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What's an alignment list? (:-))

EQMOD is the way to go...

.... unless you are in the field with no laptop (or equiv.)

Glad to help.

Phil

Here you go. Alphabetical list of all stars over mag. 4 and their constellations.

Luke,

I am a Unix man at heart - just shoved the 3.27 firmware through my windows version of the Emacs editor. The star names are in plain text; here they are :) :-

stars.txt

Go 4 it, Luke...

I have to say, the skycharts came in handy over the years... don't use them much nowadays as I use EQMod with the EQ6... planetarium makes up for it all

Phil.

If you are a member of the EQ6 Yahoo group, a guy called Mike McRoberts created a PDF with star charts containing all the alignment stars along with a list of the actual alignment stars....

I printed them off (1 per page) & laminated them - purfik!

Yahoo EQ6 group -> Files -> Skyscan Alignment Star Charts

The readme is (the download link is no longer available, I'm afraid - join the group):

These are some star charts I have made that show the location of all of the EQ6

alignment stars. I made it for my own use and decided to share with the group.

There is an index with a complete list of the stars and a reference to the chart

the star is on. The charts and index make finding an alignment star easy,

especially if it throws up the name of a star and you don't know where that star

is or if it is useful to you for the alignment.

The file is too big to upload. Download the charts from here -

http://www.amateur-astronomy.org/Filez/SkyScanStarCharts.zip

Print them out, along with the index, then laminate them to use at your scope.

If anyone wants ready made laminated copies them email me at

antispam.m@ukonline.co.uk and i'll sort something out.

Enjoy!!

Mike McRoberts - 2005

Phil.