Hi Dave,

I'm afraid I have no idea why some asteroids should show 2 X's now. The
only reason I know of is if you update a previous comets.dat, that is
full of asteroids. i.e. updated before.
As far as I know Soft02Unusuals only imports asteroids and Soft02CMT
brings in comets.
Just one idea has just come to me.. do you use MPCORB.dat from the MPC?
If so, and you import asteroids from Soft02Unusuals, there will be 2
entries for certain asteroids.. hence 2 X's

Thats all I can think of, hope this helps.

Best Regards

Alan

In message <go4ckn+p9tr@...>, Dave Birmingham
<lone_scope2000@...> writes

>
> Hello Alan,
>
> Thank you for the suggestion. I got brave enough today to take your
> advice and I copied my comets.dat file to another folder and edited
> the original and then wiped everything out saving it with only a
> '0'
> on the first line. I then downloaded the two aforementioned files
> from the MPC and my comet.dat file went to 854. Though I do not see
> double entries Guide8 is still showning double 'X' designators for
> asteroids like 2009 DZ, 2009 CO5, etc. There seems to be no
> commonality as far as the distances between the designators as some
> are more than 125" while others are only a few seconds apart or
> even
> almost on top of one another.
>
> This duplication really makes it confusing to properly center the
> selected object.
>
> Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Dave
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Alan Cahill <neoprog@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > What I do is keep a spare Comets.dat that is set to 0. Then when
> I
> need
> > to get rid of all of the old data, I just copy it to the Guide
> > directory.
> > I have a spare copy on my website at
> >
> > http://www.mountabbeydale.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/comets.dat
> >
> > I also back up the old file.. in case!
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Alan
> >

Alan Cahill (J94)
Abbeydale Observatory,
Gloucester.
UK
http://mountabbeydale.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk