Hello Bill,

Congratulations!. This last update make a powerfull tool as Guide is, a very
wonderfull one!. I have expected a speed penalty for the antialiasing
(bluring in guide ;-), but I can't detect nothing important in my machine!
(a windows xp one). Now also, the coloring algorithm is the same that
without colouring stars. You must see to believe a field star of level 4 or
5 with colouring stars and bluring (3 pixels in my configuration)!. Go to
some coloured double as Epsilon Bootis!. Is soo wonderfull!.

Thanks, Bill for this "cosmetic" update ;-).

--
Saludos,
Rafael Barbera
Grup d'Estudis Astronomics (GEA)
http://usuarios.lycos.es/rbarbera/

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Bill J Gray [mailto:pluto@...]
> Enviado el: jueves, 25 de abril de 2002 3:02
> Para: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Asunto: [guide-user] Update posted
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've just posted another update, at the usual place:
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/update8.htm
>
> This one is not quite as major as I'd hoped (a few items are
> just not ready for prime time), but does include the following:
>
> Orbital binaries are shown at the right separation/position
> angles. You can even zoom in on odd pairs such as Sirius and
> Sirius B/"The Pup", or Procyon and its companion.
>
> You can choose the photometric band in which Tycho-2, A2.0,
> and GSC-2.2 stars are shown (you can't do that for GSC stars
> simply because they are given in only one band), and can set the
> saturation of colored stars. Also, you can set stars to be
> "blurred" (essentially, antialiased... coincidentally, an idea
> just proposed on this list by Tiziano Magni.)
>
> Several "Go To" functions have been revised so that you get the
> same sort of red-yellow-green hints that were added for "Go To
> Comets" in the previous update.
>
> I made some improvements to the DOS version of the software,
> mostly to make sure that some things added to the Windows version
> long ago would work in DOS. As you might expect, I'm not going to
> stay awake nights attempting to keep DOS Guide going. However, it
> often happens that once a change is made in Windows Guide, it shows
> up in DOS Guide with very little extra effort, and there are a
> surprising number of DOS holdouts in the world.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
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