(meteorobs) Software recommendation

Jodie Reynolds spacerocks at spaceballoon.org
Sun Feb 17 18:34:45 EST 2013


Hello Jim and List,

I love Stellarium and all the plugins for it, but it just does not
like my ASCOM-compliant telescope.  I've pounded on it for days and
surrendered.

If you're wanting to generate sky charts and control scopes or
similar such things, you might also consider Cartes Du Ciel.  I
sucked it up and added the USNO star catalog to 16th mag to it for some of my
deep-sky photo astrometrics.

If you're wanting satellite predictions, gpredict is what I run on
Linux, but Stellarium has a plugin, and Encyclopedia Galactica is
also worthwhile.

SOLEX hasn't been updated in a long while, but you can run it with
DOSBox and it's really quite powerful for chaotic motion and impact
probabilities and dynamics.


Anyway, there's quite a few good free choices out there, just need to
drill into what you're really wanting to accomplish to find the
"best".


Stellarium and Cartes Du Ciel are both outstanding for the task you
listed.

--- Jodie

Sunday, February 17, 2013, 1:27:07 PM, you wrote:

> Thanks Chris!

> I downloaded Stellarium and I'll give that a try tonight.

> Jim


> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Chris <cdolman at telus.net> wrote:
>> Hi Jim
>>
>> Sorry that link didn't work. Try just:     edu.kde.org/kstars/
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 06:10 -0700, Jim Wooddell wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> I am looking for software that will help me ID celestial bodies and
>>> calculate the azimuth, Elevation from a location on earth with very
>>> good accuracy?
>>>
>>> Preferably free!
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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