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John Winfield

ACP Sky Survey App

ACP customer John Winfield announced that he has released his ACP Sky Survey Application. John says “I've had a number of good sessions gathering minor planet survey data, pulling it into Visual Pinpoint to locate minor planets automatically, plus gathering some data points for some variable stars.” This tool offers the user an automated method for data acquisition for four functions:

1) Super Nova survey
2) Minor Planet survey

3) Minor Planet follow-up
4) Stellar Light curve data capture

ACP customers can download John’s application from the ACP section of the DC3-Dreams Communication Center.

Thanks to John for all his hard work, and for sharing it with the ACP community!

Jörg Hanisch

SNFinder App

“Now, a few days after John Winfield announced the release of his ACP Survey Application, I also think that my SNFinder application is ready for an initial release.

I wrote this application to make comparing dozens of Images and detecting Super Novae or Minor Planets a bit easier.

SNFinder is specially designed to integrate with John Winfield’s ACP Survey Utility.
For this application SNFinder provides a special Tool called Survey Scanner which automatically finds new Images, blinks them with an appropriate Reference Image and archives them.”

You’ll also find instructions for downloading Jorg’s app at the DC3-Dreams Communication Center.

Thank you, Jörg!

Dick Berg

ACP and Google Earth

Dick Berg is experimenting with place-marking ACP-run observatories in Google Earth.

Here's where you can register your observatory to be included in the ACP Observatory Place- marks for Google Earth: http://acp.dc3.com/google-earth.html.

Be sure to read Dick’s comments about this project on the DC3-Dreams Communication Center. Thanks for your efforts with this, Dick! Google Earth and Google Sky are great tools.

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§ If you’re not currently a DC-3 Dreams customer, you can visit the public section to learn how people use our products. You can even post a note if you take the time to get a user name and password.

§ If you’ve bought a DC3-Dreams product, be sure to log on — this is your technical support site. In addition, you’ll meet lots of nice folks who are willing to share their ideas and experience.

Many of you have questions for Bob Denny, and you’ll get your answers faster if you post them to the Com Center than if you send an email. And others may have the same question, so this is a way to share the information with everyone. Visit the Com Center at http://forums.dc3.com/.

M27, by Jim McMillan — data was collected in May—June, and represents over 20 hours of exposures.

Comet Holmes — check out be Dick’ Berg’s animation of Comet Holmes at www.brightskies.us. Image taken 10-28-07.

Cosmic Collision Course: Milky Way— Andromeda, by Mike Reid 10-4-07 http://www.mikesastro.com/

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