Hi Roger,

I haven't done any occultation observing since 1986, so I'm pretty
much out of touch. Hopefully, someone more currently knowledgeable
will show up. Please give us more info.

Lunar or planetary occultation of the star? Where did you see the
prediction given? Did it give a time (local or UT) and latitude and
longitude? If only the name of a small town near Jacksonville, what
town? For grazes the exact location is important. I have Guide set to
only show stars brighter than 6th magnitude, but I'll install another
db if it's fainter than that. (My interest is naked eye observations
of historical eclipses.) I'll set Guide at Jacksonville and try to
identify a better catalog number for it. ZC is pretty old.

Glad to hear you tried the thumb drive. Sometimes it's useful to have
two copies open.

Larry


At 08:40 12/9/2006, you wrote:

>Does Guide include the ZC star catalog that is used in occultations by
>planetary bodies? If so, how does one find a specific ZC star? We
>have a graze very near us in Jacksonville, FL coming up on 12/23 and
>the star is ZC3090. If this ability is not already built into Guide,
>perhaps it could be put in for an update or the next major version of
>Guide.
>
>Also, thanks to the person that mentioned running Guide from a thumb
>drive. I tried it and it works. I did not bother with the LEDA
>galaxies, the foreign language support, or images but have everything
>else in about 700 Mb or so and it runs reasonably fast using a USB2 1
>gig thumb drive. Very useful!
>
>Clear skies,
>Roger
>Jacksonville, FL
>
>

Laren Dart
http://ldart.got.net
photography and writing