Hi Group, What's the easiest way to create a table of sunrise and sunset times at my location for a period of one or several months? Is the technique general ...
hi Ray, I wrote a little web app which calculates sunrise/set moonrise/set and astronomical twilight to figure out the 'darkest hours' for a given location....
Hi Bill: For some reason, probably my stupidity, I cannot get asteroids to display in Guide 8. (other labels seem display fine.) I have tried various settings...
Hi Ed, Lets check the simple things first. Are you using Mpcorb? If so, check that in extras it is ticked. Otherwise it will only show built in asteroids. What...
control date of MPCORB downloaded. ... From: Alan Cahill To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [guide-user]...
Thanks Alan and Sebastiŕ: Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the problem. I have not started using MPCORB. Asteroid settings on Display/Data Shown are ...
I've always found the following web app extremely useful for that sort of data: http://imagiware.com/astro/skycalendar.cgi Just remember to enter your...
Hi Ed, It could be an indication to know if you can "Go to" an asteroid and if there are some asteroids (and/or comets) listed in the Quick info window. ...
Laurent Zimmermann
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Oct 4, 2006 10:36 am
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Hi Ed, As has been mentioned, this problem does crop up from time to time. It is addressed here: http://www.projectpluto.com/faq_curr.htm#missing_asteroids ...
This problem's been around for about a year now, and crops up from time to time on this list, with people saying they no longer have asteroids. Whether this is...
Thanks Bill and John! The fix that worked: Download the MPCORD.zip file. Unzip. Find the MPCORB.DAT file and move it to the Guide directory. Asteroids appear! ...
Hi folks, I use the 29 May 2006 version of Guide8. Comet C/2006 T1 has been figured out to be periodic, thus it is P/2006 T1 in the lates MPC comet ...
Hi Hartwig, Thanks for pointing this out. I will see what I can puzzle out here. I do know of at least one other problem in this category. An example: A...
Hi, I've not used my copy of guide 8 for well over a year, but now I've moved to a place with dark skies I've dug it out along with my dust covered telescopes....
After get a new PC, and not used the Guide 7 for a long time i have get problem to drive the software from my harddisk. Ihave copy the cd to c:\guide_cd ...
Hi Stuart, For comets: use Extras... Add MPC Comets/Asteroids, and click on "Click to download updated comet data and add it to Guide." For asteroids: I'd...
Thanks for that Bill. So does the PC have to be connected to the web to get comet data ? If so, is there another way as the machine I run Guide on isn't...
that is a problem: the connection to Internet in the observation place, solventable with a pencil or stick of memory usb. **The main problem that encounter, is...
Hi Hans-Goran, Here is what I did on a PC without any version of Guide: - installed Guide 7 from CD with Setup.exe into c:\guide7\ - copied the full CD to a...
Laurent Zimmermann
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Oct 16, 2006 6:24 pm
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Thanks ,have done as you told me ,but still get message; "GUIDE5 MFC Application have problem etc...." h-g ... From: Laurent Zimmermann To: Guide-users group ...
sorry not ....GUIDE5 MFC but GUIDE6 MFC Application.... h-g ... From: Hans G. Lindberg To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:42 PM ...
Hello, Bill, and Guide list members, Since downloading the updated software my legend has a garbled date and time. When Guide was last running it showed the...
Hi Hans-Göran, When the CD-ROM (or its copy) is not available, I get another message: "GUIDE needs the GUIDE CD-ROM to run." Maybe the problem is elsewhere in...
Laurent Zimmermann
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Oct 16, 2006 10:26 pm
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Laurent, thanks, i dont know what happend here i open the startup again, now it was between line 17 and 19 and read drive d:\ so i changes it again to...
Yes i get that message now, but why cant i run whitout the cd-rom? h-g ... From: Laurent Zimmermann To: Guide-users group Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:28...
Hello Stuart, ... if you are not online with your computer at the observatory you can also download the file(s) here and save them to your harddisk for later...
I have been having a problem with trying to set my observation point 2.2million km above Saturn (Cassini's altitude). I know I can go to the satellite Cassini...