Bill Gray Sep 12, 2016
On 2016-09-12 13:34, christoph held cheld93@... [guide-user] wrote:
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> Keith, at this moment I compressed the files. Unfortunately my Dropbox is limited to 2.5
> GB so I must split the zip and then upload it piece by Piece.
> Best I write to you when I´ve uploaded a Piece and then you tell me when you´ve
> downloaded it so i can Exchange. Best you write me to:
> cheld93 at yahoo.de
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> *Von:* "Keith Pascall tilehouseobservatory@... [guide-user]"
> <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> *An:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> *Gesendet:* 19:25 Montag, 12.September 2016
> *Betreff:* Re: [guide-user] RE: Problems with UCAC4 and USNO B1.0
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> Hi Christoph,
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> That would be very kind of you - if you are sure it would not be too much trouble -
> there are a lot of files, something like 8Gb!
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> Please feel free to reply direct to my email address
> tilehouseobservatory@...
> <mailto:tilehouseobservatory@...> if you wish, to keep any detail more
> private.
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> Kind regards,
>
> Keith
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> On 12/09/2016 18:04, christoph held cheld93@... <mailto:cheld93@...>
> [guide-user] wrote:
>> Hi Keith,
>> sorry for the bad links. Two weeks in advance it works.
>> If you are interested i can upload my UCAC Files in my Drobbox.
>> Christoph
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>> *Von:* "Keith Pascall tilehouseobservatory@...
>> <mailto:tilehouseobservatory@...> [guide-user]"
>> <guide-user@yahoogroups.com> <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>> *An:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>> *Gesendet:* 18:58 Montag, 12.September 2016
>> *Betreff:* Re: [guide-user] RE: Problems with UCAC4 and USNO B1.0
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>> Hi Dr. Clay and Christoph,
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>> Have tried full path UCAC4_PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\GUIDE91\ucac4 but it makes no
>> difference. The URAT1 files are in the same place and work with the short path.
>>
>> Unfortunately the web pages you quote either gives a blank page or 'page can not be
>> found' error depending on browser used. It looks like the files have been removed but
>> I do begin to suspect something is wrong with the files I downloaded.
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>> Thank you for your suggestions, I will try and find another source to download from.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Keith
>>
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>> On 12/09/2016 17:36, christoph held cheld93@... <mailto:cheld93@...>
>> [guide-user] wrote:
>>> Hi Keith!
>>> I´ve had the same problems with the downloaded data from CDS.
>>> The files should be faulty. Then I´ve downloaded from this source:
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>>> http://www.tcmt.org/data/ucac/UCAC4.7z.001
>>> to
>>> http://www.tcmt.org/data/ucac/UCAC4.7z.018
>>> Now it works.
>>> Kind regards
>>> Christoph
>>>
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>>> *Von:* "'P. Clay Sherrod' drclay@... <mailto:drclay@...>
>>> [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com> <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>> *An:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>> *Gesendet:* 18:10 Montag, 12.September 2016
>>> *Betreff:* Re: [guide-user] RE: Problems with UCAC4 and USNO B1.0
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>>>
>>> It appears that your path route is not complete:
>>> UCAC4_PATH=ucac4
>>> It needs to be directed to the complete drive that your GUIDE folder (in which your
>>> UCAC-4 resides)....such as
>>> UCAC4_PATH=C:\GUIDE8\ucac-4
>>>
>>> For example.
>>>
>>> ------------
>>> Dr. Clay
>>>
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>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* Keith Pascall tilehouseobservatory@... [guide-user]
>>> <mailto:tilehouseobservatory@...%20[guide-user]>
>>> *To:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, September 12, 2016 10:58 AM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [guide-user] RE: Problems with UCAC4 and USNO B1.0
>>>
>>> Hi Grant,
>>>
>>> Basically not having use this method before and some research on the internet.
>>>
>>> I have, however, downloaded a program called Tixati (which looked fairly simple
>>> to use) and tried it briefly. This method seems to be the only way to get a copy
>>> of usno-B1.0 which is all I want to use it for.
>>>
>>> I have left off trying that at the moment because I can not get the downloaded
>>> ucac4 files to display in Guide 9.1
>>>
>>> I downloaded ucac4 via ftp from cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr site
>>> Files z001 to z900 (exactly as downloaded) were placed in a directory 'ucac4'
>>> inside Guide 9.1 (10 Dec 2015 version).
>>> File ucac4.tdf (from recent group email) added to Guide 9.1
>>> Added new line to guide.dat UCAC4_PATH=ucac4
>>> Extras - Toggle user datasets shows UCAC-4 is 'on' and 'Show at' reads '0 1.5'
>>> Label is ticked.
>>> No UCA4 stars show up at any level of display or can be found with a search.
>>>
>>> URAT1 is set up in exactly the same way and works ok.
>>>
>>> Can anybody suggest what I might have done wrong or missed?
>>> Do I need to process the downloaded files in any way?, I can find no instruction
>>> to do so.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Keith
>>>
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>>> On 12/09/2016 13:29, 'Blair, Grant' g.blair@... <mailto:g.blair@...>
>>> [guide-user] wrote:
>>>> Keith,
>>>> Why would you consider the use of BitTorrent to be ‘a bit risky without use of a
>>>> VPN’? Unless you plan on doing something on (or beyond) the margins of legality
>>>> (software or media piracy), torrents are an excellent way to distribute large
>>>> files or datasets, sharing the load over many, many clients with available
>>>> bandwidth.
>>>> Grant
>>>> *From:*guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com]
>>>> *Sent:* Sunday, September 11, 2016 8:55 AM
>>>> *To:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [guide-user] Problems with UCAC4 and USNO B1.0
>>>>
>>>> Hi Christoph,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the info and apologies for not getting you name correct in my
>>>> previous email.
>>>>
>>>> I have never used the 'Bittorrent' system for downloading and have read that it
>>>> is a bit risky without having a VPN set up also.
>>>>
>>>> Did you use a VPN for your download?
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Keith
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/09/2016 12:53, christoph held cheld93@... <mailto:cheld93@...>
>>>> [guide-user] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Keith,
>>>> take this:
>>>> https://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/news/usno-b1.0_catalog
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Christoph
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>>>> *Von:*"Keith Pascall tilehouseobservatory@...
>>>> <mailto:tilehouseobservatory@...> [guide-user]"
>>>> <guide-user@yahoogroups.com> <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> *An:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> *Gesendet:* 13:45 Sonntag, 11.September 2016
>>>> *Betreff:* Re: [guide-user] Problems with UCAC4 and USNO B1.0
>>>>
>>>> Hi Christopher,
>>>>
>>>> I have been looking to download the USNO B1.0 catalogue but can not find a
>>>> site where it is available'.
>>>>
>>>> Are you able to disclose from where you downloaded a copy?
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Keith
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03/09/2016 09:41, christoph held cheld93@...
>>>> <mailto:cheld93@...> [guide-user] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Bill!
>>>> Thanks for your help. That works great. And sorry for double posting.
>>>> kind regards
>>>> Christoph
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>>>> *Von:*"Bill Gray pluto@... <mailto:pluto@...>
>>>> [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> *An:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>>>> *Gesendet:* 20:11 Montag, 29.August 2016
>>>> *Betreff:* Re: [guide-user] Problems with UCAC4 and USNO B1.0
>>>>
>>>> Hi Christop,
>>>>
>>>> My apologies; you've been led astray by some documentation that I need
>>>> to update.
>>>>
>>>> If you get these two files :
>>>>
>>>> http://www.projectpluto.com/usno_b1.tdf
>>>> http://www.projectpluto.com/ucac4.tdf
>>>>
>>>> and put them in your Guide folder, you'll see "UCAC-4" and "USNO B1.0
>>>> from hard drive" in your Extras... Toggle User Dataset lists.
>>>>
>>>> Those files were provided as part of the Guide 8 update file, and
>>>> they're present on the Guide 9 and 9.1 DVDs. But they are _not_
>>>> automatically installed from the Guide 9.x disk.
>>>>
>>>> Incidentally, a note to first-time posters on this list: it may take
>>>> a little while before your first post is approved. After that, you won't
>>>> be moderated, and your posts will appear almost instantly. This list used
>>>> to be completely unmoderated, but that resulted in spam.
>>>>
>>>> -- Bill
>>>>
>>>> On 2016-08-29 08:02, christoph held cheld93@...
>>>> <mailto:cheld93@...> [guide-user] wrote:
>>>> >
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>>>> > Hallo to you all!
>>>> >
>>>> > I´ve a problem with displaying the UCAC4 and USNO B1.0 Stars. I have
>>>> downloaded both
>>>> > Catalogue. The UCAC4 folder contains the z001 to z900 files and the
>>>> B1.0 folder
>>>> > b0000.acc to b1799.acc files and the same as .cat. I´ve also set the
>>>> path to the folders
>>>> > in the way describte on the projectpluto page:
>>>> > http://www.projectpluto.com/update8d.htm#b1_from_hard_drive
>>>> > but nothings happened!
>>>> > There is no new entry in the toggle user datasets.
>>>> > What I make wrong? Please help me.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you
>>>> >
>>>> > Christoph
>>>> >
>>>> >
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