on the main Sky Map given data provided by NORAD? So far I can only find the...
Don Thanks for this report, with Bob Dennys help I've found the problem. I'll release version 1.2.1 of the SMP driver that will fix this issue. For those that...
Hi everbody, today I noticed some strange behavior of SMP 10 concerning the display of my local time an UTC. I live in Germany and the timezone of my WinXP Pro...
Hi Chris, I've recently downloaded the list of distant asteroids orbital elements from: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Distant/Soft01Distant.txt ...
Antonio
vega.orio@...
May 14, 2004 5:38 pm
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Hello All, I am using SkyMap Pro 6 on a Amilo 2.4 gig laptop. I have tried everything I can think of to get Skymap to stay in RA mode and stay there....
In the SkyMap Pro 10, the default star bitmaps appear very gigantic and are exaggerating. I modified the default images and reduce them to 50% their original...
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