Stellar Chart


Year:   Month:   Day:   Hour:   Minute:
Longitude: (western as -)   Latitude:   Your Time - UTC:  h
name='hor' value='True'> Horizon view instead of an all-sky map? Then Azimuth from S:
name='obj' value='True'> Include some star names and deep-sky objects?
save settings    name='mydefault' value='True'> use my saved settings

Another option is to use your own command line (ev. name='override' value='True'> overriding all previous data):

(`?' gives help). 

";
 echo system(EscapeShellCmd("/home/jhollan/bin/".$para) .
  "| sed -r 's/>/\>\;/g ; s/ 
";
 echo 
'
 The result you got from the programme 
map_bsc 
 with a command line: 
' ;
  echo EscapeShellCmd($para)  ;
  echo "
 " ;
  echo "can be downloaded as an easy-to-edit postscript file 
  map.eps, a larger pdf got from it " ;
  echo system("/usr/bin/epstopdf map.eps") ;
  echo "map.pdf or a low-quality bitmap " ;
  echo system("/usr/bin/gs -sOutputFile=map.png -sDEVICE=pngmono -g1393x1044 \
               -dNOPAUSE -q -c '2 2 scale (map.eps) run quit' ") ;
# it would be preferrable to take the dimensions from the bounding box 
# and multiply them by two, but I don't know how.
  echo "map.png." ;
?>