Ah but as far as I know UCAC 3 has now been delayed until the autumn. See http://ad.usno.navy.mil/ucac/ As Bill has never made any noises about the delivery of...
Do we already have - or could we have a second CCD camera frame available and offset? I want to set up a guide camera frame near to the main CCD frame to ...
Hello Lawrence, ... do you mean a guider chip with a fixed separation and orientation (as many of the SBIG cameras have) or a second independant camera? For...
The guider chip has a fixed relative position. I cannot see anywhere in Guide where one can be activated. The menu option only offers one (main) camera frame...
Hello Lawrence, ... the answer is in this link I gave before: http://www.projectpluto.com/update7.htm#guider_chips It is an (like many others) undocumented...
Hi Lawrence, If you have a "standard", off-the-shelf camera such as an SBIG or MegaTek camera, you can just select your type of camera. Guide already...
Hi Owen, At one time, I _was_ planning on having UCAC-3 be a major new part of Guide 9.0. I'm no longer holding my breath for UCAC-3 (though I'll be...
Hi Pete, Sorry for the late reply to this! Something must have gone wrong in the update. You should _not_ be asked for a password when you unZIP that file....
Hi Adam, A very belated answer to this one: Guide doesn't show the earth shadow. Something I probably ought to add at some point. It would be well if the...
Many thanks to both Bernd and Bill. Just after posting my last (!) I found the part referred to in the link - and blushed appropriately ;-) Bill - it is a...
... Hi Bill, I went to http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm but it seems to be still the same of the last update. Actually the date is still ?? ??? 2007 and the...
Hi My version in About Guide is 23 February as Bill stated. Don't know about bug fixes at this stage. Regards Ivan ... From: "trvsfn" <trvsfn@...> To:...
... <http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm>http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm ... old ones. ... Hi all, that is amazing! After 4 (four!!!) attempts finally I...
Bill did mentioned that the date was not modified. Check the date on the 'Guide.exe' property and see that it shows 8 March 08. That is the update for Guide 8...
Hi Stefano, True, the 'new.htm' page does still state ?? ??? 2008. I'll change those dates when the update becomes final. Anyone see bugs that ought to be...
... Hello Bill, As I have already noted last year, in all "beta" versions beginning from maj 2007 there is a bug in the planet trails drawing: the index marks...
Hi folks, I'm still collecting bug reports. Once those slow down, I'll update the update. Anyone have anything to report? Some comments about the Vista "no...
I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this...it's not really a problem, just a typo, but did you notice that when you select "Settings", "Level", on the...
I still have satellites like Genesis, deep space 1 showing up, after I removed the probes files. If I turn off satellites, they disappear along with the...
Scott, thanks for that catch! As you might expect, that'll be a trivial fix. Kevin, try deleting 'now_comt.dat'. Guide will rebuild it, this time without...
... Thanks. Nice to get rid of the probes, way to faint to observe. Kevin Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with...
Guide crashes with the 'in testing' version when I try to print, both to a real printer and to pdf. When I revert back (reinstall the last update) the problem...
The first time I tried to print to PDF Guide 8 in testing version crashed. Restarted Guide and printed twice to the laser printer OK and twice to PDF OK. ...
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