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 ...
I use Guide under Vista without any problems. Most issue are related to setup. In Guide icon disable "Themes" to fix the tool bar issue. Make sure you have the...
Most computers will deem me as a security threat so I will assume that is the problem. Thanks for this clarification. Dr. Clay ... Arkansas Sky Observatories ...
For no entirely apparent reason I've done a TDF so Hipparcos 2 ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/I/311 can be used in Guide 8, or at least reasonably recent...
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Hi John, "...For no entirely apparent reason I've done a TDF [for] Hipparcos 2..." This may prove quite useful, since I'm now hearing reports (from you and...
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Alrighty, we've had one for the astrometrics, now one for the photometrics. This is trickier, and possibly best ignored by most people. Backup the file...
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Hello all. It has been years since I last posted. Have been successfully driving my Dob/Sky Comm/Tracker with Guide?~8 and it has proven to be a great...
Hi Ron, This ought to be straightforward: you can either tell Guide you have a Meade (LX200-type) scope, or go through ASCOM. I'd recommend the former route,...
I have two telescopes that use Gemini and on both I simply default Guide to "LX200" and it works without a hitch....sometimes simpler is better. Dr. Clay ... ...
... Hi Bill, It has been some time since we last talked. As you might imagine, I am taking something simple and turning it into a project. I installed the...
Hi Ron, I just did a little checking, and it appears the Gemini 4.0 does support Meade commands: http://www.docgoerlich.de/L4V1serial.html So that's not the...
Hello Dietmar, ... long time ago (in the DOS era) I bought a piece of software called "Deep Sky Planner" which could do such a filtering and gave you such a...
... Bill, Hi Again, Good news. By the off chance a higher value than 300 would help, I changed line 49 to 350 and bingo!!! Now both the "LX200" and "ASCOM" ...
Hi Bill, I used the link from within Guide 8 (2 June 2008 version) to find asc_link.dll but the link fails. I went to the Project Pluto website and did a...
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