Bill,

The problem with being asked for a password was operator error; I
forgot I had Guide running and minimized when I tried to update
guide8.exe. Sorry about being asleep.

I turned off the labels, but I had to disable B1 so I could find an
appropriate star. With B1 running, there were too many stars
confusing the picture. As soon as B1 was off, I could see the labels
were associated with CMC14 stars not the fainter B1 stars.

I was surprised when those labels suddenly appeared after the update.

Thanks,
Joe

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> Every now and then, somebody mentions being asked for a
> password when opening 'guide8.zip'. That's not supposed to
> happen. I'm assuming it means the file got corrupted when
> downloaded, but I've heard about it maybe a dozen times now;
> that seems like a lot of corrupted files. (And I would
> expect that there's some error-checking within a ZIP file,
> such that corruption would result in an error message, not
> a request for a password.) All very strange!
>
> "...The only problem is my screen is full of 15 digit
> RA+Dec positions; I need to figure out how to get rid of them."
> Those are the B1.0 designations. There are two ways to get
> rid of them.
>
> The way I'd recommend would be to right-click on a B1.0
> star. You'll get the usual short dialog giving its designation,
> magnitudes, rise/set times, and so forth. Among the buttons
> underneath will be a "Display" button. Click on that one.
>
> You'll then get a dialog offering controls over how B1.0
> stars are displayed, including a "Label" check-box. Use
> this to shut off the labels.
>
> The reason I recommend this is because it's very general.
> Any time you see something on the screen in Guide and you want
> to turn it off, or change its colors, or toggle its labels,
> or just want to find out what it is... right-click on it. If
> Guide had one of those "tip of the day" features, this would
> probably be the first tip shown.
>
> The second way to get rid of them would be to use Extras...
> Toggle User-Added Datasets, then select "USNO B1.0 (from hard
> drive)". That would get you to the same Display dialog. It's
> nowhere near as intuitive, but if you don't happen to have B1.0
> stars turned on and in the field of view, you obviously can't
> just right-click on one of them.
>
> -- Bill
>