Re: [guide-user] Missing bright stars

Bernd Brinkmann May 13, 2002

Hello Bill,

your explanation was absolutly correct. Now Guide 8 works fine with
bright stars.
Thank you and of course Werner for your detailed error description.

> MISSING BRIGHT STARS:
>
> I had absolutely no idea on this one, but I think I may have
> figured it out, given the detailed report by Werner Hasubick. When
> Guide switches to drawing stars with GSC, it first draws bright stars
> from Tycho. If you've done an "install to hard drive" and copied over
> the GSC, but haven't selected the "Tycho-2 (94 MBytes)" option, Guide
> has data to draw the faint stars, but not the bright ones.
>
> Solution is to put disk #1 in the CD-ROM drive; the bright stars
> should suddenly show up. Go into "Extras... Install to Hard Drive" and
> copy over the Tycho-2 data, and all should work well.

Clear skies
Bernd


Bernd Brinkmann
Herne, Germany

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