Hi, I'm looking at a few ancient lunar eclipses with GUIDE8. When it uses the default 'full ELP' I can select a time close to the desired eclipse (say 10 Apr...
Hi Tiziano, At first look, I cannot see anything that is obviously wrong with this overlay. Could I ask you to send me a smaller one with nothing in it but...
... with ... nothing ... simpler. ... the way. ... (RGB) ... Hello Bill, I have reduced the overlay to a "one line only" file: the problem is still there! I...
... Hi all, I run Guide 8 on a macintosh G4 with OS10.2.8 and virtual PC 6 with windows98SE without any problem, although I have not had the time (nor the...
Hi Bill, With this 1 nov 2004 version (perhaps also the previous one), Guide attemps to connect to the Internet each time I start the program. What is it...
Laurent Zimmermann
lzmn@...
Nov 6, 2004 12:35 am
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Hi folks, Some translators have been busily at work. Jan Manek has supplied updated files for Czech; Masaki Kouda for Japanese; and Giuliano Pinto for...
Hi folks, I've just posted another bug fix update at the usual site, http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/guide8b.zip This fixes two bugs, neither of them probably...
Hi Laurent, The update I just posted doesn't include any fix for the Internet download problem. Unfortunately, I have almost no idea as to why this would...
Is there anyway to search the Guide datasets ? For example search for all galaxies in Pegasus with a major axis diameter greater than 3.00" ? Or all of the...
Hello Scott, ... I know of no way to do this within Guide. What I have just done is to open the "Ngc2000.dat"-file (or any other ASCII-file) in Excel and ...
Hi Scott, I don't know of a way to do this in Guide (I don't believe it to be posssible at present, although it would have been neat!), but you may use the...
Bill, ... That's exactly what happened, even without this update. Laurent...
Laurent Zimmermann
lzmn@...
Nov 12, 2004 8:38 pm
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Hi Bill and all, In the legend, the spacing between time and time zone is quite large in the basic time layout. Where can I delete the extra spaces so it...
Bill, When I look at the Sun or Moon below ground level, the horizon is distorted and showing in the upper part of the screen even at altitude of -60....
Denis
boucherd@...
Nov 15, 2004 5:10 am
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Hello Group. I've been playing with Guide 8 for a week or two. I'm into chasing asteroids, and for this purpose its pretty neat software. But I have a couple...
Hi Pete, welcome to the group! ... Yes indeed! Use the Extras | Install to hard drive... option to install whatever files you need on a regular basis, and...
Hello Pete, ... under |Extra| you can install all the stuff you need to your hard drive. In your case this should at least be all star catalouges and the ...
Hi Denis, I'd check your elevation first, then go to Settings... Projection and select Stereographic. I suggest the first because, if you set a really high...
Hi Larry, "...the spacing between time and time zone is quite large in the basic time layout. Where can I delete the extra spaces so it matches the second time...
Hi Pete, Looks as if Arild and Bernd have pretty thoroughly answered most of what you asked about... I'll just add a comment or two. By default, Guide only...
... [snip] Thanks for the info re time zone spacing, Bill. I agree, simple cosmetic changes are not worth a lot of code re-writing. I had a hunch that might be...
Bill, I may have to send you program files. My elevation is 1 meter and projection is stereographic. The ground is actually not round or straight, I get a some...
Hi Larry, You got the right item. Just save that page as 'marks.nam'. Alternatively, if your browser gives you some grief about this (Internet Exploder can...
Hi Bill, ... I d/l marks.zip and it worked fine. Thanks. I just now went back to the URL you originally sent, saved the web page, and it automatically saved...
Thanks for the help guys. Most of the problems I listed have been corrected or addressed or verified. Here's a synopsis: PROBLEM: I have downloaded everything...
--On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:20 AM +0000 Pete Peterson ... Pete, Why would you want the asteroid's name centered in the chart? That's probably where...