[Coco] Re: off-topic, space program

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Jim

One who is frantically waveing his arms over his head. 

I have already started a project. I have whittled a star catalog down 
to about 17,000 stars magnitude 10 or brighter. And another group 
of 17,000 or so that are dimmer than magnitude 10.

Then I have a catalog of Meisseir objects, Herschel 400, and NGC 
and IC catalogs. Estimates are that I can condense this and put it 
into aobut 4 MBytes of Flash or can sit in easily in a 16 M compact 
flash/ MM card drive.

I have a a basic program written for the peeeceeee that can be 
ported to either ECB or Basic09 that will calculate the pointing 
directions for a telescope. Basically I just need to start to put 
together about six small basic programs and do some drivers for 
stepper motors or DC servos and hope to test in the next two to 
three months. 

My slow K6-2 450MHz peeeceee is running Set at home screen 
saver. Takes about 130 hrs to process a block. But better than 
nothing.

james


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> Who on this list is interested in CoCo based astronomy 
> programs and/or is working on SETI at Home.  I know Gene is, 
> but I am wondering if we could form out onw SETE at Home 
> team.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:30:50 -0600
>   Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:
> >At 04:59 PM 1/14/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> >Mars has been a source of fascination for me since I saw 
> >the first Viking lander images. I completely agree with 
> >your sentiments.  Thirty years is a long time to wait. 
> >Twenty years to return man to the moon seems a little 
> >ridiculous considering we accomplished that feat once 
> >before in a much shorter time period with more primitive 
> >technology.
> >
> >>$87 billion could have easily put us on Mars in a decade 
> >>but that's another story for another off-topic thread.
> >>Brad
> >
> >Yep, it's rather upsetting.  I just wanted to know if 
> >anybody else shared anywhere close to my opinion.  :)
> >
> >
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