Free planner, planetarium, control program

[allan gould]

Very comprehensive planner etc. see
http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/CNebulaX.htm
Large databases etc
Allan

[programmer]

Looks great! Can't wait to get home and try it.

Side note: why oh why do astronomy websites (with some notable exceptions!) have to be so ugly Terrible backgrounds, many colours, bad contrast... gah.

[Karlsson]

Let us know what you think... I tried it for a few weeks a while ago and I found it...mmmm.... err... counter-intuitive, if not downright confusing?

But you're right - it does have a lot of data!

[programmer]

Well, not much chop so far, installing on Vista. I suspect it's having problems with Vista's new location for user specific files. It keeps popping up a dialog saying I'll have to configure file locations, but not allowing me to, going in an endless loop. I'll check it out later, but right now going to inspect the heavens

[programmer]

Tried installing on XP.. still no go. This time it lets me choose the default folders, but has an issue with a few of the choices (I left them all as default I might add). Then it crashes! Start it up again and it goes through the same process.. frustrating.

[allan gould]

Works perfectly on my XP machine

[programmer]

Originally Posted by allan gould

Works perfectly on my XP machine

oops.. forgot it was an installer job, and just copied the directory across. Embarrassing! Hopefully that'll be it.