I am having problems with get_dss hanging up on me and hardly ever getting tri-colour composite images to form. Is there a fix for this I am not aware of?...
Hi Bill, A few days a go, I was able to download the April 27 2003 version of the Guide 8 user manual from http://www.projectpluto.com/manual/ Today, both...
Hi Bertrand and Bill, I have also asked a while ago if it is possible to correct the images with the wildly off pixel values. Can I change them with a program ...
With the big ole moon making it difficult to chase down dimmer asteroids I have been getting the brighter ones. Last night I ran into an issue that I think is...
Hi Dave, I have a silly answer to your question, but did you enter (1951) Lick or just Lick. or just the number. If you enter the name or number it should ...
Hello Alan.... Not speaking for Dave, but he and I do enter our targets the same way, by using the current daily neatod.dat files from MPCORB and converting...
Hi Bertrand and Konstantin, I think that fixing this ought to be my next task. I've a decent idea as to how to go about it. There's a new "testing" update at ...
Hi Dave, I just got the current 'neatod.dat', renamed it to 'mpcorb.dat', and was able to find assorted asteroids in it. But (1951) and (1922) aren't in that...
Hi Bill, <http://www.projectpluto.com/manual2.zip < < Prompted by your e-mail, I've updated 'manual2.zip'. Many thanks for the manual. It's very useful to...
Hi Alan, I don't think that is a silly answer, I tried everything I could think of at the time without success. Thanks! Hi Bill, When I get out to my...
Hi Dave, (1922) Zulu and (1951) Lick aren't NEOs, so they won't appear in any of the NEO files. (The MPC considers any object with a perihelion distance of...
I have often downloaded the unusual asteroids file into Guide and renamed it MPCORB.dat much the same way that Clay does with the neotod file. It gives one a...
I posted about this problem before but I haven't received any replies: I would like to download images from the various deep sky surveys that Guide is linked...
hi everybody, I'm Dietmar Hager, an austrian TMB enthusiast. I operate my 9" TMB attached to mountegra (a single arm fork mount) with Boxdörfer's Dynostar -...
Hi Dietmar, "...I understand, once guide 8 is connected to the drive-system, it should display an indicator on the screen that continuously updates to show...
Hi Dan, A couple of questions: What happens when you attempt to get DSS images? Do you get any sort of error message, or other behavior that might indicate...
hi Bill, thanks for the response! I must give that scope indicator another try. at present it does not work - could this have something to do with the ASCOM? ...
Hello Bill: The problem is two fold: Many times nothing happens. Other times I will get the overlay byt at best 2 of the three colours but I never get a ...
how do you get Guide to bring in Tricolour images?. I have never spotted that option. Owen ... Owen Brazell [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hello Bill and Others: Got a beautiful image of M1 (Crab Nebula) in Green and Red overlays. Here is how I did it: 1) POSS1 Red+red overlay 2) HST phase 2 +...
Bill, I de-installed and re-installed the entire software, updated with the same recent updates, and: now the indicater shows up and is functional! (though I...
Hello all I am moving much of my astronomy software over to Vista (Ultimate) while keeping an XP Pro version available on a different partition in case of...
OK - I read a previous post about disabling themes in icons so that problem (spaced icons) is now fixed (thanks Dennis!). Now how do I get Vista UAC to accept...
I am having frequent instances in which Get_DSS 1.0 hangs up and have only a few tri-colour images of various DSOs. Also I don't like the colour overlay being...
I have made a point to load all my computers as well as two back up computers with XP Pro; I also bought several copies of XP before they pulled it off the...
That is encouraging.....I am sure there are others out there who have found compatibility with Vista, but not with our systems. I work with hundreds of ...
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