Hi All, I wanted to thank Mike McCants for posting a number of my files on his website, including up-to-date versions of IRIDFLAR (2.1 with and without coprocessor), COLA, ALLCOLA, and the SkyMap Asteroid database and Hipparcos files. The links to IRIDFLAR 2.1, COLA and ALLCOLA can be found at: ftp://ftp.fc.net/pub/users/mikem/ SKY64.ZIP, SKY64AUX.ZIP, ASTEROID.ZIP, HIP8.ZIP, HIP8IDX.ZIP, HIP9.ZIP and HIP9IDX.ZIP are located at: ftp://ftp.fc.net/pub/users/mikem/skymap64/ If you are using HIP8 files prior to March 1999, there is an erroneous magnitude 0 star in the southern hemisphere at about 5h 24m, -60d 56m. This error was due to a blank magnitude field in the original Hipparcos database for HP #120412; unfortunately, my conversion software translated the blank as 0.0. This star has been removed in the files at Mike's site. SkyMap's asteroid database has been updated with recent minor planet orbital elements from Lowell Observatory for all known asteroids that can ever reach magnitude +12 or brighter. There are currently 1124, about half of which are small Apollo/Aten asteroids that are only detectable in amateur telescopes during near-earth encounters. There have been a few bug fixes and one or two features added since the public release of SkyMap 6.4 last year. Rather than release an intermediate version now, I'd like to make a few more additions, and then release a version 6.5 -- perhaps in a few weeks. Cheers, Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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