Hi Peter,

I was going to tell you: "That's easy: you can specify the
RA/dec as an object. For example,

guide8 -o031415.9,-265358 -tsep

will cause Guide to start up centered on 03h14m15.9s,
-26 53' 58", with the starting time set to September of the
current year."

Fortunately, I checked this out before telling you all this.
It turns out that Guide only got this right with positive
declinations; it interpreted negative decs as new options.
I have fixed this; the version at

http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm

should work correctly. It also fixes a bug that could cause
crashes at startup, as reported at the above page.

Other command line options are mentioned at

http://www.projectpluto.com/random.htm#command_line

-- Bill