Hello, Josch/Bill and others,

I think there is something more going on because I have exactly the same problem as Josch.
Downloading USNO-B1.0 data has worked for several months without problems.
The problem started after downloading an update for Internet Explorer7 some 2 or 3 weeks ago. I do not understand how this can be connected but apparently it was.
I reinstalled the software and the updates but I could never get the download for the USNO-B1.0 stars working again.
On the site for Guide8 there is an explanation about the downloading of USNO-B1.0 stars but this instruction is incomplete.
It says: ii) urlificate thuswards :- http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=USNO-B1.0 but it does not tell me WHERE I should enter this url.
I can see that at the moment Guide is trying to download the USNO-B1.0 stars from the archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/...... url which probably does not exist anymore, instead of the VizierR url.
Perhaps Guide is using some kind of outdated settings file for this?
I would appreciate a solution for this because I use the download of USNO-B1.0 quite a lot.
By the way, the downloading of 2MASS and UCAC2 is suffering from the same issue (but I hardly use those) and I can see when they start the download that they also try to connect
to the archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/...... url.


Regards,

Geert Hoogeveen

----- Original Message -----
From: Josch Hambsch
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Downloading B1.0 stars


Hi Bill,

it worked flawlessly the first time I used it in a star field and since then
I could not get any more data. I tried several fields at different places.
Maybe if you give it a try and report?

You could try around GSC star 919 1647. I did not succeed. It says "A
connection with the server could not be established".

BTW to search for USNO A2.0 stars also did not work the way you explained
some mails ago.

Thanks for your help,

Josch Hambsch

http://www.astronomie.be/hambsch
http://users.pandora.be/hambsch/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Downloading B1.0 stars

> Hi Josch,
>
> You shouldn't have to delete anything before downloading more B1.0
> data. Downloads should simply accumulate. When you want to get rid of
> all the data, just click on a B1.0 star, then "more info", and you'll
> see a line reading "click here to delete accumulated data".
>
> I'd try again (could be the server was having trouble). If it's
> still not working, it might be good to know at what RA/dec you ran into
> the problem; maybe it's a location-specific problem.
>
> I vaguely recall that at one time, someone in Europe was providing
> B1.0 on USB hard disks. Unfortunately, I never got any details on
> this. He couldn't ship to the US, due to Customs restrictions
> (probably worried the hard disk contained instructions to terrorists or
> some such). Barring that, getting a disk from USNO (if possible) would
> be your best bet, as Mike O'Shaughnessy suggests.
>
> -- Bill
>
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