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A: 73 RA and Declination Explained
B: 74 Precession and Epochs Explained
C: 75 Altitude and Azimuth (Alt/Az) Explained
D: 76 Troubleshooting Positions
E: 77 Notes on Accuracy
F: 77 Adding New Comets
G: 79 Astronomical Magnitudes
H: 80 Copyright and Liability Notices
I: 82 List of Program-Wide Hotkeys
Index 85
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1: HOW TO INSTALL GUIDE
To install Guide, put Guide CD-ROM #1 into the CD-ROM drive
and run SETUP from the disk.
You can specify the directory on your hard drive in which you want
Guide to be installed. If that directory does not exist, it will be
created for you. You can also choose to install software for Windows
95/98/NT/Me/XP (32-bit), Win3.1 (16-bit), or DOS; or a combination
of these. (Most people just choose the 32-bit Windows software.)
An icon indicating the shortcut to Guide will be provided and
may be moved to your desktop.
Interest in the DOS software has been quite low. That software
has been maintained, since there are still a few people using it,
but discussion of Guide in this manual will be directed to the
Windows versions unless stated otherwise. (With some small
exceptions, the Windows 16-bit and 32-bit versions appear the
same to the user. It will rarely be necessary to distinguish
between them.)
SETUP will just install a few megabytes to the hard drive: enough
to enable Guide to run, if it can access the Guide CD-ROM. You may
decide that you would like to install more data from the CD, or
all of the CD, or perhaps all of the second CD. The benefits and
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