stevecoe
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Howdy folks;
I may be looking for the impossible, but I am going to ask because you guys are soooo smart;-)
I am looking for a piece of freeware or shareware that is a calendar in format but will tell the Sunrise, sunset, Moonrise, Moonset along with when is Labor Day or Easter.
I am tired of having an astrnomical program for ephemeris info and a printed calendar for information of everyday things.
Does that exist?
Thanks;
Steve Coe
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astrokido
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Reged: 06/09/08
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There's LunCal, I've never tried it.
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Oleg Astro
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DOS freeware Planeph 4.1 from ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/VI/87
The program PLANEPH is an executable DOS program for PC which computes the most usual ephemeris of planets between 1900 and 2100.
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SabiaJD
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The software NightCal is close to your requirements.
http://www.nightcal.co.uk/
It lacks the information concerning holidays. I have looked for a similar calendar in the past, will re-examine other software that my be of help to you.
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John D. Sabia
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stevecoe
Reged: 04/24/04
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Loc: Arizona, USA
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Kido and Oleg;
These programs do not have the usual calendar information that I am looking for along with the astronomical information. I want the phase of the moon, rise and set times, along with the date of Easter or Labor in the US for years to come. I said I want it all, and that may not be available.
Thanks for looking;
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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astrokido
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Are you looking only for offline software? There may be something like that on the web, especially if you wander into astrology. I have plans for adding such a calendar to my skyatlas website, but it's kind of low on the priorities list right now.
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stevecoe
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Kido;
Yes, I am looking for offline. Being able to use it out in the field when no hooked up the Internet is exactly what I need. I do hope you decide to take it on rather soon, I would love to beta test for you.
Thanks;
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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Barry C
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Reged: 04/15/08
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I want the phase of the moon, rise and set times, along with the date of Easter or Labor in the US for years to come. I said I want it all, and that may not be available.
If you use a PDA or smartphone you can run Astromist, which will give all your lunar info. The PDA calendar will give you the holidays...
Barry
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Lamb0
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 I believe you are looking for the Observer's Calendar published by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.  It isn't free, it's not software - it's a wall calander with gorgeous images, chock full of information, and Canadian and U.S. holidays are included. 
John 
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Michael Morris
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Why not use Nightcal and simply write in the dates or Easter/labour day? If you want to do it electronically, Nightcal calenders can be saved in BMP, jpg or png formats and you could add a notation for these holidays in a graphics program.
The dates for Easter are easy to work out.
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the Full Moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox (March 20th for the next few years.)
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Lamb0
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A paper calander is far more useful. Meetings and appointments can be scribbled, as well as birthdays, etc. for the whole family to see and plan around, and batteries not required. The info included with the calander is extremely helpful - and the images are gorgeous!
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SabiaJD
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A paper calander is far more useful. Meetings and appointments can be scribbled, as well as birthdays, etc. for the whole family to see and plan around, and batteries not required. The info included with the calander is extremely helpful - and the images are gorgeous!
NightCal is a printable calendar and very useful.
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John D. Sabia
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astrokido
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I do hope you decide to take it on rather soon, I would love to beta test for you.
It's always nice to have interested users for beta testing, thanks for the support. Except that what I actually meant in my previous short message is that I have plans for an online web calendar, but not for an offline software version. Beta-testing usually applies to software applications. Websites don't really have beta-testing since they're really always under development, they also require routine maintenance and improvements. It's fun stuff, I may get to my web calendar after a few other current projects.
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stevecoe
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Well, it would appear that what I am looking for does indeed not exist. I think you for your input and I hope that someone, someday writes a program that will do the task I am looking for. Until that time I will just buy a paper calendar and write on the dates I need.
Clear skies to us all;
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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Michael Morris
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Have you looked at AstroMeeus?
http://astrotips.com/Downloads-index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-62-ttitle-AstroMeeus.phtml
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Michael Morris
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Orion 80ED
ETX 90 (Grab 'n' Go)
Observatory Almira Observatory Website
Co-author of NightCal Astronomical Observing Calendar Software http://www.nightcal.co.uk
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stevecoe
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AstroMeeus does not have the dates of traditional holidays and I can not see a way to add them.
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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Richard Hendrix
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Reged: 08/02/06
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Loc: Jacksonville, Florida
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Quote:
I am looking for a piece of freeware or shareware that is a calendar in format but will tell the Sunrise, sunset, Moonrise, Moonset along with when is Labor Day or Easter.
I am tired of having an astrnomical program for ephemeris info and a printed calendar for information of everyday things.
Hi Steve,
I'm a little late to this party but I just ran across some software at Sourceforge.net called gSky Digest. It resides in the system tray has quite a bit of information in it. Sunset, sunrise, conjunctions, moon phases, librations latitude and longitude, astronomical dusk & dawn, civil dawn & dusk, etc. It provides information on the planets etc. It doesn't allow any printing nor does it have info on holidays but it has just about everything else! :-)
To configure the application you will need to convert your latitude and longitude to decimal latitude and longitude. It pops up a small notification when events approach. I have used it for a few days and really like it.
One other note about the software is it is written in Java so I think it can run on most machines??? It runs great on my WinXP laptop.
Also, I do not have any relationship to the author or software except I am a happy user.
hope this helps,
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Richard Hendrix
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NightSky Journal
"Every star may be a sun to someone."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Edited by Richard Hendrix (10/06/08 07:56 PM)
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Magellan
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Richard,
Thats a nice program but inputting my exact GPS in decimal format, it tells me the sun sets at 1pm in December, the sun never sets that early here, at least the 35 years I have been in existence.
There isn't much for configuration so maybe its me not converting the Latitude and Longitude.
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Jeff D
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csa/montana
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A paper calander is far more useful. Meetings and appointments can be scribbled, as well as birthdays, etc. for the whole family to see and plan around, and batteries not required. The info included with the calander is extremely helpful - and the images are gorgeous!
NightCal is a printable calendar and very useful.
I'm another fan of NightCal.
NightCal
I absolutely love it. I'm now studying the moon, & the book I'm using has the days/things to look at; NightCal numbers the moon's days, so it's very easy to use the Calendar with the book.
This little program is chocked full of info on the printable calendar.
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Carol
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Richard Hendrix
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Quote:
Richard,
Thats a nice program but inputting my exact GPS in decimal format, it tells me the sun sets at 1pm in December, the sun never sets that early here, at least the 35 years I have been in existence.
There isn't much for configuration so maybe its me not converting the Latitude and Longitude.
Hi Jeff D.
I agree there is not much of a config panel. But for giggles I googled Dartmouth, NS Canada and choose Graham Corner the area lat and long. I used this web site to get a decimal conversion and came up with 44.678297N 63.561867W. I entered that into gSky and it gave me sunset at 335pm on Dec.18. Is that correct for your area?
If there still is a problem maybe a note to the developer would get a fix for it?
hope this helps,
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Richard Hendrix
Antares 105mm f/9.5 Elite Series Refractor
AstroTelescopes 102mm f/7 Refractor
Orion SkyView Pro 8" Intelliscope
Orion Scenix 10x50 Binoculars
Zhumell SuperGiant 20x80 binoculars
NightSky Journal
"Every star may be a sun to someone."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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