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Old 08-01-2005, 11:28 AM
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Starkler (Geoff)
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Thumbs up fantastic freeware addon for Cartes Du Ciel

For those of you that use Cartes Du Ciel (freeware star chart program), there is a great freeware addon called rtgui . (It also works great on its own).

Rtgui allows you to sort objects by by just about any parameter you can name and list those objects . Then by clicking on an object, CDC opens up a chart for that object and can even drive a motorised goto scope right to it !

Sample output for Iceman last night:

Galaxies brighter than mag 10, greater than 30 degrees elevation at 11pm tonight.

M77
ngc55
ngc247
ngc253
ngc300
ngc1291
ngc1316
ngc7793

I only just found out about this the other day, and now CDC does everything I could ask it to, and all for $0 !

Cartes Du Ciel
RTGUI

Hope somebody finds this useful. I give it a rating of four bananas


Iceman , if you read this do you think we should have a separate section for software ?

Last edited by Starkler; 22-08-2005 at 06:17 PM.
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