Hi Roger,

Yes, there is.
Not content with having my location set to "Berowra" (type it in to see,
you need the australi.zip file from Bill), I entered where I live in
Berowra Heights into Egeo_err.dat. All of 4kms away from Berowra.
Try to get this spot on by using a geo map with marked lat and long lines.
I didn't get it right the first time and found myself in the Pacific doing
Australian Crawl.
If you get the australi.zip file then Egeo_err.dat will be full of
Australian place names, some of which are tiny outback towns or cattle
stations. If not then it will have some place names that have been
corrected from all over the world.

Anyway, enter a lat and long in degrees and minutes and a place name
like "Roger in Titicaca", save it and your off...

I still haven't worked out how to do LOI in this file. It's probably been
discussed though.

It's a good time to come to the south, Sagittarius and Scorpius overhead as
is Omega Cent and Crux and Centaurus and Carina and Puppis and Vela and
well need I say more, plus you will probably get the LMC and SMC at some
early hour.<gloat>
Just remember to work out how to polar align south of the border, though.
Tricky stuff.
If you have an eq mount, also make sure it can work at low latitude. When I
went to Curacao in 98 I had to get my mount engineered to go past 15 deg (I
was at 12 deg).

If you want to know some off the beaten track Sthn DSO's then I can help.

Cheers

James


At 05:21 09-04-00 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi, Guiders,
>
>This summer I will be going to Lake Titicaca in Bolivia for the
>Southern Skies Star Party. Between now and June, I plan to be
>getting myself acquainted with the southern sky by using Guide.
>
>Can anyone tell me how to save my Lake Titicaca location so
>that I can return to it easily without having to manually
>input the Lat and Lon? I take it that there is some editable
>text file that I can add the location to. Bill, will v.8
>have a dialog box for saving different observing sites?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>BTW, anyone else on the list on the same trip?
>
>Clear skies,
>
>
>Roger
>
>
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