There is indeed something wrong.

Going to PRZ 6AB , it goes, but neither star nor labels are plotted.

Fiddling and tweaking the tdf, like removing sort, and changing toler
values

Aha! It seems the simple answer is to change sort 1 to sort 0!!!

WDS isn't quite sorted exactly, nearly, but not quite, especially if
Bill's little executable program is run to fill in the empty J2000
coordinates for the lost objects. The toler command looks after that,
or used to, it appears to not quite weigh in right in this case.

Probably a good idea to put # in front of the t in toler. That is if
there's toler used in the 2005 tdf.

A vaguely remember that over the years Bill has improved the inherent
handling of unsorted and the like files such that toler might not
quite be needed anymore, maybes there's a conflict. Dunno.

Meanwhile, download this

http://ad.usno.navy.mil/wds/wdsweb_summ.txt

read this about putting back in the empty coords

http://www.projectpluto.com/extras.htm#WDS

downloading and running the proggie in dos against wdsweb_summ.txt
(remember to back up first, just in case) and then this TDF should
work fine with the latest slightly upgraded again WDS 2006.5 (notice
I've called it wds.dat and stored it in the Guide directory, you've to
rename the words after the first line in the tdf if you call it
something else).

Cut and paste the following into an ascii editor and save in the Guide
directory as WDS.tdf or WDS2006p5.tdf if you prefer.

You shouldn't have to mess about with vooodooo to get labels now.

Actually, toler shouldn't matter, but the WDS being nearly sorted,
containing more than one object of the exact same position at times,
and the like seems to cause vagaries, and just ditching toler and sort
1 being ditched or set to 0 fixes these, but on older slower machines
this might mean some plotting up of the screen might be slowed down a
bit for wide fields if doubles are displayed.

Something like that. Put it this way, it fixed the problem, even if I
don't really understand why! ;) I can now see PRZ 6AB and AC again,
even if they probably don't really exist.

Cheers

John

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file wds.dat
title WDS 2006.5
RA H 113 2
RA M 115 2
RA S 117 5
de d 122 3
de m 125 2
de s 127 4
mag 59 5
text 11 13
~b 11 13 %s
~r 1 10 = WDS%s
~b 1 1 \n\n
~r113 8 RA 2000 : %R\n
~r122 7 Dec2000 : %D\n\n
~b 59 5 mag %s
~b 65 5 and %s
~b111 1 %s
~b 65 5 \n
~b 47 5 \nrho %s arcsecs
~b 24 4 in %s
~b 53 5 \nrho %s arcsecs
~b 29 4 in %s
~b 39 3 \ntheta %s degrees
~b 24 4 in %s
~b 43 3 \ntheta %s degrees
~b 29 4 in %s
~b 39 4 \n
~b 81 4 \nmu RAcos[Dec] %s mas/y\n
~b 90 4 mu RAcos[Dec] %s mas/y\n
~b 85 4 mu Dec %s mas/y\n
~b 94 4 mu Dec %s mas/y\n
~b 71 9 \nSpectral Type %s\n
~r 99 9 \nDM %s\n
~r 1 1 \n
~b109 0 O Orbit\n
~b109 0 C Linear & Orbit\n
~b109 0 L Linear\n
~b109 0 P mu is 10mas/y\n
~b109 0 X Dubious\n
~b109 0 Y Optical\n
~b109 0 Z Physical\n
~r110 0 D deltaM cat\n
~b111 0 I ID Uncertain\n

#pref WDS
epoch 2000
type 6
sort 0
label spaces
goto spaces
goto case
field 0.00 50.00
mag lim 180
shown 1
end
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--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Wiley" <edwiley@...> wrote:
>
> My apologies for all these posts, but there is some vodo magic going
> on that might be of interest.
>
> 1. With Star Display, Mag. Label Limit = 0, the WDS (current) displays
> with lables. (Neve thought I would fool with it this much!)
>
> 2. With Star Diaplay, Mag. limit = any +/- value except "0", the WDS
> disappears.
>
> Looks like there is a conflict with displaying magnitudes and
> displaying WDS names, at least in my version.
>
> Ed
>
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Wiley" <edwiley@> wrote:
> >
> > Follow-up on my original post:
> >
> > After working with GUIDE8 a bit, I think it is recognizing the 2005
> > WDS catalogue(WDS(current)). Toggle WDS (current) and untoggle WDS: I
> > can still call up a double (say POU 3347)through the Go To name and
> > Guide navigates to that position. But, no data are displayed. If I
> > toggle WDS2001, I get a white dot and green magnitudes, but no label
> > associated with the double, making it hard to pick out the position of
> > the double relative to stars in the field. Perhaps this extra info
> > will allow Bill or someone else to narrow the problem parameters?
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Wiley" <edwiley@> wrote:
> > >
> > > A problem and a couple of questions.
> > >
> > > Problem: I have never had any luck getting the WDS 2005 catalogue
> > > downloaded from the PP site to display in Guide 8. At the root
level I
> > > have the files downlaoded:
> > >
> > > wds_new.tdf (unzipped)
> > > wds_out.txt
> > > wdsweb_summ.txt
> > >
> > > In the WDS folder (C:\GUIDE8/WDS) I have
> > > PPM2WDS.INDX
> > > WDS2001.DAT
> > >
> > > The User data set does list "WDS Current" as an option, but no data.
> > >
> > > I am not too smart about programming. Do I need to do some
moving and
> > > re-naming of files?
> > >
> > > Question 1: Anyone converting the WDS 2006.5?
> > > Question 2: In the adjust datasets window: what does the
dialogue box
> > > "Show at" mean??What is the significance of the values like 0-15?
> > > Magnitudes? I could not find this in the documentation.
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Ed
> > >
> >
>