When I invert my FOV the Aperture contol becomes difficult to re-size. I have to un-invert or turn everything else in field off so that when I right click on...
Hi Larry, Ouch. Nice catch... as soon as I read your post, I slapped my forehead, looked at the code, and fixed the problem. Total elapsed time was about...
Hi Bill, is it possible to made an update service via internet about the position of the "Great Red Spot" on Jupiter? I know, that the data of its position can...
Hi Oliver, As Denis has mentioned, you can set this value by right-clicking on Jupiter, then Display, then Options. However, great minds are working ...
Hi Bill, hi Denis, ops, I have forgotten that this setting is already available at "options". If everything is set, I have a look at "options" in a very few...
Dear friends! Greetings from Siberia! Can anybody help me with Charon properly command line? I have the almost whole G8 on harddrive installed (c:\guide8\)....
S.E.Guryanov
astron@...
Apr 18, 2005 8:58 am
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Hi Sergey, Hmmmm... I think the problem is that you're running Charon in a separate folder. It does expect to run from within the same folder as Guide. You...
Hi Peter, A late reply to: "...Does anyone know of an x-ray catalogue suitable for Guide 8?" I'm not much of an expert on what's out there for X-ray...
Hi folks, Giuliano Pinto pointed out that there were some mistakes in the file I uploaded for display of RASS (ROSAT All-Sky Survey = X-ray data) a few days...
Bill, Strange behavior with the DSS/Real Sky images. With RS images from Guide 8 cd, those will turn on/off normally and control the contrast and intensity is...
I'm having a similar problem today. The DSS/Real Sky Image apparently downloaded but it doesn't show. When I change view magnifications it flashes for a...
Hi Pete, Denis, Yup, you're right. I introduced a bug with the latest version. The FITS images _do_ load up, but are often displaced by a degree or so. I...
Bill, I have tested the new version for DSS images. Some of my .fits load but others did not. They all loaded just fine in RealSky program. I tested over 25...
Hi Bill. I downloaded your Beta upgrade and it appears to work just fine on the one image I was trying to figure out - that of a listed non- double star being...
Hi guiders, ... I found prediction of occunlations by Pluto and Charon during 2000-2009. It was on The Astronomical Journal 120 (2000 Sep.) that was updated ...
Masaki Kouda
fp6m-kud@...
May 1, 2005 11:25 am
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This will appear in Go To... Comet. However, be warned: it's currently down at mag 22.3, so unless you have set the limiting magnitude for comets to be...
... Thanks Bill. This magnitude setting was my problem as I only had it at mag 20. Not much of a comet now but this will change big time next year. Mike H....
Hello all, You should ignore the elements for 73P that Guide currently displays in 2006. The 3 fragments will be separated by about 40 degrees of sky! I've...
Hi all, On Saturday night at about MAY08HRS0601UT the suspected binary asteroid 171 Ophelia will occult TYC 1405-01193-1 (unfortunately ~mv11.7) for observers...
What is the best way to get large chunks of the USNO B Catalogue? I was thinking of setting Guide to about 180 degrees and telling it to get the "B" stars...
I have encountered the following problem with printing of Guide 8.0 finding charts under Windows XP: If a compare the printouts of the same field (1 degree...
... PCL- ... need ... prints ... Werner, Greetings. I have problems printing black and white charts of deepsky objects at level 8 and above. Guide8 just...
Sorry for the OT. If anyone is interested in 5acres within the Chiefland Astronomy Village proper please respond to me for details. Thkx...joe :) 5acres,...
Hi Pat, Problem here is that B1.0 is about 80 GBytes in its raw format, and considerably longer in the text format in which it's provided over the Internet....
Hi Werner, My guess would be that some setting is different in Guide between the two computers. To test this out, could I ask that you e-mail me the file...
Thanks, Bill. Let me try my luck with the Guide Group here. Is there any user who has a copy of the B1.0 data? I would be willing to buy a 100+ GB drive and...