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stevecoe
Reged: 04/24/04
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Loc: Arizona, USA
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Howdy all;
I am just getting done with an update to the Saguaro Astronomy Club (SAC) databases. If you have any input about the deep sky, double star, red star or asterism databases then please let me know right away.
www.saguaroastro.org
I have spent much time over the past several months getting the data as clean as I can and I would like any help you can provide if you have found an error or an addition of a famous object that we missed let me know.
Thanks for your time and effort;
Steve Coe
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150mm 6" f/8 Celestron Refractor on Sirius Mount
80mmED 3" f/7.5 Orion Refractor
Author "Deep Sky Observing" Springer-Verlag
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sgottlieb
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Reged: 07/22/07
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Loc: SF Bay area
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One thing I noticed, Steve, is that the Uranometria Chart Number field still references the original charts and not the current Uranometria. So, it's not useful to anyone using the current version.
There is probably an existing program (or someone could write a short routine) to compute the new chart numbers from the given RA and Dec in the SAC database. What do you think?
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Steve Gottlieb
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Starman1
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Reged: 06/24/03
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Loc: Los Angeles
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I second Steve G's remark.
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Don Pensack
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stevecoe
Reged: 04/24/04
Posts: 2114
Loc: Arizona, USA
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I don't know if I can have that available for this release, but I will certainly keep it on the burner for a future project. I just don't know anyone with the new Uranometria. So many of the SAC members found it useful and bought the original and don't see enough difference to purchase the new one. But, if it is out that then we ought to put in the new pages.
Any real errata? That is what I am hoping for this time around, like real errors, dude;-)
Clear skies;
Steve Coe
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150mm 6" f/8 Celestron Refractor on Sirius Mount
80mmED 3" f/7.5 Orion Refractor
Author "Deep Sky Observing" Springer-Verlag
Author "Nebulae and How to Observe Them" Springer
New Canon Xt astrocamera with Hutech modification
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Olivier Biot
Amused
Reged: 04/25/05
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Loc: 51°N (Belgium)
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I don't know the timeline for publishing the new release, but I can probably provide chart numbers for Herald-Bobroff, Millennium Star Atlas and maybe even Pocket Sky Atlas.
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