(meteorobs) Software recommendation

[Jim Wooddell]

Hi Jodie and thanks for the info.
I am just looking at getting a better handle on where things are in
the sky at any given time period.  I was happy to see they had a 64bit
version of the program and that is what I downloaded.  In a few more
hours, I will be able to look around.  I suppose the end goal is to
come up with some angles I can use to help locate stuff in the skycam
better.  I do see some interesting plug-ins and will have to learn how
to activate them, etc.

Jim


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Jodie Reynolds
<spacerocks at spaceballoon.org> wrote:
> 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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> --
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>  Jodie                            mailto:spacerocks at spaceballoon.org
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