Hi Harald,

The default epoch will be whatever is set in Settings|RA/Dec Format...
In addition to setting the epoch by way of the two given radio buttons
you can set whatever epoch you want. Try checking "Other", entering
B1950.0 and checking back to see what the legend says. I suspect the
epoch is not supposed to be changed in the legend, and is only to show
what epoch is set as the default. (Bill...)?

Larry



At 01:28 PM 10/10/04 -0000, you wrote:

>
>Hi Guide 8 users,
>
>found something strange in Guide 8 today.
>
>When left-clicking on RA/DEC in the legend (on my screen bottom left),
>I get the insert RA/DEC screen as follows:
>http://www.greier-greiner.at/hc/_screens/guide8/screen_1.gif
>
>After entering some coordinates, Guide tells me that "D" 2000 is not a
>correct epoche.
>http://www.greier-greiner.at/hc/_screens/guide8/screen_2.gif
>
>I *always* have to type J2000 in the epoche field.
>
>Q1: Why is the default label "D" 2000, if it's not correct?
>Q2: What values are valid for the "epoch" field?
>
>thank you,
>
>harald

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