Hi folks,

It's been a long day of bug-hunting today. However, I've now
vanquished all but one. First, the fixed ones:

Masaki Kouda and a few others noticed the "Go To Comet" function
had gone away. Until I post an update, I'd suggest using the
"Tables... Current Comets". You can then click on an entry in the
resulting list to center on that comet, and you get additional
data not present in the "usual" Go To Comet function.

Masaki Kouda also noticed that, when run in Japanese (and several
other languages not having a version of TOOLBAR.DAT), you can't
select hotkeys. I've fixed this; as in most cases where Guide
doesn't have data for language X, it will now fall back on the
English version.

Paul Gabriel noticed a really nasty little bug in satellite
positions. Turns out that they've been a bit off all along; low
orbiters can be misplotted by a few arcminutes, higher objects by
lesser amounts. I've fixed this. (On the bright side, while
investigating this bug, I found a possible way to make use of
the SDP4 theory, one that's a bit more accurate for high-orbiting
Earth satellites than the SGP4 theory currently in use by Guide.)

But the bug Owen Brazell spotted, wherein planetary nebulae
show up in one color and the labels in another, remains a mystery.
Once I figure this one out (and document some changes I've made),
I'll post an update. If anyone spots a pattern to it, please let
me know (I've been unable to replicate the problem.)

Also, in between bug fixes, I updated the Web site to announce
Guide 8 and a few new user-added datasets. Go to the main page,

http://www.projectpluto.com

and click on "History" for details.

-- Bill