... Try the links to a pdf document and ASCII files at the bottom of this page: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?planet_pos Peter -- _________________________________ ...
... Unfortunately you can't treat the planets as simple "Kelperian" elliptical orbits except for the most crude level of accuracy; their gravitional...
... Oh. I've always felt there was something wrong with treating planets as a 2-body system with the sun, but I didn't know it was that bad. I have a copy of...
... How many years before an error of, say, 0.1"? If I use J2000.0, will this suffice for dates from 2001-2010? If I use epoch 1980.0 elements found in...
Comet 6P d'Arrest is a magnitude 8.8 comet in Microscopium. The 6P designates it is a periodic comet. It comes around about every six years. The comet was...
Dennis, Nice work, must've been difficult as low as Microscopium is from your neck of the woods. I noted your comment about not capturing the PGC galaxies, but...
I seem to have gotten SMP to download the current comet catalog from the url below. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/Soft01Cmt.txt When I open...
I forgot about the comet icon on the right. I've opened the correct catalog and things seem to be humming. While I'm here I thought I'd inquire as to whether...
Dennis I appreciate you taking the time to inform us on other groups that there is a good comet available. Unfortunately we "went after" this one and couldn't...
Hello Greg, Although SkyMap Pro is an excellent resource for finding comet coordinates, it has a problem shared with all but one other planetarium program:...
Low power may be the rule for comets but something I saw had it rated at Mag 11. That's trivial in the c14 and in the 17.5" dob but at 15 degrees above the...
Greg, I was able to image it a couple of weeks ago with my 120mm refractor. The only way I could tell it was the comet was by two photos taken far enough apart...
Thanks, that helps clear things up. Greg N ... refractor. The only way I could tell it was the comet was by two photos taken far enough apart in time to see...
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I've noticed that SS Cygni appears in two locations on SkyMap Pro: Apparent RA: 21h 42m 42.52s Apparent Dec: +43° 36' 37.5" Apparent RA: 21h 42m 57.29s ...
Hi! I am trying to display the Messier objects at level 2 and did a ... Chris answered the following: The easiest way to do this is: 1. Load the "Messier"...
... I don't have access to a copy of SkyMap at the moment, but are they records from different catalogs? You can see which catalog the information is from in...
Here is the start of the two records - Chris I can never figure out which catalogue SMP is using as the primary, it is probably obvious but is record one using...
OK, that explains it. The first record is from the Tycho 2 catalog - the second from the General Catalog of Variable Stars. The position data from Tycho will ...
Chris, Thanks! That is what I needed to know. On another note, I mostly lurk on this group (since version 6 I think), but Chris I want to let you know that...
Hello fellow Skymap Pro user. I'm not new to the program; in fact I don't even remember what version I started with. I know I still have a version 5 manual....
I'm curious why this comet is not the most recent Comet Data download for SkyMap Pro. It is about magnitude 11.8 and has been imaged by a number of amateur...
can You unsubscribe me somehow please. ... From: Dennis Persyk <dpersyk@...> To: skymap@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, 4 October, 2008 3:39:54 Subject:...
Denis, just dowload the file using Skymap, and then make it the default list when asked. After that just tick all the comets you want to see, one being...
