Thanks Bill for the info. I do not have USNO A2 data downloaded but all off
them on disk. So only the second method works.
In case of USNO B1.0 data, which are downloaded then only the first method
works, right?

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: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] How to find USNO A2 stars


> Hi Josch,
>
> You _could_ go through the process you suggest, using
> "Go To... TDF Object... USNO A2.0 data (downloaded from ESO)".
> You could then enter, for example, "0975_03141592", and
> find that particular star. That is, Guide would find it
> _if_ you had downloaded the data for that star.
>
> The method Bertrand suggested, which gets the A2.0 data
> from the full 6.3 GByte dataset, is usually a lot easier!
>
> -- Bill
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