Hello all, As the subject line indicates, I've just made the 'in-testing' update the 'official' one. This simply reflects the fact that after a few weeks of...
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Lawrence
ldjhandm
Sep 7, 2011 10:53 am
... That link shows 13 August. My latest v is 13 August. Where does the 16 August version live? Lawrence [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Sep 7, 2011 10:56 am
My update does show August 16. By the way, Bill, when you open the Guide program and attempt to input new MPEC data via the Hot Key, some message is flashing...
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Laren Dart
eclipse1302bc
Sep 7, 2011 7:06 pm
Hi Bill, I can't get past the August 13 version either. Larry ... Laren Dart http://ldart.got.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Arild Moland
astralscooter@...
Sep 7, 2011 7:19 pm
Have you tried to download the zip-file from http://www.projectpluto.com/update8.htm and install it? Even though the website update list only goes to August...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Sep 7, 2011 7:24 pm
Hello all, Sorry... it took me a while to figure out why people were mentioning August 13. I made that actual last improvement ("some scope fixes and...
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rmagnuson2
Sep 7, 2011 9:17 pm
I have only Guide 7 and am awaiting Guide 9. Does anyone know of a way to make this Guide 8 update work with a Guide 7 disk? I have tried but get an error...
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Laren Dart
eclipse1302bc
Sep 8, 2011 2:40 am
Always before, I have simply copied these "new" files from my download directory into the Guide 8 directory, and unzipped them there. This didn't work this...
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alensondivo
Sep 8, 2011 8:02 pm
Hello, I was looking up the above HD star which was in the press (HD85512b). Guide finds it but no star is displayed and so there are no more information on...
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Laren Dart
eclipse1302bc
Sep 9, 2011 12:09 am
Hi Thomas, This star is too newly discovered to be in the Henry Draper catalog. I found the info on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_85512_b It...
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aero
aeroceu
Sep 9, 2011 7:04 am
Guide display info for this star named in diferent catalogs as HIP 48331 ; GSC / TYC 7706 1752 ; A.Alves ... De: guide-user@yahoogroups.com...
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Wolfgang Renz
wr_astro
Sep 9, 2011 3:02 pm
Hi Thomas ... HD 85512 is TYC 7706-1752-1 !!! See e.g. the Identifierer section of HD 85512 in Simbad: Its also listed in the cat "HD identifications for...
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jarisuomela
Sep 10, 2011 7:08 am
Hi Bill, all, Sorry to bother with a very special request of assistance. I'm editing tle.hee to suit better my needs. I want a less verbose dialog and to have...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Sep 11, 2011 1:34 pm
Hi Thomas, You're right, there's a problem here. If you use Go To... Object Name and enter HD 85512 (or use Go To... Star... HD and enter 85512), Guide looks...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Sep 11, 2011 1:38 pm
Hi Bob, ... This "ought" to work. I do know some people have had success with it. When running Guide 8 software with a Guide 7 disk, you should have all the...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Sep 11, 2011 1:53 pm
Hi Jari, ... It should actually be just 'unzip.exe'. The 'r' means 'run this command'; the '4' means "don't continue until unzip, or whatever command is...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Sep 11, 2011 5:43 pm
Hello all, Giuliano Pinto has done his usual good work in getting the Italian version of Guide's text up to date. Italian users should download ...
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Roger
leeroger24
Sep 12, 2011 1:11 am
Does Guide8 and Mel Bartels' Scope program have to reside on the same computer in order to use Scopes' Guide.Bat feature ?...
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jarisuomela
Sep 12, 2011 5:12 pm
Thanks Bill! Now it's much better. One more thing; there is a slight problem in the official tle.hee with the url of the McCanths name and mags file....
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Lawrence
ldjhandm
Sep 14, 2011 6:21 pm
Is there any web page with details about Guide-9? TIA Lawrence Harris...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Sep 27, 2011 3:22 pm
Hello all, I've been using a keyboard with a line of buttons across the top such as "back", "forward", "favorites", "previous track", and so on. It's ...
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Lawrence
ldjhandm
Sep 27, 2011 6:45 pm
I just updated my observatory computer with the latest Guide version. I tried to update the asteroid/comet elements using the usual option but the same bug as...
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Jose
jcgmilla2000
Oct 7, 2011 8:48 pm
Hello I want to work with scope/maximdll/guide8 you can work as with sky6 (the skybox) I do not want to use the Poth I work with directly guide8 forgiveness...
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Lawrence
ldjhandm
Oct 11, 2011 2:27 pm
By chance I looked up the distance of Deneb shown by Guide: 3200+-1800 light years. The same star is quoted on a web site as being 1425 LY away. I wonder which...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Oct 11, 2011 2:50 pm
Hi Lawrence, That 3200 +/- 1800 figure came from the initial Hipparcos reductions. With the more recent (2007) reduction of Hipparcos data, the distance ...
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Anthony J. Kroes
tkroes
Oct 11, 2011 3:01 pm
3200+-1800= a low end of 1400, so 1425 is in the range. Can both be right? Tony From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
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pastorgalactico
tmjoaquin
Oct 13, 2011 2:41 pm
Hello; I wonder if it is possible to install 8.0 on a pc GUIDE Mac OS X with iLife. Greetings; J. Tapioles -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We...
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Mikael
svlgrd
Oct 14, 2011 1:41 pm
Hi group I am using Guide v.8. Suddenly, the program no longer displays planet surface graphic bitmaps - just black discs. Have I hit some obscure key...
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icylander1
Oct 14, 2011 11:58 pm
After installing the lastest version of Guide 8 on a Windows 7 machine I can't get any updates for comets, etc no matter how I try to do it. Kills the program...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Oct 15, 2011 1:24 am
... Hmmm... I know it's been done with Parallels, Virtual PC, and Bootcamp. I am reasonably sure it could be done with Wine in OS X as well, but haven't...
