This is exactly what I did!!

Don

Bill J Gray wrote:

>
> Hi Don,
>
> Sorry, there's a nomenclature issue here: by
> 'geo mode', I basically just meant 'eclipse/occultation/
> transit mode'.
>
> There is also a well-hidden option, 'Toggle Geographic
> Mode'. This option is not enabled by default. All it
> does is to switch Guide from showing the sky to showing
> the earth, with daylight areas in blue and twilight areas
> in three bands. (I've had various other thoughts for use
> of this mode, such as showing satellite ground tracks.
> But right now, eclipse/occultation/transit and geo mode
> are the only options.)
>
> To get at that well-hidden option, you need to edit
> 'toolbar.dat'. As is described at the end of that file,
> the toolbar file contains a _lot_ of options that are considered
> too minor or too experimental to be enabled by default, but
> instructions are given for enabling toolbar buttons.
>
> Once a toolbar button is enabled, you can assign a hotkey
> to it, through the Settings... Toolbar dialog. By default,
> 'm' brings up the Messier list. But as Larry mentioned, you
> can reset that.
>
> -- Bill
>
>

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