Astro sky chart software

I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.

Ones I have tried such as HNsky and Cartes Du Ciel dont seem to have
that functionality.

Any suggestions?

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:23:33 +1100, Geoff penned:

I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.

Ones I have tried such as HNsky and Cartes Du Ciel dont seem to have
that functionality.

Any suggestions?

XEphem has this functionality:

http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/index.html

Brian Rachford

On 16 Nov 2003 00:45:08 GMT, "Brian L. Rachford"
wrote:

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:23:33 +1100, Geoff penned:

I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.

Ones I have tried such as HNsky and Cartes Du Ciel dont seem to have
that functionality.

Any suggestions?

XEphem has this functionality:

http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/index.html

Brian Rachford

Thanks, I should have specified that I run windows .

I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.


SkyTools does this very well.

-Florian

On 16 Nov 2003 00:45:08 GMT, Brian L. Rachford penned:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 11:23:33 +1100, Geoff penned:

I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.

Ones I have tried such as HNsky and Cartes Du Ciel dont seem to have
that functionality.

Any suggestions?

XEphem has this functionality:

http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/index.html

I guess I could have pointed out that XEphem is only for Mac
OS X and Linux/Unix, and I should have realized that since you
didn't mention an operating system you are almost certainly
using Windows...sorry 'bout that.

Brian Rachford

Geoff wrote:

I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.

Ones I have tried such as HNsky and Cartes Du Ciel dont seem to have
that functionality.

Any suggestions?

XEphem does.

Geoff wrote:

I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.

Ones I have tried such as HNsky and Cartes Du Ciel dont seem to have
that functionality.

Any suggestions?

SkyTools 2 filters by type of object and many other factors, including
what you're observing with and the local conditions. It's great for
planning a session.

http://www.skyhound.com/skytools.html

Mike Simmons

On 2003-11-16, Brian L. Rachford wrote:

I guess I could have pointed out that XEphem is only for Mac
OS X and Linux/Unix, and I should have realized that since you
didn't mention an operating system you are almost certainly
using Windows...sorry 'bout that.

Downey has a Microsoft Windows version of XEphem and XEphem will compile
and run under Cygwin for Microsoft Windows.

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I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.


SkyTools does this very well.

-Florian

I am looking for astro chart software which will filter out DSO's by
type eg display only globular cluster or planetary nebs etc.


I believe Skymap will do this. The old Windows 3.1 version has this capability
so I would guess that the newer versions do as well.

There is a demo version available at:

http://www.skymap.com/smp_eval.htm

jon