Ax.0, other bugs
Bill J Gray Jan 31, 2002
Hi folks,
Joe, I think you're actually okay here. When you use that line in
GUIDE.DAT, you're telling Guide that the data exists on your hard
drive, and to display it (in the case you gave) when the limiting
magnitude drops fainter than 14.5. If you zoom in far enough,
the SA1.0 stars will be shown automagically, _without_ need
for the "extract SA1.0/A1.0 from CD" functions. (The line you
added to GUIDE.DAT looks right to me, by the way.)
Owen, I can think of no good reason for the Ax.0 data to
fail to appear. You may have to zoom in a bit before it
becomes apparent, but that's about it. (That fact has been
known to confuse people. If you're at a limiting magnitude
of, say, 14, it can well be that GSC is already showing
all the stars to that limit, and all Ax.0 is doing is making
them show up twice. The result is that you see no apparent
difference... until you zoom in and get a limiting mag of
16 or so.)
Ned, about transferring your settings: probably the simplest
thing to do is to fire up Guide 7, and select "File... Save a
Mark". Call it "My Settings" or something like that. Guide 7
will create a file called MY_SETTI.MAR (lopped down to
the old 8-character limit!) in its own directory. Move that
over to the Guide 8 directory, start up Guide 8, and click
on "File... Load a Mark" and select your "My Settings" mark.
Still puzzling out that NGC 2299 problem. (In Guide 7, there
were assorted situations in which going from zoom level 5 to 6
caused the types of objects to change. That happened because
I rather foolishly created "high-level" DSO data from one dataset,
and "low-level" DSO data from other datasets. In Guide 8,
everything ought to come from common data; the only difference
is that fainter objects are dropped out from the "higher-level"
dataset.)
-- Bill