Thanks Bill - I shall check this out.

Another wierdo: although targets like IC434 are clearly shown, the goto
IC434 command returns "not a valid object".

Any clues?

TIA

Lawrence

> From: Bill J Gray <pluto@...>
> Subject: Re: Re-installation problems
>
> Hi Lawrence,
>
> Much may depend on what items are being shown on-screen. I'd go
> into "Data Shown" and start turning things off. (Asteroids and comets
> can be major culprits, if shown to a faint magnitude level or from a
> location other than the Earth.)
>
> If that fails, I'd go to Extras... Toggle User-Added Datasets. It
> could be that you've some large, slow dataset displayed.
>
> Also: you may find that if you stare closely at the screen while
> it's being drawn, you'll see that (say) the stars appear almost
> instantly, then there's a long pause, then the legend and other items
> appear. Something like that can be a good clue as to what aspect of the
> display is consuming all of the time.
>
> -- Bill