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Subject: Re: [M]: IDEA - Need practical application!
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon Jun 09 00:03:43 1997

At 11:39 AM -0700 6/8/97, Robin Casady wrote:
>Manoj Sood wrote:
>
>>Here is the idea:
>>
>>A Web page written in HTML obviously.
>>
>>On it are links to various astronomical objects. When click on a link you
>>scope slews to the object!
>>Who would like to write the script?. We could call the program Sky Link
>>or Sky Jump....
>>
>>I apologize to all who have already conceived this!
>
>If you have a Macintosh, take a look at the Live Sky plug-in of Starry
>Night 2.1.

Starry Night with Live Sky is indeed a way kool trick but it is the
opposite of what Manoj is thinking. Starry Night will let you set up a URL
to navigate to when you click on an object on the chart and Robin's LX200
plugin will keep Starry Night in sync with your LX200. But, AFAIK, there
is no way to get the scope to slew when you click on a link. Such a thing
ought to be easy to hack into the LX200 plugin (via appleevents) but it
might require a bit of programming (or it might just be a matter of writing
an AppleScript).

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"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)