Trails tips and tricks
B. Hudgens May 6, 2002
Following Bill's posting about the new trails feature (below)......I found that you could include a "-" minus sign in front of the Trail Length value and it would project the trails into the 'future'. That also makes it easier to see interesting motions/directions and possible groupings in the same field of view at times. Give it a try.
Ben Hudgens
(26 Feb 2002) "Motion trails" for asteroids: If you click on an asteroid, then on "Display", and then on "Options", the resulting dialog box now has an edit control for "Trail length". By default, this is zero. Set it to, say, 10, and Guide will add a little "trail" to each asteroid, indicating its motion over the last ten days.
Showing the apparent motion in this manner can be useful in giving a feel as to which asteroids are headed in which direction, and which are main-belt objects and which are "unusual" (distant or near-earth) objects)
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