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...
Hi Arturo, I All, I've successfully downloaded your new GEONAMES.DAT file, and replaced it in my Guide 8 directory, and more precisely in the GEO directory. ...
Oops! Maybe Bill can tell us what the correct way to replace the GEONAMES.DAT file is... I tried to use the EGEO_ERR.DAT file with "Ignore GEONAMES", but that...
Thanks very much, Arturo, for your fast and long reply. You will find here after what I've done, and what I've seen I hope these explanations will help you to...
Hi, Bertrand! It all sounds very strange! I can't imagine what's happening with the new GEONAMES.DAT. ... Guide directory" If you have the GUIDE8/CITIES...
Hi Arturo, Oops, Oops, Oops... I hav'nt been able to give you the right explanations of my trubbles, but fortunately, yourse were the good ones. So far, I...
Hi! ... I hope to have an EGEO_ERR.DAT file with the 2 million place names soon, but until then here's a hack that you can try to achieve what you want: * Open...
Hi folks, Arturo, many thanks for providing this data! I have long wanted something that would bridge the gap between the 4400-odd city names provided with...
Hi Arturo, Thanks, thanks thanks, All is perfect ! The wonderful, with the way you showed to me, is that you can open the detailed cities at a high level (i.e....
Hi Bill, Hi again Arturo, Many thanks for these improvements. They run both perfectly. Bertrand ... De : Bill J Gray À : guide-user@yahoogroups.com Envoyé :...
Hi, All! Okaaaay... as Bill predicted, my attempts to make a better CITIES dataset (2 million place names) failed miserably... I removed all duplicate entries,...
Hi all, [Guide8, WinXP Pro] I'm trying to get the exact position angle and distance from 2 objects, which where selected with the mouse (as described in help)....
Hi Harald, For 2 objects, #1 and #2, right click #1, click "ok", right click #2, click "ok", then click "INSERT" I just tried this with a pair of stars, and it...
Greetings, Yes, right click on the first object, then click OK, then right click on the second object and then click OK, then hit "Insert" on your keyboard....
Hi Christel, Yes, that works fine, but Harald wants exact distances and position angles, and this method is less precise. Right-clicking on the objects...
... It's better to ask for "precise" or "accurate" values. Exact values exist only in pure mathematics. ... Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38...
Hi everybody ! Ok, this method is actually more precise because with my method the hand, which control the mouse, can "skid" a little. Thanks for this tip. ...
Hello guide users, I encountered the following problem: while doing astrometry of comets (with Astrometrica) on my very first ccd frames (from january 1995) I...
Hi All, Can any one tell me how to create a new TDF list ? When I say "create", I do not want to say "write" a TDF file. Thanks to the support of Bill, in...
Bertrand, I think this will work. With MS WORD, save the file as xxx.txt and then rename it to xxx.tdf. I have not tried that but believe it should work for...
Hi, ... you really should use a real text editor for this, not Word. Use Textpad or UltraEdit (both shareware but worth it, and you get a decent trial period),...
Hi Stephen, Hi Ben, I must first thank you very much for your fast replies, they run both perfectly. But also, I must say that the Guide users list is...
Or,,,, you could start with an existing TDF file, copy it, rename the copy and remove/replace its contents with the new data. That way if there is specific...