Cartes du Ciel v 3.0

[Amar Sharma]

Hello All, Has anyone been able to use this version of CdC lately? We have been big fans of v 2.76 which has reliably helped us grow in our observational ventures. If this is an improved version of the same, it would be great. However several of the features appear different. Thanking You. ************** Amar A. Sharma Bangalore Astronomical Society BAS (www.bas.org.in) Signature : Oh... we astronomers have seen, and are still seeing far deep into space, closer to God with just with 2 material eyes...I wonder what we all would start seeing with our third cosmic eye, still closed and ignorant!

[Akarsh Simha]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 05:15:58AM -0700, Amar wrote:
> Hello All, Has anyone been able to use this version of CdC lately? We have
> been big fans of v 2.76 which has reliably helped us grow in our
> observational ventures. If this is an improved version of the same, it
> would be great. However several of the features appear different. Thanking
> You.

I've tried it on Linux. You can apt-get install skychart on Debian and
get CdC. I wonder how one can install Tycho-2 and other stuff, though.

Regards
Akarsh

[Karthik Vijaykumar]

for installing the catalogs simply download them to your home directory
and within cdc you have an option to choose your catalogs
there you can add them.

--
Karthik Vijayakumar,
3rd year,Msc (intgd) Mathematics and Scientific Computing,
IIT Kanpur

[Akarsh Simha]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:23:37PM +0530, Karthik Vijaykumar wrote:
> for installing the catalogs simply download them to your home directory
> and within cdc you have an option to choose your catalogs
> there you can add them.

Thanks, Karthik.

Where can I download the catalogs? AFAIK, the main website gives only
.exe installers.

Do you simply run them on WINE?

Regards
Akarsh

[Karthik Vijaykumar]

step 1 : http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
step 2 : go to the update on 25 may 2006 http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/index.php
step 3: go to download http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/download
step 4 : choose catalogs
step 5: Download the files
step 6: unpack them to /usr/share/skychart/cat ( this is where the
cats are stored)

[Karthik Vijaykumar]

step6 contd: otherwise unzip them to your home directory and the open
skychart go to setup -> catalogs
and add as necessary

sorry for the split mail.