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Free Astronomy Log Software
I've been developing software for amateur astronomers and giving it away
for a few years now. Here is an update on the latest pieces of software available for FREE on my Web site: - The Ultimate Messier Object Log (TUMOL). A powerful database for finding the Messier objects and recording your observations. It has star charts and pictures of all the objects. - The Simple Observing Log (TSOL). A simple, yet powerful database for tracking all your observations. Now includes an in-depth astrophoto and CCD imaging section, and variable star tracking info conforming to AAVSO standards. - The Caldwell Observing Log (TCOL). Once you've completed the Messier search, you may want to try observing the Caldwell catalog. This database is similar to TUMOL but has the Caldwell objects. - The Overlooked Object Log (OOLog). This log is based on Brent Watson's cool Telrad companion book on Overlooked Objects. Unlike the other logs, it does not include charts or pictures.... You'll have to buy Brent's book! (http://www.sky-spot.com/skyspot.html) - The Eyepiece Calculator (TEC). This is not downloadable software, but a simple Web-based page using Javascript that lets you enter information about your eyepieces and telescope, and find out magnification, field of view, etc. Now available in Spanish! (¡Ahora en Español!) All the above software runs on Macs and Windows. Some of it is also available for Palm OS. If you have Filemaker Pro, you can even download the source and modify it for your own uses! The logs let you sort by different views, such as season, constellation, catalog #, etc. There are more reports than you are likely to need, and even a "night vision" mode that displays everything in red so you can use it in the field. (But menus aren't affected, so I'd recommend you use a program like DarkAdapted instead: http://www.adpartnership.net/DarkAdapted/index.html ) All of the software is free, no strings attached, no tricks, no gathering of marketing data, etc. It is fully functional, and not shareware or demoware. http://www.davidpaulgreen.com/software.html Clear skies, David Green P.S. I have no affiliation with either Brent Watson or DarkAdapted, other than as an appreciative customer. |
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Free Astronomy Log Software
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:06:52 GMT, David Green
wrote: I've been developing software for amateur astronomers and giving it away for a few years now. Here is an update on the latest pieces of software available for FREE on my Web site: - The Ultimate Messier Object Log (TUMOL). A powerful database for finding the Messier objects and recording your observations. It has star charts and pictures of all the objects. - The Simple Observing Log (TSOL). A simple, yet powerful database for tracking all your observations. Now includes an in-depth astrophoto and CCD imaging section, and variable star tracking info conforming to AAVSO standards. - The Caldwell Observing Log (TCOL). Once you've completed the Messier search, you may want to try observing the Caldwell catalog. This database is similar to TUMOL but has the Caldwell objects. - The Overlooked Object Log (OOLog). This log is based on Brent Watson's cool Telrad companion book on Overlooked Objects. Unlike the other logs, it does not include charts or pictures.... You'll have to buy Brent's book! (http://www.sky-spot.com/skyspot.html) - The Eyepiece Calculator (TEC). This is not downloadable software, but a simple Web-based page using Javascript that lets you enter information about your eyepieces and telescope, and find out magnification, field of view, etc. Now available in Spanish! (¡Ahora en Español!) All the above software runs on Macs and Windows. Some of it is also available for Palm OS. If you have Filemaker Pro, you can even download the source and modify it for your own uses! The logs let you sort by different views, such as season, constellation, catalog #, etc. There are more reports than you are likely to need, and even a "night vision" mode that displays everything in red so you can use it in the field. (But menus aren't affected, so I'd recommend you use a program like DarkAdapted instead: http://www.adpartnership.net/DarkAdapted/index.html ) All of the software is free, no strings attached, no tricks, no gathering of marketing data, etc. It is fully functional, and not shareware or demoware. http://www.davidpaulgreen.com/software.html Clear skies, David Green P.S. I have no affiliation with either Brent Watson or DarkAdapted, other than as an appreciative customer. Thanks. I edit the newsletter for a local astronomy association and amateur observatory. I include an astronomy website in every edition; yours will be in the next one. Cordially, Dennis |
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Free Astronomy Log Software
Hey Paul,
for us troglodytes who use steam powered computers, How you do that? "Paul Schlyter" wrote in message ... In article , David Green wrote: - The Eyepiece Calculator (TEC). This is not downloadable software, but a simple Web-based page using Javascript I'm sorry, but it's pretty easy to download such pages too. Then you have it as a local file on your own computer and can run it from there anytime you want. I save local copies of Javascript pages I like -- then I still have them even if the web site should go away for one reason or another. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN e-mail: pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se WWW: http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/ http://home.tiscali.se/pausch/ |
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Free Astronomy Log Software
In article ,
jaf wrote: "Paul Schlyter" wrote in message ... In article , David Green wrote: - The Eyepiece Calculator (TEC). This is not downloadable software, but a simple Web-based page using Javascript I'm sorry, but it's pretty easy to download such pages too. Then you have it as a local file on your own computer and can run it from there anytime you want. I save local copies of Javascript pages I like -- then I still have them even if the web site should go away for one reason or another. Hey Paul, for us troglodytes who use steam powered computers, How you do that? I assume you by "steam powered computers" mean computers not having a GUI.... Get the nice freeware utility Curl at http://curl.haxx.se -- if needed, build it on your system. Then, to save any web page (or other file on the web) as a local file on your computer, simply do: curl [url] [name_of_local_file] where [url] can be both http:// and ftp:// URL's. If the URL points to a directory (and in such a case, it must contain a trailing /), you'll get a listing of the files in that directory, or a message that you're not allowed to get such a listing on that machine. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN e-mail: pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se WWW: http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/ http://home.tiscali.se/pausch/ |
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Free Astronomy Log Software
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:34:12 GMT, "jaf"
wrote: for us troglodytes who use steam powered computers, You're using Outlook Express to read news, so I guess you have Internet Explorer. Using Internet Explorer, click on "File" then click on "Save as ..." then change file name and directory as desired then click on "Save." This way you don't have to burn connect time the next time you want to look at the page. Pages that use server side programming won't work, though. |
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