Hi,

> Set it up with only a thousand asteroids, and it assumed it was running
> an older CD in which DSO data was in a different format.) Anyway, it's
> fixed now.

Cool.

> Certain forms of labelling are still going to be odd, though, because
> Guide has assumed consecutively-numbered asteroids. I may return to this
> problem eventually.

Not a top priority to anyone, myself included :)

> When I 'go to' IC 410, I see an open cluster, NGC 1893. Clicking

yes, it's embedded within the nebula (I shall not swear that this is so
physically and not by chance alignment, however).

> for "more info" gets me a cross-reference to IC 410. There are quite
> a few cases where an object got both an IC and an NGC number; this
> appears to be one of them. (A few got two IC or two NGC numbers.)

Nope. NGC 1893 is an open cluster, IC 410 is the nebula around it. The two
objects are often spoken of together, however. The Dreyer description for IC 410
is "Dif,many st inv", which implies a nebulous nature. Anyway, this may not be a
big deal, it's all in the data. One can discuss data accuracy and errors
forever, and these kinds of thing will be (and are!) present in any package
you'll find.

But, I see that you got the data from the NGC/IC project... I will have to check
this one out a little better :)

> Exactly how you're getting it to show up at all (and the oddities
> with IC 405) is surprising to me... could you perhaps e-mail me your
> STARTUP.MAR as an attachment?

Will do. The problem is that IC 410 do not show up as a separate nebula. The IC
405 case is getting cooler, though. It seems I missed something there, because
the label do show up on level 1-5, not at 6, but then again at 7, not at 8,
again at 9 and beyond.

> I'm holding off on further improvements for a bit, until I get
> the current set of bugs under control. I'm fixing them about as fast
> as people are reporting them, but it's keeping me busy right now!

I've probably said this before, but one of the major selling points of Guide,
is the fast access to updated versions and the influence you as a user are given
on the product. Excellent!

Best regards,

Arild :)

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