Roger Curry Dec 10, 2006
--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Laren Dart <sandman@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>