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
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John Perry <perry@...>
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#141
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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
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xephem@...
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#140
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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
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Cor Bosman <cor@...>
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#139
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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.
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ecdowney2002 <ecdowney@...>
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#138
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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
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corbosman <cor@...>
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#137
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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
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ecdowney2002 <ecdowney@...>
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#136
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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
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graemecoates <graemecoates@...>
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#135
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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
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ecdowney2002 <ecdowney@...>
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#134
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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
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rcj559 <rcj05@...>
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#133
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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"
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graemecoates <graemecoates@...>
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#132
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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
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ecdowney2002 <ecdowney@...>
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#131
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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
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knobmaker <knobmaker@...>
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#130
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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@...>
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xephem@...
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#129
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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
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John Perry <perry@...>
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#128
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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
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Akkana <akkana@...>
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#127
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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
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mmouse1001
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#126
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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
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John Perry <perry@...>
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#125
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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?
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knobmaker <knobmaker@...>
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#124
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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
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Esmail Bonakdarian <esmail@...>
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#123
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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. --
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Len Philpot <len@...>
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#122
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