Thanks Arild. I have used the data shown feature countless times and did
not notice the Messier or NGC filters. I need to re-read the manual
before asking more dumb questions...

Tom


On 1/26/2015 3:43 PM, Arild Moland astralscooter@... [guide-user]
wrote:

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>
> Tom,
>
> I think the best you can do out of the box, is through the Display >
> Data shown... dialog, where you at least can filter on Messier only,
> NGC/IC only etc.
>
> A more involved approach would be to produce custom data sets for the
> various galaxy catalogs. These may then be toggled on/off and adjusted
> through the Extras > Toggle user dataset... option.
>
> Arild :)
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:36 PM, tom loeblt@...
> <mailto:loeblt@...> [guide-user] <guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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> Is there a simple way to just display a class of galaxies, say, only all
> Messier objects, or only all Arp objects, rather than checking the
> display option of all galaxies or none? The field gets very busy upon
> zooming out to look for this evening's targets.
>
> Tom
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