... The ancient chinese "star figures" were asterisms rather than constellations: they were small and numerous, and there were fairly large areas of the sky...
Dear Bill, I have post four files with the revised Almagest (arca3) and the 28 moon/zodiacal Chinese constellations (cina). I hope that this can start a...
I owned several copies of Guide, starting with v3 and now ending up with v8. With all of them (as far as I remember) I had the same problem under all kind of...
Hi Mischa, Um. I've not heard of this 'must install under c:\' problem. By default, Guide has always installed to a non-root folder, either c:\guide or...
Hi Bill, ... sorry, what i meant was that I observe that guide wants to be installed under c:\guide, not c:\ . When I change path, then it fails. It is likely...
sorry for my late comment. i have a multiple boot system , with amongst others, winxp and win98. in my case guide is on partition f, win98 on d and win xp on...
while looking for a sat last night, I did not see it and Guide8 (and some other apps) predicted it should be +6.6 an easy see with my scope in a +10 moonless...
Hi Paul, At present, the satellite magnitude data comes from the TLEs themselves. If you look at the element file you're using with Guide, you'll see that...
perfect, Guide8 reads the magnitude data from line0 of the TLE. great! I just ran last night's view with updated standard mag and now sat is +8.7. it was not...
Hi Dario, paul, and Bill. Dario, Thank you for introduce the Hong Kong Space Museum web site. I found Chinese 28-mantions's English names. After that, I...
Masaki Kouda
fp6m-kud@...
Jul 8, 2004 2:36 pm
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Dear Bill, I have started to make the ancient stars database for the Chinese/Almagest stars catalogue. I wish to load all the 250 chinese constellations,...
... Hi Masaki, Many thanks for your job. The file is working well. We have the proper motion problem .. I hope that Bill can help us … I wish to load all the...
I have the display set to show my local CDT time and underneath it UTC time. they are offset from each other by 2 secs, I set local time for 23:16:20 CDT ...
I have both my local (AEST) and UTC displayed in the 29 April version and they agree to one hundreth of a second. Kevin Cooper. ... -- This e-mail and any...
Hello all I thought that I had Guide synchronised on my main and observatory computer, but when I went to image 16 Cygni - classed as a calibration star) it...
Hi Lawrence, A few possibilities: (1) Text collision: perhaps some other piece of text in the area comes close enough to the star to persuade Guide not to ...
Hi Bill, I All, Although this question as not been discussed very often on the list, I would like to point out some features concerning Guide 9. Guide 8 has...
Hello, I would like to add a couple of requests for the next version. Improve on the new "back button" on the toolbar. It would be nice to return 'forward'...
Hello Bill NB data sent privately to you. Regarding the non-display of the 16 Cygni label: as reported, none of these settings were wrong although no. 2 had no...
Hi folks, I've had an inquiry from a gent using the current update to Guide. He reports that the "add text to overlay" function simply does not work, and...
Hello Bill, is it possible to add a new feature in "ephemeris items"? I think, sometimes it would be helpful if the angular diameter of an object (mainly...
Gerhard Dangl
gerhard@...
Jul 28, 2004 10:19 pm
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Hi Bill, I All, The "add text to overlay" fonction seems to work perfectly on my old laptop computer, running with W98 V4.10, and only 96MB of memory. The 29...
Hello group, I have the following problems here with Guide 8 running the 29 April 2004 version. I am interested in the asteroid occultation on Aug 1st. There...
Hi, everyone! Seems the list has been pretty slow lately... In case anyone's interested, I just put together a GEONAMES.DAT replacement file for Guide 8.0 with...
As I have reported many times, I find Guide invaluable at the scope for showing me my exact field of view. For planning purposes (imaging) I wonder whether...
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