2024-04-26, 06:52 PM
Hi Terry,
SkyTools 4 has lots of stars in its database with several ways to display them. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do.
First off, you can set the View Control's 'Labels' Tab in the Interactive Atlas and telescope Finder charts for the star catalogs that you want to display there like this:
Click the View button on the chart to open this dialog, select the 'Labels' Tab and choose which catalogs you want to use to name the stars on the chart. Names are applied in the order shown in the list of catalogs on the upper right (top to bottom). You can change the order of the catalogs with the little arrow buttons at the top right, just highlight a catalog & use the arrows to move it in the list.
The telescope Finder charts work in a similar manner.
You can also create an Observing List (OL) of stars using the Database Power Search (DBPS) tool accessed by Clicking the 'Add Objects' button on the Nightly Planner in SkyTools 4.
Open the DBPS tool, select the 'Stars' tab and chose the search options that you want. Here's an example search of Named Variable stars in the stellar database:
The OL results file is attached below. Using the DBPS you can build OLs of many different types of stars and restrict the OL to a particular star catalog or catalogs, if you desire. Searching by constellation is also possible as is searching within a specified distance of an object. The possibilities are nearly endless.
Hope this helps,
Phil S.
SkyTools 4 has lots of stars in its database with several ways to display them. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do.
First off, you can set the View Control's 'Labels' Tab in the Interactive Atlas and telescope Finder charts for the star catalogs that you want to display there like this:
Click the View button on the chart to open this dialog, select the 'Labels' Tab and choose which catalogs you want to use to name the stars on the chart. Names are applied in the order shown in the list of catalogs on the upper right (top to bottom). You can change the order of the catalogs with the little arrow buttons at the top right, just highlight a catalog & use the arrows to move it in the list.
The telescope Finder charts work in a similar manner.
You can also create an Observing List (OL) of stars using the Database Power Search (DBPS) tool accessed by Clicking the 'Add Objects' button on the Nightly Planner in SkyTools 4.
Open the DBPS tool, select the 'Stars' tab and chose the search options that you want. Here's an example search of Named Variable stars in the stellar database:
The OL results file is attached below. Using the DBPS you can build OLs of many different types of stars and restrict the OL to a particular star catalog or catalogs, if you desire. Searching by constellation is also possible as is searching within a specified distance of an object. The possibilities are nearly endless.
Hope this helps,
Phil S.
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