Hi Joe, On 28 Mar 2009, at 23:12, Joe Bauman wrote:
Patrick, That sounds exciting. I guess we could put it on an external hard drive -- is that right?
Yes. You take him your drive and he'll copy it at no charge. Or he'll sell you a 500 GB drive with the catalog already on it for $100 if you pick it up.
What is used to see the images? Is there a special viewer?
It's not a picture type catalogue. Rather it's used in conjunction with planetarium software and the software plots the stars on the virtual sky.
(PS: I gather no telescope class tomorrow!)
I've been holding off making the announcement but now that you ask I guess I'll make it official: Class postponed. Of course the bad weather is all because I just got word that my plane (complete with its new, more powerful engine) is ready to fly again after weeks of being down. So now the weather closes in so I can not look at or fly in the sky...