Using "any" ephemeris data, preferably topocentric, you don't need to hand-plot them. Your sky-chart program may allow user data - Rob Matson's SkyMap does (file deepsky.txt) I took Horizon data for 51N, 2W in decimal angles, converted RA to decimal hours in Excel, and arranged the columns to fit deepsky.txt : ... "3-30 20:00","3-30 20:00",14.15444067,-10.63205,14 "3-30 21:00","3-30 21:00",14.18355733,-10.85656,14 "3-30 22:00","3-30 22:00",14.21055867,-11.08028,14 "3-30 23:00","3-30 23:00",14.23567667,-11.30145,14 "3-31 00:00","3-31 00:00",14.25928467,-11.5184,14 "3-31 01:00","3-31 01:00",14.28187267,-11.7297,14 "3-31 02:00","3-31 02:00",14.30402,-11.93427,14 ... -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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