Andrea Pelloni Sep 22, 2002
>At 07:34 PM 9/21/02 +0000, you wrote:[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >Guide can display star mags *down* to the level set on the Display,
> >star, menu. I would like to display mags between two limits - eg., 16
> >to 18. Can this be done? Its for star checking purposes - comparing
> >CCD fields with Guide. Right-clicking each star is a little tedious.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Lawrence Harris
>
>I asked Bill about this long ago, for a different purpose. I wanted to be
>able to "browse" down, looking for very wide clusters which showed a
>common proper motion. The only program I found that would set upper and
>lower limits was Stargaze. This was my very first astronomy program, years
>ago. My idea worked beautifully. I found a really large unrecorded
>cluster in Triangulum, and was quite excited...
>
>Until I discovered that Stargaze was probably the worst astronomy program
>ever done. (They went belly up, but not until after I had spent over $200
>US on additional catalogs, etc.) Most of the stars in what I dubbed "The
>Stargaze Cluster" did not exist.
>
>I later also found that there was not a single star in decl. 0 to -1.
>Black holes? Heck, I was the discoverer of the "Stargaze Equatorial Black
>Band!" (c'est la vie, fame is fleeting.) The program was so incredibly
>bad, it was almost unbelievable. Anyone here remember it?
>
>Bill, if this magnitude "slicing" feature wouldn't be too hard to add, some
>people might think of other uses for it besides the two mentioned here. I
>still think the idea itself was a good one, even if I did find non-existent
>stars! >;->
>
>TIA,
>Larry Dart
>
>http://www.got.net/~ldart
>writing and photography
>
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