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advanced_search

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Advanced Search From the menu: Edit -> Advanced Search, or from the icon on the Search group of the main bar. First, select the appropriate object type by a click one of the radio buttons. Then enter its ID in the bottom entry area. The buttons can help you to enter the catalog - and the object id at the right hand side of this area. When the object is found, the chart will be shifted so to display the object in the centre.

calendar_asteroid

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Calendar, Asteroid Shows the position, magnitude, Sun elongation, phase, rise, culmination and set time for the selected asteroid. You can simply select an asteroid from a picklist by clicking the combobox. This way, you can only select from the first 50 asteroids. The good part is that you can search for any listed asteroid, simply enter (a part of) the name or number, press the filter button, and select the asteroid from the combobox.

calendar_comet

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Calendar, Comet Shows the position, magnitude, Sun elongation, phase, rise, culmination and set time for the selected comets. The elevation above horizon and azimuth at the twilight time are indicated to help observing comets near the Sun. This indicates if the comet is best observed on the morning or evening.

calendar_input_area

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Calendar, Input Area You can select the start date, end date and the number of days between each calculation, and the time when the positions are calculated. By default, the calculations are from the current date till the next five days at 0h UT. Beware of the calculation time, when you select a long timespan.

calendar_lunar_eclipses

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Calendar, Lunar Eclipses All the information in this page comes from Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC. You can visit his web site by clicking the large button at the top of the dialog box. The list shows the Lunar eclipses for the current century. This shows the date and time of the maxima, the type of eclipse, the saros number, the gamma value, the magnitude of the penumbra and umbra, the duration of the partial and total phases.

calendar_planet

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Calendar, Planet Shows the position, magnitude, apparent diameter, illuminated fraction, rise, culmination and set time. Also the current position in altitude and azimuth is shown for the planets, the Moon and the Sun, for each selected date.

calendar_solar_eclipses

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Calendar, Solar Eclipses All the information in this page comes from Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC. You can visit his web site by clicking the large button at the top of the dialog box. The list shows the Solar eclipses for the current century. It shows the date and time of the maxima, the availability of the detailed map, the type of eclipse, the saros number, the gamma value, the eclipse magnitude, the location of the eclipse maxima, the altitude of the Sun at this point, the path width in kilome…

calendar_twilight

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Calendar, Twilight This screen shows you the morning and evening twilight times for the dates as you had set in the input areas of the calendar. Twilight is distinguished in 3 sorts: * 1. civilian twilight the center of the sun is between 0º and 6º of arc below the horizon. (This period of time is not shown in SkyChart).

catalog

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:57 +0000

Catalog From the menu: Setup -> Catalog The Catalog dialog box has four tabs: * Catalog * CdC Stars * CdC Deep Sky * Obsolete Catalog From the menu: Setup -> Catalog -> Catalog Here you can add and activate all kinds of external catalogs previously built for SkyCharts with the CatGen utility. You can invoke Catgen by the

catgen

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

CATGEN From the menu: Setup -> Catalog, then in the dialog, click the CatGen button on the right. You can download thousands of Catalog text files with data of any kind of celestial objects from the CDS or ADC web site, and other sources. Each one contains the information about a few tens to a many millions of objects.

chart_coordinates

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:01 +0000

Chart, Coordinates Setting From the menu: Setup -> Chart, Coordinates The Chart, Coordinates Setting has six tabs: * Chart, Coordinates * Field of Vision * Projection * Object Filter * Grid Spacing * Object List Setting Chart, Coordinates Chart Setting Here, you can specify the coordinate system used for the chart. The four available systems are:

date_time

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Date / Time setting From the menu: Setup -> Day / Time. You also can retrieve this dialog box by a click at the Set_date_and_time icon from the left bar, or by Setup -> All configuration options -> Date / Time. The Date/Time setting has two tabs: * Time * Simulation For a proper display of your chart, also make sure you set the right

detailed_information

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Detailed Information How to retrieve detailed information * Click on a line of the Object List to get detailed information about the object. * Right-click on an object at the chart and select “About ...” in the pop-up window. * When edit label mode is

directories_and_files

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:57 +0000

Directories and Files Here is an overview of the directories and files on standard installations. Current version Windows PurposeDirectoryexecutableskychart.exe (the main program) executablecdcicon.exe (the clock with many times) executablevarobs.exe (Variable Star Observer)

display

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Display From the menu: Setup -> Display. The Display setting has nine tabs: * Display * Color * Deep-sky colour * Sky colour * Lines * Labels * Fonts * Finder circle (Eyepiece) * Finder rectangle (CCD) Display From the menu: Setup -> Display -> Display The way stars and deep sky objects are displayed. You can choose to display the deep sky objects by outlines (Line mode), or to display them as filled areas (Graphic).

documentation_license

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:57 +0000

Documentation License Copyright (c) 2006 Patrick Chevalley and the Skychart Documentation Team. [cc-by-sa] This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. To view a copy of this license, visit or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

faq

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Gyakran ismételt kérdések Általános :?: Hogyan tudom jobbá tenni a Cartes du Ciel - SkyChart programot? Ennek több módja van: * Ha a legújabb, fejlesztői változatot használod, szólj, ha hibát találsz benne. (legyen az nyelvtani, adatbeli vagy működési hiba)

installation_and_compilation_of_the_source_code

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

How to install the software from the source code Get the source code Create a new directory for the source code. You have two ways to get the code: * Download the source file skychart_v3_xxx_source.tar.gz to this directory and extract the files.

installation_of_extra_catalogs

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Installation of extra catalogs With Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart it is easy to install popular ready-to-use catalogs. You can download and use them for free. Most catalogs aren't larger than some tens of megabytes, these will be helpfull to many dedicated amateurs.

installation_on_freebsd

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Installation on FreeBSD Installing and running Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart v3 alpha 0.0.6 for Linux under FreeBSD FIXME This procedure needs to be adapted for the beta version. There is no more need for Kylix Qt, but you need to install libgtk1.2 and libgdk-pixbuf2.

installation_on_linux_debian

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:36:04 +0000

Installation on Linux Debian or Ubuntu The Debian packages are available to enable automatic installation using aptitude or apt-get. First, become root or use sudo on each command. Add Patrick Chevalley's signature to APT: apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8B8B57C1AA716FC2

installation_on_mac_os_x

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Installation on Mac OS X Prerequisites * A recent Mac with Intel processor, PPC processors are not supported at the moment. * Mac OS X 10.4 or better. Instruction to install the binaries on Mac OS X. * Download the install file, i.e. skychart-3.1-i386-macosx.dmg

installation_on_windows

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:01 +0000

Installation on Windows Instruction to install the binaries on a Windows system It is possible to install the Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart version 3.0 over a full Windows version 2.76 in the same directory, and run the Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart 2.76 version apart from the 3.0 version. But you can also install the 3.0 version of Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart only. You can download the last stable (still Beta) version from

internet

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Internet FIXME The pictures internet_proxy.jpg, internet_orbit.jpg are obsolete and should be replaced. It doesn't affect the usabillity of this document. Proxy From the menu: Setup -> Internet -> Proxy * HTTP Proxy If you are connected to Internet through a proxy, SkyCharts needs its parameters to work.

keyboard_shortcuts

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Keyboard Shortcuts Scale, Field of Vision * +: Zoom in * -: Zoom out * 1, 2, ...9, 0, a: predefined FOV range # * Mousewheel push: Zoom in * Mousewheel pull: Zoom out * Continuous left mouse click with drag of the mouse cursor: select a zone to Zoom in

labels

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Labels The selection of the labels to be shown You can configure the automatic display of labels in SkyChart by Setup -> Display -> Labels. You also can set the font type, the font size, color, and which kind of objects to label. For stars and constellations you can set the type of content to fill the labels.

left_bar

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

The bar at the left Set date and time * Set date and time is a shortcut for Setup -> Date / Time. Observatory * Set observatory location is a shortcut for Setup -> Observatory. Setup * Configure the program is similar way to get to Setup. Coordinate System group

line_commands

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Command line options Cartes du Ciel - SkyChart accepts the following options on the command line: Option Parameter Function --config configuration file path Lets you specify the configuration file to use instead of the default “%LOCALAPPDATA%\skychart\skychart.ini

main_bar

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Main Bar The File Group * Create a new Chart is a shortcut for File -> New chart. * Open a chart is a shortcut for File -> Open. * Save the current chart is a shortcut for File -> Save as.... * Print the chart is a shortcut for File -> Print. Night Vision color (View)

menuchart

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

The Chart Menu FIXME The picture cdc_menu_chart.png should be updated with the current SkyChart version. It doesn't affect the usabillity of this document. The Chart Menu enables you to configure the displayed chart according to your needs in a fast and easy way. If a more detailed configuration is needed, take a look at

menuedit

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Edit Menu The Edit menu consists of the following items: * Advanced Search * Edit Label * Copy * Undo * Redo Advanced Search This brings you to the dialog box to do an advanced search for an object. You can search for planets, stars, deep sky objects, comets or asteroids. Click

menufile

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

File Menu The File menu includes the following options * New Chart * Open * Save As * Close Chart * Reset chart and options * Calendar * Variable Stars * Save Image... * Print * Printer Setup * Exit New Chart The new V3 of Cartes du Ciel enables you to open different windows with separate sky charts. The advantage is that you can visualize different charts at the same moment for different locations, time or even display configuration.

menuhelp

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 08:28:33 +0000

Help Menu Help Contents Here it is! Maybe you are viewing this help documentation from your local computer that came with your SkyChart installation. Keep in mind that the most recent help documentation is always available online. The online documentation is written for the most recent SkyChart version.

menusetup

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Setup Menu Date/Time Gives you control over the used time in the chart. Here you also can make your settings to simulate the movement of objects in the solar system. A click the line Date/Time opens the configuration window. Have a look at this page for further details.

menutelescope

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Telescope Menu From the menu: Telescope SkyChart can be used to drive electronically controlled mounts, but you can also use SkyChart to retrieve instructions to turn knobs on a manually controlled mount. Anyhow, before you can use your telescope mount in combination with SkyChart, you need to configure the sort of mount and the driver from

menuview

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:57 +0000

View Menu Full Screen From the menu: View -> Full Screen This resizes the CdC window to fill the entire screen. The display status of the tool bars, status bar, scroll bars and the menu bar will be unchanged. A new click on this entry resizes the CdC window to its original size.

menuwindow

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Window Menu FIXME The picture menu_window.jpg is obsolete. No problem the for usability of this document Settings of the position and behaviour of the charts inside a SkyChart window. Link all Chart From the menu: Window -> Link All chart

object_bar

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Object Bar FIXME The picture “barre_objet.jpg” has dissapeared from the site. The object bar is displayed horizontally, just above the chart, under the main bar. It contains the icons that are related to the display of all kinds of things on the chart.

object_list

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Object List Click on the icon from the main bar to retrieve an exerpt from the catalogs for the displayed objects on the chart. To configure which object types are to be listed, you need to adapt the settings to your needs by Setup -> Chart, Coordinates

observatory

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:01 +0000

Observatory Settings From the menu: Setup -> Observatory Settings This dialog box can be reached from the menu by: Setup -> Observatory, by the observatory icon in the bar at the left hand side, or by Setup -> All configuration options -> All configuration options. The Observatory settings dialog box has two tabs:

pictures

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Pictures From the menu: Setup -> Pictures There are two locations to manage the FITS-formatted pictures: * install directory\data\pictures\sac\ which contain the SAC object pictures. * user data\pictures\ which is used to store the downloaded pictures from the DSS or the temporary pictures from RealSky.

pop_up_windows

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Pop-up windows This matrix shows the results of on-the-chart mouse actions: actiontargetopens on the chart:Left click on adisplayed objecta labelRight click on adisplayed objectthe chart pop-up window with extra object possibilitiesLeft click on a

position_and_field_of_vision

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Position and Field of Vision From the menu View -> Position You can also open this window by clicking on icon in the main tool bar. Position This provides a quick and easy way to read or set the coordinates of the center of the chart. Coordinates can be equatorial or azimuthal. The conversion is done automatically.

quick_start_chart

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:01 +0000

The Chart Guide content * Installation * The Chart * The Solar System * Deep Sky Objects * Driving a telescope * Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart as an application server When you start Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart, it will display something like this: [Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart Window] Observation location and time With the Setup -> Observatory dialog box (or with the icon in left bar)you can choose a country, then a town close to your location.

quick_start_deep_sky

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Guide content * Installation * The Chart * The Solar System * Deep Sky Objects * Driving a telescope * Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart as an application server Deep Sky Stars You can switch on/off the display of stars with the Chart -> Show Objects -> Show stars dialog box or the icon in the object bar. You can modify the star appearance by the Setup ->

quick_start_guide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:57 +0000

Quick Start Guide Memento download Memento is the roadmap how to reach all the facilities in SkyChart / Cartes du Ciel. To print this easily, the memento is available in an OpenDocument ('Open Office' document) or in PDF format. [memento_1.1.1_en.odt] [memento_1.1.1_en.pdf] Guide Content * Installation

quick_start_server

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Guide content * Installation * The Chart * The Solar System * Deep Sky Objects * Driving a telescope * Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart as an application server Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart as an application server FIXME Please, correct my poor english :-\

quick_start_solar_system

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Guide content * Installation * The Chart * The Solar System * Deep Sky Objects * Driving a telescope * Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart as an application server The Solar System Planets You can switch on/off the display of the Sun, planets and satellites with the Chart -> Show Objects -> Show planets dialog box or the icon in the object bar. Advanced => In the

quick_start_telescope

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Guide content * Installation * The Chart * The Solar System * Deep Sky Objects * Driving a telescope * Cartes du Ciel-SkyChart as an application server Driving a telescope FIXME Please, correct my poor english :-\

right_bar

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

The bar at the right FIXME The icons for the cardinal directions N, E, S, W seem to have dissapeared (i37.png to i40.png) This doesn't affect the usability of the document. The Field of Vision group These icons are shortcuts for Chart -> Field of Vision -> ....

server_commands

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Server Commands SkyChart can work as a server. It accepts the following commands from a TCP/IP connexion: Main Commands Command Parameters Comment or GUI Equivalent NEWCHART chart_name File -> New Chart CLOSECHART chart_name File -> Close Chart SELECTCHART

server_information

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Server Information FIXME Unfortunately, nobody has written this yet. Feel free to do so!

software_license

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Software License Cartes du Ciel software, Copyright (c) 2006 Patrick Chevalley This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURP…

solar_system

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Solar System From the menu: Setup -> Solar system You can make settings for the Solar system objects in four tabs: * Solar System * Planet * Comet * Asteroid Solar System In this tab, you can specify the directory with the pictures of the planets. These will be used when you enable the display of planets with the checkbox and click the

start

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:58 +0000

Dokumentáció Közreműködhetsz ezen oldalak jobbításában . Tutorial * Quick Start Guide Installálás * Linux Debian * FreeBSD * Windows * Mac OS X * extra katalógusok Reference Manual The menu bar and pop up windows from the chart You can choose from the following menu items: * File * Edit *

status_bar

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

Status Bar You will find the status bar at the bottom of your SkyChart window. It is split in two: the coordinates part at the left, an information summary at the right hand side. Left Here you can find two lines which display the coordinates of the current cursor position at the chart. The line on top will be in the coordination system as you set the chart. The line at the bottom will display the position according to the equatorial coordination system, except when you set your chart to use…

system

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:59 +0000

System System In this window, you can manage the SkyChart database. It contains the orbital elements of comets and asteroids, SAC picture information, information about the DSS/RealSky pictures and information of observatory locations. In order to display comets and asteroids, SkyChart needs to calculate the ephemeris, and store them in a database. But before SkyChart can do that, you need to download fresh files with