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Old 09-07-2010, 03:31 AM
Barrykgerdes
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Hi Peter
I have been working on a simple program written in Qbasic and compiled to run as a stand alone program but it is not quite ready yet.
It is designed to print out a file of NGC/IC objects:-
All accessible from a given location
All visible at a given time
Objects selectable by type, size, magnitude in a given area
etc.
In fact it can be configured to select by any parameter that is contained in the ASCII version of the NGC2000.data file.
It will print a list to the screen of up to 21 objects from the total count (also displayed) but as there could be thousands it also writes them to a text file.

Bellow is a screen shot of the program display.

Barry
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