If you have any problems look at this thread.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2359195

I started it in April last year when I first tried to download CDC on Linux. I've run it on Windows since Vista!

 

Ok i am looking at the thread now, Ill tell you if it's a success later.

 

OK, good luck. Actually, I've just realised that I'd been running it on my old laptop that I converted from Vista to Trusty. I had no problems installing then. I don't know what the glitch was with the Lenovo laptop. It worked eventually.

 

I ordered a 'step-down' ring-adapter from New Egg. It came from the P.R. of China and had a tracking-number, so I dutifully followed it. It got here to Burlington and was OUT FOR DELIVERY. And then it said ALERT! And then it completely vanished! Gone. POIT!

I've NEVER seen that before! It just disappeared! It was only $3.91 US. As soon as my statement for the credit-card lands next month - I'll call the issuing-bank of the credit-card and have them disappear that charge (which they're very good about) from my account.

If you ever have only one credit-card, I suggest DISCOVER. They give you back 5% for your purchases. Best deal out there!

Ah well, Nebs. I'm very tempted by the Pluto-Globe myself.

 

Success CDC is install, but I don,t think it has any maps of the planets with names, so it's the virtual planet application I need to install. Ill do that another day, I am trough with installing things tonight.

@Dave In Vermont
thanks for the credit card tip perhaps they will find you step down ring eventually.. Has for the globe, i canceled mine they were too slow on shipping so I changed my mind and it's another useless thing that will take too much space. I bought a cookie monster statue 5 years ago, I can't throw it in the garbage, yet it's 100% a waste of good space.. Same thing with the globe.

See.. what the hell was I thinking?

 

CdC has the planets. But scant detail. If you want full-on Topo-Maps of the planets - Stellarium has that in Spades! It's a relatively new addition that came out (officially) in Stellarium 0.18.0. But CdC is my choice go-to for locating asteroids and dim comets from the Kuiper & Oort Belt.

Have some Mars:

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Ok

The softwares they will be usefull when i can start creating my map of mars, I only need to see 4 faces of the planet with the main features, and a few names.. This should be more then enough to look at during the observation. After I can look at the details using the softwares.

A PDF atlas would be good too, I have one for the moon which I find very good.

 

I hope everyone had a good Solstice!

 

May I presume that this take is from Sky Safari? If not, where'd you get this very nice image of the Salisbury Plains and the Zeta Reticulan artworks perched on it? It would make a great poster!

We have a few such ancient structures over here as well. Including one down the road from me in Woodstock, Vermont we call "The Troll-Hole." Only it's constructed underground! Built of stone that were fit together without so much as a millimeter as 1/20th of a millimeter of space between each other. A feat of engineering we couldn't duplicate today with all our technical advances' being tried. No one is quite sure why it was so constructed - or for the exact purpose. Maybe a bomb-shelter?

Fascinating to say the least. I spent a night in this construct. I had a downright 'spooky' feeling down inside it - and inside Yours' Truly too! We don't tell most people about it - we don't want it being overrun my either tourists, or teenager's for their partying & spray-painting.

We do know it was built before the first peoples' arrived - about 12,000 years ago from Asia - which deepens the mystery and throws one Hell of a monkey-wrench into the Natural History of the Americas' - which we call "Turtle Island."

Even as a 4 year old, I was always drawn to studying Tibet. I think this may well indicate my personal ancestorial background. But we do know we've been here for at least 12,000 years - crossing land-bridge that spanned what is called the Bering-Straights' today, though the land-bridge is long ago vanished.

 

I had a good solstice. and I have 4 days vacations in front of me with a very good sky tonight. I am planning to stay up very late, i want to break my record of observation time.

I am ready for astronomy now, the moon will be a bit strong but it's ok, many things will be visible even with that.

Astronomy!

 

The top ones are from Starry Night 7, the bottom picture is from the Android version of Google Earth.



You'll probably like my new book:




You can read this online, but I fancied the paperback.


Present for you Dave:

https://archive.org/stream/HapgoodC...aps of the ancient sea kings#page/n0/mode/2up

 

Good luck. I've just had a session on Venus, Jupiter and the Moon.

 

Being full-on nocturnal, which I've been ever since I took-up astronomy at age 4, has it's downside, too. Such as having to do some things in "Regular Business Hours" becomes a Royal PITA!*

It is, of course, my parent's fault. They took me to the Boston Museum of Science - and taking me to the Planetarium there! That was the beginning of the end for me. My awareness of my newly-minted addiction to all-things-astronomy began that night while I was asleep and entered into REM-state. There I had a vision that remains clear to me - to this day & night.....

I saw the planet Jupiter. First as a Star-like point of light. Then closer and closer, Jupiter growing in size until it filled my FOV. Then it fell toward the Earth, splashing down in my next door neighbor's little Fish Pond they had in their backyard. And it floated there, only a very small piece of it went into beneath the waterline! I made a special point of this to retain the memory. Obviously my technique worked. I still know that if one had the insanely huge body of water that would hold Jupiter - it would float! due to the density of the aliphatic-hydrocarbons that Jupiter consists mainly of, and the chemical fact that aliphatic-hydrocarbon aren't soluble in a polar-solvent. Such as water is! It's like Oil & Water salad-dressing!

This was the fatal beginning of my first foray into chemical-engineering! Other sciences soon followed. MANY more. An endless parade of them. I was considered a very weird kid. The public-school I was ordered to attend told my Mother I was mentally ill. And had to see the school's psychiatrist to try to 'cure' me of my obvious delusion of loving science. Science won-out over the public-schools' pure, unbridled stupidity.

And, to this day, I remain nocturnal! So keep going, Nebs! Staying awake at night is loads of fun! Not to mention highly educational. Some people find they learn more at night than they do in those insipid "Regular Business Hours!" I do be one of those 'weird' people.

Such as intuitively know that Jupiter would float in water!

Keep on going!


* PITA = Pain-In-The-Ass (Arse to you)

 

I reckon I'm definitely mentally ill.

 

Thank you very much, Mak! The book looks to be truly fascinating indeed! Wow!

I bought this from the 'used' section of Barnes & Noble for $2.00 plus postage - the posting is what kills you. It was a library-book. And looks to be a very complete out-of-print from 2003:

MARS Observer's Guide - Neil Bone









This should keep me going for awile! Between your contribution and the Mars' guide, I'll be set for the Summer.

Enjoy!

 

I am sorry not particpating too much with what's happening on the thread, these books looks very interesting, especially your @Dave.

I would like to collect some knowledge about the Iris Nebula.. I never had any success with that one in the past, it's a reflexion nebula..(so I guess the UHC won't work) Should I spend time on it?

 

Perhaps the question might be: "Why not?"

 

I studied the stars around it a bit and did a sketch so I can find the central star at least and spend some time dark adapting aroung that main star.. instead of searching for nebulosity.

Do you have any tips @Dave In Vermont, any observations to make my life more easier with the Iris. For instance records of success (or not) with nebula filter. I think they are ineffective.. but shall see.

 

Allright! I am leaving, the adventure has started! (Thanks for nothing )

 

Personally? No. However you might find things you can use in this paper by David Knisely of the Prairie Astronomy Club in the US Midwest:

Filter Performance Comparisons For Some Common Nebulae - by Dave Knisely.pdf