Bertrand
I would look at the CGPN 2000 as that is perhaps more up-to-date
or even the MASH catalogue if you want to update the PN catalogues in Guide

Owen

At 21:57 16/07/2007 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi Bill and All,
>
>I am in the process of making an extrafile concerning the Strasbourg-ESO
>Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (PNG).
>I think this catalogue will be a real improvement for Guide users, since
>the PK, which is the basic catalogue included in the Guide CDs
>is becoming a bit old, and rather out of date.
>The PNG, even released in 1982, is still now, the most extended catalogue
>concerning PNs. But it is in an uneasy way to be compiled
>in a .dat file. I must gather a bunch of canned files, through a big file,
>the lines of which are very long.
>So, here is my question: what is the lenght (number of caracters) of lines
>that Guide accepts for a .dat file before crashing?
>
>Thanks
>
>Bertrand
>
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Owen Brazell



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