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Common Star names?
I just checked the weather and found out that we're supposed to have a clear night tonight. I fired up XEphem 3.5.1, went to the Sky View, and discovered that the stars I use to align my DSCs have
By John Perry <perry@...> · #141 ·
New file uploaded to xephem
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the xephem group. File : /lx200xed-pre3.5.2.gz Uploaded by : ecdowney2002
By xephem@... · #140 ·
Re: Xephem and Losmandy/Gemini
Is that a fix in xephem or in the lx200 libraries? Ive been debugging the latest lx200 libraries (liblx200 v0.8), and then i at least seem to get only 1 set of coordinates that looks ok.. But I still
By Cor Bosman <cor@...> · #139 ·
Re: Xephem and Losmandy/Gemini
This is a known issue and will be fixed in 3.5.2, which I hope to have out in the next week or so.
By ecdowney2002 <ecdowney@...> · #138 ·
Xephem and Losmandy/Gemini
Hi all, has anyone gotten the combination of Xephem/Gemini to work? Im sending and receiving data (according to strace), but the data looks weird. Im alternatively getting 2 sets of coordinates, which
By corbosman <cor@...> · #137 ·
Re: xephemdbd (3.4.1) - again!
xephemdbd.pl tries to run xephemdbd via a small intermediate script, start-xephemdbd. Sounds like this is not being found. Make sure you have set one up. The distribution does not include one but does
By ecdowney2002 <ecdowney@...> · #136 ·
Re: xephemdbd (3.4.1) - again!
Elwood, Thanks for the pointer - compiles nicely now...however, I'm now getting an odd error when trying to run the lookup... I've followed the install instructions including setting ownerships of the
By graemecoates <graemecoates@...> · #135 ·
Re: xephemdbd (3.4.1)
OPEN_MAX is the traditional means to get the maximum number of files a process may have open at one time. It used to be in <sys/param.h> until Berkeley UNIX made the number dynamic to support their
By ecdowney2002 <ecdowney@...> · #134 ·
Download asteroid datasets
I'm running 3.5.1 under windows Me. I cannot download the asteroid datasets. Although the .edb and TLE files download OK, the asteroids from MPC or Lowell will not. I get a dialog box "xephem
By rcj559 <rcj05@...> · #133 ·
xephemdbd (3.4.1)
I'm attempting to get xephemdbd (using the 3.4.1 source) working to run cgi queries on a web server. However, when I attempt to make the cgi script, I get a make error due to the variable "OPEN_MAX"
By graemecoates <graemecoates@...> · #132 ·
Re: get rid of ISS-912
If a .edb that contains exactly one entry is in the list of files that are automatically loaded at startup, said entry will be loaded /and/ assigned to an unused ObjXYZ as a convenience. There is no
By ecdowney2002 <ecdowney@...> · #131 ·
I goofed
tried on never had out to I'm ashamed to admit that I should have read the FAQ more carefully. I'm running under Gnome and Sawfish. I tried it on a KDE desktop and all was well. Then I changed themes
By knobmaker <knobmaker@...> · #130 ·
New file uploaded to xephem
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the xephem group. File : /xephem-3.5.1.tar.gz Uploaded by : kg5rg <perry@...>
By xephem@... · #129 ·
Re: segfaults
If you fire up your browser and go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xephem there is a section called "files". You can put the patches there and anyone that needs them can download them. -- John Perry
By John Perry <perry@...> · #128 ·
Re: segfaults
knobmaker writes: John Perry writes: I see the crashes on Redhat 7.1 as well. It's a timing problem, so it depends on the speed of your system and what else the X server is doing and so forth, but
By Akkana <akkana@...> · #127 ·
liblx200
In the last version of Xephem the liblx200 code was changed. This is an add-in that lets Xephem control and Meade LX-200 scope. A bug was introduced into that version. You will need liblx200 v0.8.1 to
By mmouse1001 · #126 ·
Re: segfaults
Wow! I'm running Redhat 7.2. I ran xephem all over the place on 7.1 also without any problems. Now that I think about it, I have never had any problems with xephem until I loaded RedHat 7.2 and that
By John Perry <perry@...> · #125 ·
segfaults
I installed the latest xephem on Redhat 7.1, and for a day all was well. Then it started segfaulting and dumping core every time I tried to open a planetary view, other than moon and earth. Any ideas?
By knobmaker <knobmaker@...> · #124 ·
Re: Re : get rid of ISS-912
Len Philpot writes: Hi, I tried, but it doesn't work for me, it wont' let me click undefined, it insists on staying an eart sat... There has to be a simple permanent solution I know. Esmail -- Esmail
By Esmail Bonakdarian <esmail@...> · #123 ·
Re : get rid of ISS-912
If it's one of the XYZ objects, just go to Date, Search, ObjXYZ, select the object and click Undefined, the OK. That should remove it from the XYZ list. --
By Len Philpot <len@...> · #122 ·