I thought I'd add an explanation for those wondering about why the newer, larger catalogue seems to have less complete coverage. The Tycho catalogue (Tycho-1...
Hi Bill and Guide users. I have found what I think is a bug in the latest version of Guide8. No this is not an April fools joke! When I make an ephemeris of...
Hi Bob, This isn't a bug... it's an "incomplete feature". When I implemented the new color-coding scheme, I went through a few features and revised them a...
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Roger Pickard
rdp@...
Apr 2, 2002 9:51 pm
Hi Bill, I vaguely remember having a problem like this before but I cant get Guide 8 to show NSV(S) stars much beyond 14000 or so, but they are there! NSVS...
Hi Roger, Stars with numbers under 15000 are "real" NSV stars from the original catalog. Those with greater numbers are "supplement" stars from the NSV...
I like the grids that show on the planets and their moons, but at times would like to turn them off. I know I can toggle on/off for each individual body, but...
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Roger Pickard
rdp@...
Apr 3, 2002 12:36 pm
Hi Bill, Sorry, I didn't explain my problem very well. I was trying to "Go to" these NSVS stars via the NSV toolbar shortcut. I can now to it through the...
Dear Bill, after upgrading today to MAXIM/DL-CCD 3.06 I can't start Guide8 anymore. It always gives immediately an error message (something about writing into...
Hi Roger, Point taken. I've modified the "Go To NSV" function so that, when fed a number in the NSVS range, it handles it properly. (The display of the two...
Hi Bill, would it be possible to implement a shortcut to move Guide by small increments in RA and Decl. With the mouse pointer (especially on a laptop) it's a...
Hi Josch, Take a look in STARTUP.MAR for this line: 75 panning 0.500000 which tells Guide that, when the cursor keys are hit, it should pan by half a screen...
Hi, Bill, Here is something I would love to see on an update. I frequently set my "aperture" circle to 5 degrees to simulate my finder scopes FOV. It would be...
Is there a way to delete an entry from a user-defined overlay? I "typoed" one of my entries and would like to fix it. Is there a way to do so? Thanks, Steve...
Roger, about "moving" the aperture circle: I suppose something similar could be said for moving the CCD frame and possibly some others. I suppose something...
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Roger Pickard
rdp@...
Apr 4, 2002 6:19 pm
Hi Bill, Thanks for the modified NSV function. I look forward to the update being posted. Cheers, Roger...
Dear Bill, thanks for the quick answers. Indeed re-installing Guide into another dir solved the problem. I just copied then the newly installed files from that...
Hi Roger, May I humbly sugest that the precedent answer from Bill, to Josch, would apply for you. If you change the increments, you can move around 5 deg at a...
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lourencon
lourencon@...
Apr 6, 2002 11:29 pm
Hi Bill, In the Guide 8 the asteroids are represented by the symbol "X"; how can I change to another symbol type? R.Lourencon [Non-text portions of this...
Hi Romualdo, Edit the file GUIDE.DAT and add a line such as (for examples) one of the following: ASTEROID_SYM=+16; ASTEROID_SYM=d16; ASTEROID_SYM=b16;x24; ...
... As Spock would say. "interesting" Bill is going to have to answer this one for a full explanation as to why guide takes a longer time to calculate the...
Sorry the next to last line on my previous message should Be: Why this occurs between JD 2453499.99922 and JD2453499.99923 is a mystery. Too many "9"s Bob...
Hi Stephen, I've been asked about this one a few times now, which means I really ought to post a reply on the FAQ. Which I've just done; the following now...
Bill I have seen some recent references to comet Ikeya-Zhang and was not finding it in the Guide 8 database, so I followed the instructions, downloaded...
Hi,
I just wanted to plot the VERY accurate position of northern pole for the current date.
I changed in RA/DEC format the equinox to "current date" and...
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H.Luethen
fb4a042@...
Apr 8, 2002 6:18 am
Hi Jost, If you use the Settings/RA-Dec format dialog box, this will only change the RA/Dec display in the legend, but not the grid itself. The point is that...
Jost Jahn <kingkong59de@...> wrote: [...] ... Two steps required. Using English language menus they are: Display -> Ticks, Grids, etc. -> Grids -> change...
Hi Paul, I wish to do the same.. please, give me the site where I can get the info... off site might be better.. lemieuxetassocies@... thanks a ... ...
Yet another interesting, useless thing you can do: if you set the epoch for the grids to be 'D' (i.e., epoch of date), then set up animation (in "proper...
