Hi Don,

If what you're looking for is to have Guide _start up_
always looking due south (azimuth=180) at altitude 75
degrees or so, then the thing to do is to click on your
desktop shortcut to Guide and alter the command line to
look like this:

guide8 -oA180,75

This tells Guide 8 to start up looking at an "object"
at alt/az (180, 75). To get this to work, you _may_
need to be using the current 'in-testing' version at

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

One of the new features listed there is "extended
command-line options". It also contains a link to the
full list of command line options at

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

Unfortunately, there isn't a command-line option
to force a particular field of view. Best I can offer
is this: set level 2 to be 100 degrees across. If you
look in 'toolbar.dat', you'll see that the action code
to set level 2 is 2381. Now change the command line I
initially suggested to read

guide8 -oA180,75 -a2381

and you'll be all set.

None of this revises the 'go to South' option to put
you at a different altitude. That's hard-coded at present,
to put the horizon 90% of the way down from the top of the
chart.

-- Bill