Re: [guide-user] Anyway to search guide datasets ?

Bernd Brinkmann Nov 12, 2004

Hello Scott,

> Is there anyway to search the Guide datasets ? For example search
> for all galaxies in Pegasus with a major axis diameter greater than
> 3.00" ? Or all of the NGC/IC objects with a diameter greater than
> 3.00" ? I'm trying to simplify finding imaging targets that are off
> of the beaten path.

I know of no way to do this within Guide. What I have just done is to
open the "Ngc2000.dat"-file (or any other ASCII-file) in Excel and
filtered the data (DATA|FILTER|AUTOFILTER). Then you can set your
filter criteria with the drop down arrows in the first row. In column B
set "Gx", in column F set "Peg" and in column G user defined ("larger
or equal" "0.3"). This gives me a list of 141 objects out of 13225. This
list can now be sorted and saved.

Hope this helps.
Clear skies
Bernd


Bernd Brinkmann

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