Hi all,

when observing I use a local webpage to list all objects I am going
to look at. For every object I keep links that point to a local .bat
file that looks as follows:
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c:
cd ../../../../../../../../
cd GUIDE8
guide8.exe -om31
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Clicking on those links starts the (dedicated) .bat file and I get
the Guide window positioned on this very object. This is really an
excellent feature of Guide and it saves me a lot of time.
Check it out ?
http://eyes4skies.de/Internet/Astro/CrossRef/Crossref.htm#gx-lg
(pls click on yellow ID-inks)

What I'd really love to have though is a simple but generalized
positioning option (named 'x' or whatever) like e.g.
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guide8.exe -x125959+900000
guide8.exe -xAAAAAA+DDDDDD
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stating that guide should start up at some artifical position
Alpha=<AAAAAA> and Delta=<+DDDDDD> (with all other setting taken over
from last startup). This would allow free + easy positioning with any
coordinates I already have. So I am no longer restricted to Messier,
ngc, ic and ugc stuff only.

I know there are markup files, but would this be much more lean +
relatively cheap in terms of code change efforts ?

Thanks for any comments.
Best wishes,
Peter