I know this has been addressed before, but I have not been able to find it in the archives. When you reinstall Guide 8, what files should you backup in order...
Guide 8 shows the open cluster NGC 6281 in Scorpius to be almost 3 degrees in diameter. Most references I can find show it to be around 30 minutes in...
Hi All, I Bill, Some years ago, a blue horizon have been added, fading from ground into the black of the sky. As long as I've seen, this feature is included in...
My astronomy hobby has been pretty much in the box for the last year while the wife and I searched for a new home so some corrsion has accumulated between the...
Dave, click on the 'display' drop down menu at the top of the screen and then click on legend. There is a box RA/DEC that needs to be checked. On my setup...
Dave, Go to "Display" then "Legend." In Legend check "RA/Dec." Julian ... From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of...
Hi Bertrand, Quickest way to decrease the brightness of the blue horizon: right-click on it. You'll get a dialog box that says "Horizon", with the usual...
Hi Tom, "...Why is [NGC 6281] shown so large?" At the time, the NGC-IC database from Wolfgang Steinicke showed it as having a diameter of 200 arcminutes....
Hi Bill, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, it's a question of my poor english. I was not speaking of the horizon "line", but the horizon "band", which is...
Thanks Bill for your reply and your explanations. I've been able to do some modifications which turn the horizon tint into a more realistic feature such as...
Hello, My name is Martin and I am in Sydney Australia. I have had Guide8 for a few months now and it is working just fine, However, I am having some...
Hello Martin. I'm Kouda, live in Japan, and not so good for English (^_^; To edit Horizon Objects, see "horizon.dat" file. It gives explanations details of...
Masaki Kouda
fp6m-kud@...
Jul 7, 2005 10:53 pm
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Thank you Kouda. Your English is just fine. Masaki Kouda <fp6m-kud@...> wrote: Hello Martin. I'm Kouda, live in Japan, and not so good for English...
Hello Martin, ... first make shure that the legend is on: |DISPLAY| |LEGEND| |SHOW LEGEND|. Then look for COMPASS, this item should be marked. Now you can...
I posted this message a week ago but got no response. Does anyone have some ideas for enlarging the fonts in the help and star dialogue boxes? Thanks, Bob...
Hi Martin, Sounds as if you'd like to toggle from Guide's default mode, where celestial north is at the top of the chart, to an alt/az mode, where the...
... Sorry Bob, I don't have an answer to your problem. But I think it would be very useful if changing font sizes and types was possible individually for each...
Hi Bill, I (finally!) upgraded to a new computer and installed Guide 8 on it and have found the following problem: I did the full install using Windows XP with...
Jim, Check the properties of your shortcut and be sure you Guide 8 directory path is in the "Start In" part of the properties dialog box. Good luck, Steve ... ...
When I originally got Guide8 many months ago I had it installed on my Sony laptop. On that machine I selected the options to show constellation figure lines...
... FWIW, I've had this same problem with Guide for some time now, on 3 different laptops (one a fairly ancient Toshiba CDT740). Don't know anything re: a fix,...
Hi, I use Guide 8 version 2005.02.23 on a laptop with an ATI IGP 340M graphical card. Blue constellations lines are drawn even over the brown colored ground. ...
Laurent Zimmermann
lzmn@...
Jul 12, 2005 8:49 am
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Hello all, I was about to provide a URL to documentation of how to alter this display. Then I realized that there is no such documentation (except perhaps...
... Hi Bill Is there a list of all of the wonderful things one can do with the "Alt-J" command? I like to use it to switch between all of the asteroids on the...
Bill, my version of Guide 8 seems to behave a little differently than what you described. When I use Alt-J to set GROUND_DRAWING=1, ecliptic and the milky way...
I noticed that Guide8 seems to show artifical satellites in earth orbit as being much brighter than do other software packages (such as Dennis Boucher's EOO,...
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