Hi all, Is there a way I can restore the Palomar plates without me having to do a complete reinstall of G8? I deleted them from the overlay window in an...
Has anyone devised an easy way to turn the A2 catalogue off-on without having to edit the Guide dat file??? Or how hard would it be to develope a way. -- Larry...
Out of the blue I find I'm not able to load/run Guide8 on my Win XP system. When I try to start Guide8 it produces the error message "Guide8 MFC Application...
Hi Tom, "...Is there a way I can restore the Palomar plates without me having to do a complete reinstall of G8?" There are two ways of doing this. You can put...
Hi Bernard, (Scratching head) Guide really shouldn't do anything with the scope at startup time. It shouldn't attempt to link to a scope (either via ASCOM or...
Hi Larry, At present, the only way to do it is via 'guide.dat'. You are, of course, correct in thinking that there Ought To Be a Better Way. Specifically,...
Bill, Is the "in-testing" version still new.htm rather than update8.htm? I have the June 6 version now, is this the latest? -- Larry ... Laren Dart ...
Hi Bill, Sadly updating with the latest version of Guide8 didn't cure the problem. I guess I could start from scratch ... remove and reinstall from the CD ......
Hi Bernard, I had a lot of trouble with MFC crashes, as did others, but it hasn't happened for a while. The only change in the updates is that at some point...
We need a bit more info. Do you have more than one hdd? Is Win XP fully up to date? What kind of video card? Does the video card using the latest driver? Did...
... and H ... Hello Sebastia, You must go to the "Extra" menu and than "edit orbital data". Then you can select P17 and see the orbital data with G and H. Kind...
Hello all I'm not sure which forum is best for this query, so excuse me if I'm OT. I normally use USNO-A2 for plate solving, but I am aware that in many case -...
To my knowledge, the UCAC-2 catalog is still incomplete for high northern declinations; it goes as high as about 55 deg (i.e., in Perseus) in limited areas of...
Hi Lawrence, If you look here: http://ad.usno.navy.mil/ucac/ you'll be told that "final" UCAC, filling in the gap from dec +50 to Polaris, will be done in...
On Dec 31, the Epoxi ( Deep Impact ) spacecraft will buzz the earth. http://epoxi.umd.edu/ How do I get it, to show up in guide. I placed the data from the...
Hi Kevin, I don't why your method doesn't work but I've successfully used the following 1. Send an email to JPL's Horizons system requesting osculating ...
Hi Kevin, One problem you may have encountered is this: "probes" are controlled as if they were "asteroids". That is, you have to go to Display... Data...
Ah yes, I got it to work! First the bad news bill. Seem's I got a glitch somewhere, with my copy of guide. I have the latest updates from the project pluto...
Hi Kevin, I think I see what happened here. Guide _does_ use the 'probes.dat' file. But updating it doesn't automatically cause 'now_comt.dat' to be updated. ...
Guide 8 won't show this particular planetary even though it is relatively large and bright. I also tried the PK # no show. In both instances Guide goes to the...
I have June 2007 version and Abell21 does indeed show up in Gemini; make sure you have Planetaries turned on and not on 'fixed'. Its alternate name when Help...
Hello Chris, Guide use PK2 catalogue to show Planetary Nebulae. "Abell 21" is shown by "PK 205.1+14.2". PK2 cataloue has no magnitude data for "Abell 21" even...
Many thanks. I had everything on "auto", which I assumed meant that everything was "on". I guess it wasn't I downloaded "latest" from main web page and ended...
Hi, I had gone to the projectpluto site and downloaded his latest. It was dated 6 June 2007, but I think I dl'ed it this last August. There may be an even ...
The main web page for "Project Pluto" still indicates that March 24, 2007 is latest release for Guide 8.0. I have May 7th and when I download "latest" I still...
You didn't hear it from me,but visit this page: http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm it's one he doesn't care to publicize. Doug ... From: "cspratt2001"...
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