John, about the NGC-IC problem: I goofed here. When I put the code
together, that file was posted on the
http://www.ngcic.com site as
REVNGC2.TXT. Now, it's REVNGC.TXT. That's why you had to rename it.
I'll be posting an update that looks for either name (easy enough to
do), in hopes of evading the mess I've created.
Still, you _did_ rename it; there should be no further problem
that I know of. Anyone else seen this?
I played around with a Millennium "clone" mark a while ago... the
result I got follows. Save this message as MILLENNI.MAR (or just the
lines between 'start of mark' and 'end of mark'), and you'll see it
listed in the "Load a Mark" box. You may have to play around with the
font you're using and with the margins (some printers have different
ideas as to where they ought to be.)
The Millennium atlas did cause me to make a few changes to Guide over
the last year or so. For example:
http://www.projectpluto.com/update7b.htm#proper_motion_vectors
(displaying stars with lines indicating their proper motion over
1000 years)
http://www.projectpluto.com/update7b.htm#side_labels
(putting RA/dec labels outside the charts when printing, with
choices as to which sides get labelled)
http://www.projectpluto.com/extras.htm#millennium
(ability to show the layout of the Millennium atlas, as a user-added
dataset)
http://www.projectpluto.com/rare_q.htm#spacing
(setting oddball grid/tick/side label spacings. This matters because
the spacing used on the Millennium charts is not one of those given in
the "Spacings" dialog box in Guide.)
http://www.projectpluto.com/future.htm#separate_legend
(some thoughts for future improvements, in which you could just tell
Guide to make a "Millennium left-hand-page" or "right-hand page" chart,
or a "Uranometria-style" chart, and so on)
-- Bill
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