BlackWidow
03-02-2014, 04:38 PM
I have just made avaliable a new stern file for Alignmaster with better names in the star list. Thanks to Peter_4059 who first added extra stars to the list I have made some additional changes..
On most nights I use Alignmaster to polar align my scope. When it gives me the star list I use my Ipad with Redshift or Starwalk to find the stars in the sky. However some of the star names do not come up in Starwalk so I am always looking them up on Google with somtimes frustrating results... Stars like Elnath, Girtab, Mimosa etc were diffucult to find and just added extra time to my alignment... Not all of use can remember star names so I just had to sort the problem out so it was faster.
Was simple enough, just the time to get it done. I looked up every star in the star list of Alignmaster to see if it would come up in StarWalk and if it didn't I would find its other name that did and changed it...
Now for those that would like stars to show up in Alignmaster that also can be searched for in StarWalk and Redshift you need this file..
Just replace the file in the Alignmaster directory called sterne with the one I have provided.. Keep a copy of your original file.. On most computers you will need to go into c: drive, Program files (86) and into the Alignmaster directory. You will see the stern file.. Just cut and paste it to another location to save it and then copy my file in it's place...
That's it your done... Enjoy :thumbsup:
With the greatest of thanks to Peter_4059 for his original work.
Regards
Mardy
On most nights I use Alignmaster to polar align my scope. When it gives me the star list I use my Ipad with Redshift or Starwalk to find the stars in the sky. However some of the star names do not come up in Starwalk so I am always looking them up on Google with somtimes frustrating results... Stars like Elnath, Girtab, Mimosa etc were diffucult to find and just added extra time to my alignment... Not all of use can remember star names so I just had to sort the problem out so it was faster.
Was simple enough, just the time to get it done. I looked up every star in the star list of Alignmaster to see if it would come up in StarWalk and if it didn't I would find its other name that did and changed it...
Now for those that would like stars to show up in Alignmaster that also can be searched for in StarWalk and Redshift you need this file..
Just replace the file in the Alignmaster directory called sterne with the one I have provided.. Keep a copy of your original file.. On most computers you will need to go into c: drive, Program files (86) and into the Alignmaster directory. You will see the stern file.. Just cut and paste it to another location to save it and then copy my file in it's place...
That's it your done... Enjoy :thumbsup:
With the greatest of thanks to Peter_4059 for his original work.
Regards
Mardy