[guide-user] Bugs, bugs, SkySensor2K

Bill J. Gray Jan 1, 2000

Hi folks,

Well, I've had a busy New Years Day... I've been fixing bugs about
as briskly as they've been reported.

First, Thomas Roehr is correct when he writes:

"...It seems, that quick-info does not understand the difference
between asteroids and comets in the comets.dat-file..."

This also applies to 'list current comets' and 'current asteroids' in
the Tables menu. This has been fixed (but I haven't posted an update yet.)

Two people pointed out that Find_Orb had a weird Y2K-related problem
when fed data spanning two millennia. (Background note: Find_Orb is a
little program that takes a set of asteroid/comet positions for an object,
and determines the orbit of that object.) The bug has been fixed. See

http://www.projectpluto.com/find_orb.htm

for details.

Also: Has anyone tried running Guide with a SkySensor 2000? I'd like
to hear about it (preferably by private e-mail). This scope is supposed
to be LX-200 compatible, but I've heard no reports as to whether it works
with Guide.

-- Bill