Hi all,

I received notice recently about a predicted asteroid occultation that should
occur last night. Now, even though I had finder charts and all downloaded off
the web, I wanted to check the azimut of the star at the time of the
occultation, as my observing "window" from balcony is limited.

I fired up Guide, and found the asteroid in question to be way off target. Huh?
What's happening? After messing around a bit, I realized that I was indeed
obserwing from the Sun.

Now, is there a way to include the location name in the Legend? You may display
lat/lon data there, but that doesn't help much when the celestial body those
coords apply to doesn't show.

This also makes me think of another feature I'd like to see in Guide, namely a
better way to switch between locations. I guess many of us have a small set of
observing places, like home, dark site, holiday residence etc, observatory etc.
I know that this can be taken care of by saving marks, but a mark includes much
more. I'd like to set up Guide to show a phenomenon, and then have a simple way
to switch between sites to see the differences. Among other things.

Best regards,

Arild :)

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