>Re: showing galaxies etc
> Posted by: "Bill J Gray" pluto@... feliks314159
> Date: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:31 pm ((PST))
>
>> Currently, my Guide-8 shows only the small galaxies images when I am using
>> 60' fov. Is there a setting to get small images displayed at wider fov?
>
>Hi Lawrence,
>
> There are two key settings here. In Extras... DSS/RealSky images,
>you can set the fields of view at which the images are shown. If you
>ask for all images to be shown at a really wide field of view, you'll
>have quite a wait; hundreds of images may be shown.
>
> The second setting lets you exclude images that would be really
>tiny. Hit Alt-J and enter a line such as
>
>MIN_IMG_SIZE=80
>
> for example, and Guide will drop out images smaller than 80 pixels
>across. So the really small images will be ignored at wide fields of
>view. (The default is 40 pixels.)

Hello Bill

Yup - I know the theory from way back - but it just doesn't work for me.
Take NGC1637 as an example. On a 60' arc fov, it shows the image. I set
the extras setting for 0 to pick-any-number and it simply does not show on
anything wider than fov 60'. Make it 2deg and the image has gone. No
setting works.

regards

Lawrence