Re: Skymap v. SkyMap

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:23:24 +0100

>Richard and Neil commented that the SkyMaps are different.  Obviously Rob's
>does sat predictions.  I took a quick look at Chris' and didn't find
>anything not in Rob's.  Rob's also seemed much easier to use.  Limiting
>this to stars and planets (no deep sky stuff),  can anyone list specific
>advantages of Chris over Rob?  Also the other way around.
>

Why exclude deep sky ?
Rob shows 1277 names and positions in deepsky.txt.
Maybe Chris has DEEP DEEP or images ?

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