Hello Bill, I just updated the comets in Guide 8, ver. Mar. 12th 2009, on my notebook via |Extras|Asteroid options|Add MPC comets/asteroids|click to...
Hi, Using rt-click/drag to measure the distance between 2 objects doesn't give the value for RA offset that I expect. Dec offset and distance appear to be...
G'day Bill, after a while, and all, After a few years, I'm back into Guide8, and trying to find out how to display the binary star orbits. I've seen some...
Hi folks, I've just posted an 'in-testing' version at the usual site, http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm Relative to the previous 'in-testing' version, this...
Hi Vincent, All one should need to get binaries to show up correctly is to download the current Guide update. The improvement in question is described at ...
Hi Bernd, Not quite sure exactly why that would have happened, but I do know that in certain situations, you can resize Guide's window and it then takes a...
Hi Bernd, I see one very small fix in the latest 'in-testing' update didn't make it onto the 'new.htm' page. That is a method for resetting Guide to show hour...
Hi Vincent, I assume you're running with B1.0 data from the hard drive, as described at http://www.projectpluto.com/update8d.htm#b1_from_hard_drive The...
G'day Bill, Thanks for that info. I'm finding things a little difficult to relearn. I can't find the manual after several years. Vincent ... From: "Bill J...
Please consider this a sub-heading entitled fine-tuning B1.0 downloads. Along the same lines as the ....from hard drive question, while Guide 8 makes it a snap...
Hi all, Going to Australia in a few weeks, I want to print a set of maps to orientate myself on the southern sky. I find that I do not get constellation names...
Right click on a constellation label (usually reliable if you click left centre of initial letter) then left-click the "Display" button and alter the...
Thanks, that's it. Had to go to level 4 to get constellation names at all, however. Siebren ... From: "Stephen Tonkin" <mb06@...> ... No virus found in...
When I load a set of observations in MPC format I get a message 'Didn't find observer G68' (Sierra Stars Observatory Network'. If I substitute my own code...
Hi Roger, The MPC updates that list from time to time. You can get the current one at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html Save that to the...
Hi Adam, Guide should be doing that already: it shows the shadows cast by Jupiter on the moons, and by the moons onto Jupiter, and by the moons onto one...
Hi Pete, A late reply to: "...Please consider this a sub-heading entitled fine-tuning B1.0 downloads. Along the same lines as the ....from hard drive question,...
Hi Vincent, "...I'm finding things a little difficult to relearn. I can't find the manual after several years." I'm in the process of updating the manual a...
Hi Siebren, You wrote: "...Had to go to level 4 to get constellation names at all, however." That's the default, yes: the names vanish as you zoom in....
Greetings all, I recently had my hard disk drive die, and I lost everything, including Guide8 setup. I have CCDM setup, but I cannot use the 'Goto' with say,...
Hi Bill and group: I finally got motivated to hook up Guide8 to my Dob through my Sky Commander. The info in the manual seems to be directed toward "slew to"...
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