Bill,

When looking up V1279 Sco I get GSC 7851 143 with HK Lupis right next to it
at PA 168.2 deg at 8.6421" This is right on the Scorpius/Lupus border.

Success! The Galactic Nova works.

Julian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:29 PM
Subject: 0 Re: [SPAM] [guide-user] A brief history of errors


> Hi Julian,
>
> V1280 Sco hasn't been added to 'iii.dat' yet. (The file appears to
> be updated on some irregular schedule.) Can you 'go to' V1279 Sco?
> That one _is_ there, and should work.
>
> Just checked the galactic nova .TDF, and all appeared fine. Then
> I checked the file on the Web site; it was a version from about three
> weeks ago. I just replaced it with the current one; if you grab
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/galnovae.zip
>
> then the new object should appear. Thanks for mentioning this.
>
> Thanks also for the pointer on the AAVSO chart. Looks as if Mike
> Simonsen took the Guide chart as a base and added comparison star
> magnitudes and such. (In theory, it'd be nice to have the AAVSO
> comparison magnitudes as a user-added dataset... in practice, it
> would be one heck of a big job!)
>
> -- Bill
>
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