The way I do it is:

- level 1 (180°)
- Goto => Horizon menu => Zenit
- Display => Ticks, grids, etc => Horizon

that way Guide will show the whole visible sky, centered on the zenit, en
draws the horizon.
Unfortunately, Guide also shows stars and constellations outside this
horizon-line. This is no problem if you just want to know what's visible at
a certain moment, but it's annoing me when I'm making monthly skycharts for
our magazine, website,...

I have to make a -.bmp-file, import it into Photoshop, and delete
everything outside this "horizon-circle".

So Bill: maybe you could add an extra item in the "background"-menu, really
blanking out everything beneath the horizon (The "Show ground" item blanks
out most of the things, but not everything)?

Philippe,


At 10:53 4-10-01 -0400, you wrote:

>Hello. Bill and other Guide savants
>
>I am a very happy Guide user but find myself wishing it had one feature that
>I would find very useful. That is the ability to produce a full sky star
>chart that stops at the horizon, has the constellation lines drawn, with
>options to draw the constellation boundaries and constellation and star
>labelling. Heretofore I have used Deep Space for this purpose (David
>Chandler's software). DS does a great job on charting and draws a great
>full sky star chart, but DS has not kept up with the times. It still runs
>in DOS and will only support a limited number of printers. My Lexmark
>inkjet printer is not among them.
>
>So, how about it, Bill. Any chance of adding a special feature to v.8 that
>would give a nice printout of the whole sky above the horizon?
>
>If anyone using v.7 has any suggestion for getting Guide to do this now,
>please respond.
>
>Clear skies.
>
>Roger in Jacksonville, FL
>
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