Virtual Telescope ReferenceGeneral Gregory Krohne http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/#Telescope zeakz1d02@sneakemail.com A star map for a given time, date, and aiming point (celestial coordinates). You can also aim at a named planet, star, constellation, or other object in the sky.
Switches:
/right_ascension|ascension|longitude - hours, minutes, seconds or decimal degrees
/declination|latitude - degrees, minutes, seconds or decimal degrees
/field|view|fov:degrees - field of view
/date|universal:[date,time] - date/time in universal format
/julian:number - date/time in Julian format
/image|size - Image width/height in pixels
/colour|color:[colour|color|black|white|night|red]
/aim_at:name - Aim at first matching object name
/planet:name
/constellation:name
/deep_sky:name - Deep sky objects, like galaxies and nebulae
/nonstellar|messier:name - The M# non-stellar objects
/meteor|shower:name
/star:name
/comet:name
Examples:
virtel 0 90 45
- pointed at Polaris, which is due North
virtel /right:6h45m9.6s /dec:-16d42m34s /fov:20d
- Sirius, the dog star
virtel /right:14h24m /dec:-10d30m /date:[2000-01-01,00:00:00]
- the Moon at the turn of the century
virtel /const:cass /color:night /size:1024
- large, red (night vision) map of constellation Cassiopeia
virtel /aim:halley /color:color
- color map of Halley's Comet
The following applies if this file is included and distributed with Dave's Quick Search Deskbar: Copyright (c) 2002 David Bau; Distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License, Version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt) This search file was initially created on 08/19/04 at 11:13:04 by Dave's Quick Search Deskbar Search Wizard version 1.3, Copyright (c) 2002 Glenn Carr; Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2