Hi Bill,
Just tell me that the Guide 9.0 will be able to interface with my
new RCX400 Meade scope and I will buy it.
Patrick

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Bernard Heathcote" <bd-
heath@b...> wrote:

>
> Hi Bill,
> Great to hear that G9 in in the pipeline but must I sadly

conclude,

> as it isn't mentioned, that the supported scope mounts will still

not

> include the ASCOM system?
>
> Bernard Heathcote
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've mostly just mumbled when asked about Guide 9. This is
> > partly because Guide 9 has been "just around the corner" for a
> > long time now; I keep running into one reason or another to
> > delay it. I will continue to mumble about the schedule. It's
> > been embarrassing to tell people it's due at such-and-such a
> > time, only to find myself wrong each time.
> >
> > I can _definitely_ say this, though: people who order
> > Guide 8 within six months of the release of Guide 9 will get
> > an automatic free upgrade. (I've done this with each previous
> > version: order Guide N just before the upgrade, and you get
> > N+1 free of charge. A lot of people order without knowing an
> > upgrade is about to be released, and could be justifiably
> > annoyed if I asked them for another $30 or so just after
> > shelling out money for the software.)
> >
> > The software itself will not differ tremendously from that
> > provided with Guide 8 plus the update on the Web site. The
> > datasets will be very different: most deep-sky catalogs have
> > changed quite a bit since Guide 8 was released, and the
> > asteroid data on the CDs is becoming woefully out of date.
> > (Though 'mpcorb' provides a way around this.) I may be able to
> > replace GSC-ACT with the final version of UCAC. If not, I
> > should be able to replace it with UCAC-2, thereby giving us
> > excellent star data over most of the sky.
> >
> > As was mentioned a few weeks back on this list, the
> > variable star catalogs available now are a lot better than
> > those from past years. A lot of errors have been cleaned up,
> > and of course, some new variable stars have been found.
> >
> > I've been vacillating between offering Guide 9 on two (or
> > three) CD-ROMs, and offering it on DVD. I'm now pondering
> > offering it on _both_, though the DVD could obviously have
> > room to contain some wonders missing from the CD-ROMs.
> >
> > -- Bill
> >
>