Re: MAC galaxies

Scott Kranz Feb 25, 2009

To go to a specific LEDA galaxy I just click on "Go to", "Object
name", and then type in LEDA xxxxxxx.

-Scott

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Lawrence Harris <lawrence@...>
wrote:
>
> >Re: MAC galaxies
> > Posted by: "Bill J Gray" pluto@... feliks314159
> > Date: Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:02 pm ((PST))
> >
> >Hi Stuart,
> >
> > PGC and LEDA aren't quite the same thing.
> >
> > The first Guide disk has the smaller PGC catalog; the second
> >disk has the million-galaxy catalog. (Though some have suggested
> >to me that they think it's a million objects, most but not all of
> >which are galaxies.)
> >
> > If you put the second Guide disk into the CD-ROM, you can use
> >Extras... Toggle User-Added Datasets, then turn the "LEDA Million
> >Galaxies" dataset on.
> >
> > As has been mentioned elsewhere, the Mitchell catalogue is
still
> >proprietary, which has greatly limited its use anywhere except in
> >Megastar.
> >
> >-- Bill
>
> I felt that having the LEDA galaxies on would be useful so I just
did this. The
> GOTO/galaxies option still does not show LEDA.
>
> Lawrence
>