has@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (H.A.Shaw) (09/23/87)
Does anybody have a program for producing the RA and DEC of the moon? I have the starchart porgram from the net of some time ago, so the Kepler parameters should be enough for me to generate a program. I wish to add this to the starchart software and would like to hear from the original author ( Alan Paeth, awpaeth@watcgl are you out there ??) since I have made modifications to the programs that he might like to hear about. I am, at the moment trying to modify a satilite prediction program to work with starchart. Finally are any of the catalogues (Messier or NGC for example) available in machine readable form?, because, as useful as the starchart programs are, they only show the positions of the planets, while I am interested in photography of nebulae and galaxies. I have access to the 12" Newtonian Reflector in th Physics Dept. here, and take, develop and print my own colour photographs. I am just starting in this field, but already have promising pictures of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Ring Nebula M57. When the Orion nebula system turns up as the year moves around I hope to get pitcures of that. Anybody interested?? Howard Shaw, Physics Dept. University of Kent, Canterbury, England. has@ukc.ac.uk -or- has@uk.ac.ukc -or even, if you are very old- utiutiulk M6