Double stars/2MASS downloads

Bill J Gray Jun 10, 2003

Bertrand Laville wrote:

"... since you have modified the double.nam file, with
alphabetic order of discoverers by abbreviation instead of
full name, I can assure you it's a great improvement in
finding and observing double stars..."

I probably will make this the default version of the
double star discoverer list. I've heard a few positive
comments, and no negative ones (at least, not yet!)

John Greaves pointed out that the "Extras... Get
A1.0/A2.0 Data... Get 2MASS from Internet" function
is broken, because the Universite de Strasbourg has
moved the 2MASS catalog around on their server. I
dunno how many people are actually using this function,
but if you are... just grab

http://www.projectpluto.com/gsc22.exe

(about 12 KBytes) and put it in your Guide directory,
and 2MASS will again be downloadable.

-- Bill