... Hi Bill I did this but nothing happened after pressing OK! Yes, I get the new listing. ... Yes, I did this as well. Because again nothing happened, I...
Perhaps someone can tell me what I might be doing wrong. I'm a long time user of Guide and I use the MPCORBcr.dat file for all of my minor planet observing...
Use of Guide 8! I bought a Telescope Celestron CPC 925 XLT! Via cable I am able to control the movements of the telescope with the software Guide 8! I can only...
Use of Guide 8! I bought a Telescope Celestron CPC 925 XLT! Via cable I am able to control the movements of the telescope with the software Guide 8! I can only...
Hello Alfredo, ... in |Settings|Scope control| click on the COM port the telescope is connected to and try LX-200 or NexStar mode. Then you will see a new...
Rereading my prev msg. I don't think I might have been very clear on what I was asking. Here is an example from 878 Mildred. The upper part of this info...
I will try to explain this as clearly as I believe to understand the process. If you are using a MPCORB file, some of the data has been updated since Guide 8...
From MPC: http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/MPEph2 H=14.6 From NASA: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=878&orb=1 absolute magnitudo of the asteroid (878)...
Thanks! I managed to connect and control the telescope, but due to unfavorable weather conditions I did a test with the approximate function "one star align"...
Hi Alfredo, Those 'slew', 'find', 'enter', and 'guide' commands are LX-200 specific. For a Celestron scope, the 'slew Guide' and 'slew telescope' commands...
Hi Ned, "...Before I purchase Guide 8 I want to be sure it works with Sidereal Tech servo controllers. Does anyone in ths group have that experience?" I can't...
Hi Ben, As Denis and Ireneusz have suggested, the different asteroid catalogues have different values of H. I'd expect this to happen, because asteroid...
Thanks! Now I would like to report a problem: I can point to objects with sufficient accuracy, even taking into account that I made the alignment of the ...
Hello Alfredo, ... ok. That's right what you are doing. And you have to do this alignement once at an observing session. ... The "Add Alignement star" button...
Hello Bernd! Thanks for your answer! One more question: - after I clicked on "add alignement star" have I to see some movement? Because 'I do not know of any...
Hi Alferdo When you click on "Add alignment star" you are telling Guide exactly where your telescope is pointed. Be carefull to have the star in the center of...
Hello Alfredo, ... No, but what you can see (if you have digital setting circles) is that the coordinates changes in the display if the correction is larger...
I am using a celestron 102 SLT telescope, to satellite observe. I like guide, as under the real time option found under the animation dialog, I can use the...
Hello Bernard and Bill Gray! Thanks for the detailed information! !I got more information through the internet, on " digital setting circles "; however, I do...
Ahhh Man! Ever since that jerk hacked the MPC they've been struggling to set up a clean hack-proof mirror site. Some things are back up and running at ...
Actually it is very easy to save: go ahead and open the file and then save it as it is to Guide; once done, then open the file again and SAVE as and make sure...
I learn fast.....I still think the computer runs with little wizards inside, and hamsters on treadmills. But, I can usually figure out the easy stuff.... Dr....
For GZ you can use the free and excellent program at http://www.izarc.org/ "CR" means carriage return-line feed formatted text. As for download versus open,...
I am having trouble getting my Losmandy DSC/Guide/PC connection going. I am widening the hunt by posting on Sky Commander also. Parameters: Older Losmandy DSC...
Hello Bill, excuse my English school. I wanted to know if in future version of the guide, inserting tables, broken down by type of objects, objects visible at...
