Brendan The only files you should need are the .cat and the .acc files. The rest are info. Since you can set the catalog to display up to 7 degrees with a...
Hi, I downlowded cdc 3 beta 0.1.0 and installed it in my machine. I found country selection list shutdowns CDC. Then I downloaded August 27 snapshot, and I...
Hi, I downloaded and installed CDC3 beta 0.1.0 on Windows XP sp2. After that, I patch CDC using August 27 snapshoot. When I try selecting countries from the...
Hello, I'm attempting to observe an occultation of a star by an asteroid in a few days so I started exploring the target star with CdC 3. The star, TYC...
Sander: Are you saving the chart in ".cdc" format, or are you saving it as an image file? If you save it as a .bmp file all the labels, paths, etc. should be...
Geoff, I'm saving it as a CdC chart. A BMP can not be loaded by CdC so that wouldn't work with my scenario, right? When I save the settings and the chart and...
Hi, I have recently taken an interest in double stars. After having downloaded the WDS everything seems to be working well with the exception of the labels....
Sander: My experience in both versions 2 & 3 has been that a chart saved to .cdc format saves all of the "static" objects, stars, nebulae, planet positions for...
Hi John I noticed the same thing. Short of zooming in, I don't know if there's a solution to your problem, but there is a work-around that I use. If you click...
Its time for the yearly update of the PGC galaxy catalog. The 2006 PGC catalg contains 1,472,500 galaxies from the HyperLEDA <http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/> as...
Has anyone else noticed that recent snapshots (I use the 8/12/06 version) of 3.0 don't show pictures of objects anymore? I have the pictures loaded and scanned...
Last night I did my first serious star hopping experiment where I walked the scope from Alp-Tri to M33 by comparing what I saw in the fov with what CdC told me...
Sander, Yes, this is one of the reason to use the two (or more) charts feature. Don't miss to click the button to link the charts together, this way they here...
Try with the last snapshot available here: http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/snapshot/ Get the "debug" version and run with gdb as indicated on this page. This ...
But it does! 1. Preferences -> Eyepiece... -> insert Whatever size you need 2. Right click, Finder circles, left click on target. It's as simple as that - no...
The last snapshot is 9/16 but I don't think this is of help for this problem. Are you sure you are using the SAC catalog? the picture are available only for...
Hi Patrick, I only had NGC selected. With just SAC selected the pictures work fine. I didn't know that was a restriction. Are there other drawbacks or benefits...
... That works fine when the target is on the screen, but he specifically wanted something that will indicate the direction _to_ the target when the target is ...
I tried to observe three satellites tonight. The first was listed at about 2.6 but seemed a lot brighter. Didn't see the second but it was supposed to be...
So, I went to the following web page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=64092&package_id=97423 I downloaded the picture file for windows...
You first need to install the MySQL software: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html Then you can continue as stated on the SourceForge page. Setup ->...