Pardon me for what I am sure is a stupid question. I have CE 2.75. I used 'catgen' to generate a small catalog, and am hav- ing trouble getting the members of...
PS: Oops! By 'CE 2.75', I mean 'Cartes du Ciel 2.75'. Also, one other thing to note: all of the members of this catalog are 8- by-8 degree squares, and I have...
I just upgraded to the latest CDC. On the old version I was using if I removed the "local horizon" option I would see the stars, objects, etc. that were below...
Just interested as a new subscriber,when I can expect to actually see some posts about Carte du Ciel,I mean orgies etc maybe interesting topics but not exactly...
In a message dated 8/6/03 4:12:18 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Well, I expect that'll get corrected when Patrick returns from vacation. The porno-spammers. As...
Patrick put the group on moderated status a few weeks back to block spammers, but I guess he switched back to unmoderated status when he went on vacation. I've...
You probably heard right. In e.g. Danmark, 5 weeks of paid vacation are mandatory. AFAIK this is the same all over Skandinavien and e.g. France. I - like app....
John Ståhle
johnstaahle@...
Aug 7, 2003 10:17 am
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... to send out >another invitation to see who wants to come to this one. Yee ha I am there! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi, all. I too have wondered whether this forum was being gradually abandoned to spammers: it's good to hear that our moderator is just on vacation. On another...
1. The little bugger: In Preferences -> Eyepieces -> CCD Field the Tabulator key is moving vertically through the colomns and not, as one would normally...
John Ståhle
johnstaahle@...
Aug 8, 2003 6:08 pm
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Could you perhaps upload the file into the group's file area then it would be available for anyone to look at and hopefully help you. Peter...
Lew, It could be a number of things why the catalog won't display. Peter's suggestion of uploading it to the list will give us an opportunity to diagnose it....
In a similar vein... When I use "track scope position", it puts the scope position at the center of the field, and puts any selected EP circles/CCD fields...
Hello, Reguarding the SSK2000. I have ver 2.05 and running the lx200 protocall works great. However I see theres a SSK 2000 connection within the Scope...
Hi, I saw a documentary film about Egipt piramids witch according to one hypothesis were build seeing the night sky position of stars 10.000 years BC. The...
Does anyone know how to install the new UCAC2 catalogue from the USNO? -Ralph Danielson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Ralph Danielson
rdaniel757@...
Aug 10, 2003 9:59 pm
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First, the pyramids were built much later than 10000 years ago. The idea that they are really much older is popular among those who claim that the pyramids...
Hello, I am sorry for all this spam we receive during my vacation. I was confident to remove the moderation status for the new subscriber because there was no...
Oh, but there is. Their predecessors, the step/stair pyramids were built of brick and as such can be dated reasonably accurately using thermoluminicense. Age...
John Ståhle
johnstaahle@...
Aug 11, 2003 5:40 pm
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I agree with the age of the pyramids that were built using oven baked bricks. I think your refer to pyramids like the one in Sakara. There are also pyramids...
Thank you very much to Philippe Martinole and Tony Nelson who are now moderator of the group. All the message from new subscriber are now moderated. I hope...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Aug 11, 2003 6:32 pm
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Hello, I also found my three CD at return from vacation. With the extent to a great part of the northern sky this catalog is now a very valuable piece. It is...
Patrick Chevalley
pch@...
Aug 11, 2003 7:24 pm
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... This is ridiculous. The proper motion correction is a simple linear correction, available in Cartes du Ciel. Just go to preferences>catalog>stars1 and...
Need some Help Please my regular files are in CDC which open but the ones I've downloaded are in SDD,CDS,CDM,etc and cannot figure out how to incorporated ...
Hi I really like the new coordinate grid feature in Alpha release 2, the little bar as an angular distance indicator is great! I am looking forward to every...
I am not quite sure what your problem is, but your brief description seems to hint that it is related to path. The proper path for *.sdd, *.cds and *.cdm files...
