At 06:03 AM 3/26/2007, you wrote:

>Hi Larry,
>
>"...Is it possible to turn off lunar shadow images and times
>in eclipse paths? The paths seem cluttered in the new version
>compared to the way they were."
>
>(For those wondering what Larry's talking about: by default,
>when you make a solar eclipse chart in Guide, you'll now see
>circles indicating the coverage of the eclipse at 15-minute
>intervals, plus text showing the time at one-hour intervals.)
>
>Click on Settings... Mark Interval, and enter an "interval"
>of zero. If you decide you'd really like to have the marks at,
>say, five-minute intervals, then enter 5 instead. And so on.
>
>If you'd like every sixth marker to have text indicating the
>time, then click on Settings... Mark Interval again, and
>enter "i6".
>
>(This does need a better user interface. Also needed for
>eclipse charts are better controls over the density of city/town
>place names. You _can_ hit + to get more cities and - to get
>fewer cities; you get about seven different levels of density,
>from "major metropolises only" to "small cities shown".)
>
>-- Bill

Hi Bill,

Thanks for responding on this. This info, and info on how to precess
the eclptic line in D0, may seem trivial, but not in
searching/researching historic eclipses. The new update is great!

Larry


Laren Dart
http://ldart.got.net