Hi Bill, I have been thinking that it would be convenient to be able to edit spurious objects out of datasets. Particularly the b1.0 shows stars that aren't...
Hello :-) I am running Guide 8, Oct 2 2004 version. Looking for an occultation for e.g. Moon and Antares on Feb 4th, 2005 I get a "real" world map with zoom...
Hi Alexander, is it possible that you have set a rotation angle at menu "Display... Inversion menu... Rotation (German: Karte... Orientierung... Drehwinkel)? ...
Hello Guide users, is there a way to temporarly switch off the city names in geo mode? I only want to display the MPC stations, which are lost in the city ...
Hi Bernd, Hitting '-' will cause Guide to filter out smaller cities. Use it often enough, and all cities will vanish. Hitting '+' will reverse this effect. ...
Hi Ben, Odd you should mention this... I've recently been swapping a few private e-mails about the possibility of making a uniform system for reporting errata...
... new "download ... far, ... (missing ... It work on my system too! I have to hide my UCAC2 directory, then download UCAC2 from Vizier with "standard"...
Hello Bill, ... that's logically, the same as with the stars which I use very often. Thanks. ... Once more, thank's for this hint. Mine is from 06. Feb 2004. I...
Hi Bill, Editing the b10.dat doesn't work so well for me. I usually leave b1.0 turned off, but even so I have to purge the file from time to time to keep the...
Hi folks, I've updated the 'test' update at http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm In particular, I added the ability to import WCS images. There are also some...
Unless I am seeing things, looks like the UTC bug is gone:) Great, and thanks bill. The gps time inserter I use, outputs in UTC. So it nice to have guide show...
Hello, I produce monthly star charts from my own observing lists with all sorts of objects: galaxies, PNs, clusters and so on. To do this I wrote my own TDF...
Hi Bill, thanks for the fast update of Guide8 to read WCS images. However, I can not find in the posted version any glues how to do so. Nothing mentioned on...
Hi Josch, Sorry for the late reply on this subject! I had written up text describing how WCS images could be imported to Guide, but hadn't actually posted...
Hello Bill, I tried to show my fit-images in guide and it works fine. I am using astrometrica for astrometry and astrometrica is able to save WCS data in fit ...
Hello All, I have a problem with the program locking. It has just started recently, I could usually just turn off and the program would reboot ok next time. ...
Hi Judith, A couple of possibilities leap to mind. First, try the easy thing: grab the updated software from the Web site. This fixes an amazing array of...
Hi Bill I'm having problems using GUIDE 8 on my WinCTC with a USB to Serial converter. It worked very well with the true RS232 port but unfortunately the port...
Hy, we have a HDD with the whole USNO-A2.0 catlogue on our computer in our observatory. My question is: How can I tell Guide 8 to use the files from the HDD ...
Hi Markus, At present, I don't have a copy of USNO-B1.0, so I've not revised Guide to use it. (The data is provided on an 80 GByte hard drive.) Dunno what...
We own a copy of the USNO-B1.0. We use it for astrometry, but one of those guys here whants to use it with Guide 8 for CCD...it would be great if there is a...
I am currently running the 1 Oct. 2003 version of Guide 8 and would like to update to the latest version. However, I would also like to retain all my current...