Starry Night 5 - McNaughts Comet

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Ummm.
Maybe right click and delete the comets on the FIND list then reopen Starrynight?
Good luck.

This is all I have in my comet.txt
McNaught 10.0 0.0 1.000011 0.170741 267.4146 155.9780 77.8371 2454113.2983 2454200.5 10.0 C/2006 P1 MPC 57947

[matt]

Yep

That's all I had in my comet.txt

I also have a comets.txt.old file?????????

I've now returned my text folders to how they were, before this experiment

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

The comets.txt.old is the original one that came with the program, before you updated your comets. The program automatically saved it for you.
You'll also have asteroids.txt.old

[matt]

It's weird jjj

When I click on Find and then click to open the comets... there's a bunch of 'em in there and a bunch of 'em missing including McNaught

[dcnicholls]

Sounds like a visit to the SN support forum might be in order! (See earlier post).

DN

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I don't know what's happening with it Matt.
It's some sort of glitch.
The only thing I can think of now is to uninstall Starrynight and reload it.
Get the comet updates then follow what I did to get mine up and running.
Did you get your copy of Enthusiast from Netguide Magazine like I did?

[BLiTZWiNG (Trent)]

I don't even have a prefs file.. I tried installing it again on my new machine now I have 2 folders lol.. I just left it at default settings to install too... wierd. I'm running the digital download version of sne5.

I could get halleys to appear, but I had to magnify on it. On my other machine I can get it to appear without magnify...

GO FIGURE!

[dcnicholls]

Don't forget to turn off daylight when viewing comets in SN. Too bright a sky and they suddenly disappear

I have SNPro Plus, and it has no Prefs.txt file.

DN

[matt]

David...

No offence, but that's a no brainer

[CoombellKid]

Matt, have you tried via the "Find" tab on the left. Use the "contains"
option to find objects whose name contains "c/2006 p1". It should show
up. You can restore the comet.txt file by using the update Comets, Astroriods...etc
it will overwrite any changed file with the updated one from SN website.
So if you have manually added anything it will be overwritten.

jjjnettie, no need to delete all of the entries just move comet McNaught
entry to the top of the list. Then restart SN

regards,CS sunny days

[CoombellKid]

DN,

If your are running Win XP try,

C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\LocalSettings\Application Data\Imaginova Canada\Prefs\Pro Plus

Originally Posted by dcnicholls

Don't forget to turn off daylight when viewing comets in SN. Too bright a sky and they suddenly disappear

I have SNPro Plus, and it has no Prefs.txt file.

DN

[BLiTZWiNG (Trent)]

Originally Posted by CoombellKid

DN,

If your are running Win XP try,

C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\LocalSettings\Application Data\Imaginova Canada\Prefs\Pro Plus

Kewl, I found the prefs for Enthusiast there. Changed max comets to 500 and... nothing!

must be time to bug Imaginova...

[BLiTZWiNG (Trent)]

hmmm... after reinstalling the program yet again, this time "update comets" worked and now I have mcnaught! well.. McNaught-Hughes (130P) anyway... it's 3.5 au's away though...

:/

[matt]

Originally Posted by CoombellKid

Matt, have you tried via the "Find" tab on the left. Use the "contains"
option to find objects whose name contains "c/2006 p1". It should show
up.

Rob

I can't find a "contains" option in the Find function.

How do I invoke it

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

[QUOTE=CoombellKid;

jjjnettie, no need to delete all of the entries just move comet McNaught
entry to the top of the list. Then restart SN

[/QUOTE]


LOLOL
You're so right Rob.

[CoombellKid]

Matt,

What version do you have? I have SNPro Plus 6.0.3 maybe it one of those
features purely for Pro Plus users.

Anyways, if you do like I suggested to jjjnettie, that is move the comet
McNaught entry to the top of the list and then restart SN. It should appear
first on the list. But remember if you update again the file will be overwritten.

hope this helps

regards,CS sunny days

[matt]

Hi Rob

Sorry to take so long to get back to you.

I am running Enthusiast 5.

I followed your advice and moved McNaught to the top of my comet.txt list and hooray!!! It's there.

Thanks mate

[CoombellKid]

Actually you took 4 minites lol

btw, np's : ) I'm just waiting for the bugger to head into southern skies.
I brought a pair of Andrews bino's 20x80 triplets especially for this comet.
Just need to talk the missus into being the new mount lol... not likely

regards,CS sunny days

[matt]

By "taking so long" I meant in letting you know the solution you posted much earlier has actually worked.

It solved my problem much earlier today, based on the info you gave jjj

[CoombellKid]

Cool, np's : )

regards,CS sunny days