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specs of laptops
I take it by reading a thread "LX90 First Light (longish)", most people here
have a laptop to go out with to do star gazing. I have one too, its a 700Mhz one, capable of running my starry night software slowly, but one concern i have about using that with (hopefully my LX90), is the light, is there sotware out there to run programs a shade of red. Also, what are the specs of your laptops? stuart |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:18:37 +0100, "Stuart Turrell"
wrote: I take it by reading a thread "LX90 First Light (longish)", most people here have a laptop to go out with to do star gazing. I have one too, its a 700Mhz one, capable of running my starry night software slowly, but one concern i have about using that with (hopefully my LX90), is the light, is there sotware out there to run programs a shade of red. Is that the newest version of Starry Night? My older version runs perfectly well on an old 266Mhz machine! Starry night (or the older versions) had that wonderful gamma ramping facility IIRC Settings -- Night Vision. This was particularly good (if your graphics card supports it) because it changes *all* colours to a shade of red - not just the Windows colour scheme which leaves with a burningly bright cursor along with a few minor window building blocks. Also, what are the specs of your laptops? My astro one is an old Compaq Armada running at 600MHz with a 12Gb hard disk. -- Pete Lawrence http://www.pbl33.co.uk Astronomy & digital astroimaging |
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i have starry night pro plus 4.5, but i also have a copy of 3.12 thnks to
whatever pc magazine it was! I have a compaq armada too, i have not got it with me but i think its 600mhz (something like that) maybe even 700mhz. "Pete Lawrence" wrote in message ... On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:18:37 +0100, "Stuart Turrell" wrote: I take it by reading a thread "LX90 First Light (longish)", most people here have a laptop to go out with to do star gazing. I have one too, its a 700Mhz one, capable of running my starry night software slowly, but one concern i have about using that with (hopefully my LX90), is the light, is there sotware out there to run programs a shade of red. Is that the newest version of Starry Night? My older version runs perfectly well on an old 266Mhz machine! Starry night (or the older versions) had that wonderful gamma ramping facility IIRC Settings -- Night Vision. This was particularly good (if your graphics card supports it) because it changes *all* colours to a shade of red - not just the Windows colour scheme which leaves with a burningly bright cursor along with a few minor window building blocks. Also, what are the specs of your laptops? My astro one is an old Compaq Armada running at 600MHz with a 12Gb hard disk. -- Pete Lawrence http://www.pbl33.co.uk Astronomy & digital astroimaging |
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so do you steer your scope by the software, or just use the software for
reference? "Pete Lawrence" wrote in message ... On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:18:37 +0100, "Stuart Turrell" wrote: I take it by reading a thread "LX90 First Light (longish)", most people here have a laptop to go out with to do star gazing. I have one too, its a 700Mhz one, capable of running my starry night software slowly, but one concern i have about using that with (hopefully my LX90), is the light, is there sotware out there to run programs a shade of red. Is that the newest version of Starry Night? My older version runs perfectly well on an old 266Mhz machine! Starry night (or the older versions) had that wonderful gamma ramping facility IIRC Settings -- Night Vision. This was particularly good (if your graphics card supports it) because it changes *all* colours to a shade of red - not just the Windows colour scheme which leaves with a burningly bright cursor along with a few minor window building blocks. Also, what are the specs of your laptops? My astro one is an old Compaq Armada running at 600MHz with a 12Gb hard disk. -- Pete Lawrence http://www.pbl33.co.uk Astronomy & digital astroimaging |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:51:24 +0100, "Stuart Turrell"
wrote: so do you steer your scope by the software, Wash your mouth out ;-) ! or just use the software for reference? Just for general planning really. -- Pete Lawrence http://www.pbl33.co.uk Astronomy & digital astroimaging |
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lol!!
I use a very slow laptop compared to my desktop, probably about 266Mhz/160MB ram/4GB but I doubt many people need powerful computers for their work. My laptop is a Toshiba and very robust - good for outdoors as I have to keep opening/closing the lid frequently (I also use it to type stuff at university). I run Redshift on it (dunno what version) and right now trying to get all these new programs on it like K2CCDtools, registax, astrostack etc for astrophotography. Dre |
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""Also, what are the specs of your laptops?""
An older Celestron 800Mhz """but one concern i have about using that with ............is the light,""" I only use it when taking pictures, usually of the brighter stuff; no need for night vision at this time. Regards Chris "Stuart Turrell" wrote in message ... I take it by reading a thread "LX90 First Light (longish)", most people here have a laptop to go out with to do star gazing. I have one too, its a 700Mhz one, capable of running my starry night software slowly, but one concern i have about using that with (hopefully my LX90), is the light, is there sotware out there to run programs a shade of red. Also, what are the specs of your laptops? stuart |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:27:01 +0100, "Chris Taylor"
wrote: ""Also, what are the specs of your laptops?"" An older Celestron 800Mhz Telescopes and processors! There's a diverse company |
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"Stuart Turrell" wrote in
: I have one too, its a 700Mhz one, capable of running my starry night software slowly, but one concern i have about using that with (hopefully my LX90), is the light, is there sotware out there to run programs a shade of red. I dont know if the punters here know of it, but I'll risk looking a prawn; a prog I find very handy, even though I don't take my puter out at night is Gamma Panel. My LCD screen is very bright, but awkward to quickly adjust for different ambient lighting, - this prog gives me instantly switchable profiles, and has separate RGB controls, so you should be able to red it up. From http://www.stars.benchmark.pl/index.php?show=gapa free - of course mike r |
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Stuart Turrell wrote:
is there sotware out there to run programs a shade of red. Niteview. http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~oliver/niteview/ Best, Stephen Remove footfrommouth to reply -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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