2024-01-25, 08:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-01-25, 09:07 PM by EmeraldHillsSkies.)
Now it's my turn to ask you to humor me. : ) Would you forgive me just long enough for me to show you an Astroplanner interpretation of Phil Harrington's Cosmic Challenge list?
![[Image: astroplanner-view_of_Cosmic_Challenge_associations3.png]](https://brigada.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/astroplanner-view_of_Cosmic_Challenge_associations3.png)
(Rats. Why won't that show up well. It's so ugly. We can't even see all the groupings in this browser view. If you would please, right-click then "save as" that picture on your own machine - then observe it using any imaging software on your computer. Then it will show up well I think.)
See how Harrington has grouped several objects as one "listing" in his list. Sadly, we, the readers, have no control over that. We just know that these were groupings that Harrington observed in nature - and he talks about all these objects in the same chapter of his book. How do we show these groupings, Greg?
And I'm not comparing Astroplanner to SkyTools. I'm just saying, "Harrington's book is our list. How can we reflect that reality in SkyTools, brother?" Obviously, I think I've come to believe that the catalogue in SkyTools is better... and the solution SkyTools has for the atlas is better than a script that connects AstroPlanner with Stellarium. So I'm here - trying to make this work. But ... please... help me figure out how we can present this reality?
(Rats. Why won't that show up well. It's so ugly. We can't even see all the groupings in this browser view. If you would please, right-click then "save as" that picture on your own machine - then observe it using any imaging software on your computer. Then it will show up well I think.)
See how Harrington has grouped several objects as one "listing" in his list. Sadly, we, the readers, have no control over that. We just know that these were groupings that Harrington observed in nature - and he talks about all these objects in the same chapter of his book. How do we show these groupings, Greg?
And I'm not comparing Astroplanner to SkyTools. I'm just saying, "Harrington's book is our list. How can we reflect that reality in SkyTools, brother?" Obviously, I think I've come to believe that the catalogue in SkyTools is better... and the solution SkyTools has for the atlas is better than a script that connects AstroPlanner with Stellarium. So I'm here - trying to make this work. But ... please... help me figure out how we can present this reality?