Please consider this a sub-heading entitled fine-tuning B1.0 downloads.

Along the same lines as the ....from hard drive question, while Guide 8 makes it a snap to download a section of interest from the USNO B1.0, I haven't found any way to limit magnitudes or identifications in the download. At this time I'm not interested in the fainter 20 mag objects and can't see the forest for the trees. But changing the star magnitude limit has no effect on the download. Nor can I turn off the download labels. What am I missing?

Pete Peterson

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "vgardiner" <vgardiner@...> wrote:
>
> G'day Bill,
>
> Thanks for that info.
> I'm finding things a little difficult to relearn. I can't find the manual after
> several years.
>
> Vincent
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 3:36 AM
> Subject: [guide-user] Displaying/turning off B1.0 stars from hard drive
>
>
> > Hi Vincent,
> >
> > I assume you're running with B1.0 data from the hard drive,
> > as described at
> >
> > http://www.projectpluto.com/update8d.htm#b1_from_hard_drive
> >
> > The simplest way is probably just to right-click on a B1.0
> > star, then on "Display". You can then turn the B1.0 stars on,
> > or off, or to a fixed or varying magnitude; and/or you can
> > change the fields of view at which they are shown.
> >
> > Actually, this will work if the B1.0 stars are drawn from
> > the hard drive, or from Internet downloads. (A good thing to
> > remember in general: if you see something on a chart in Guide,
> > and want to turn it on/off/change color/change labelling, or
> > just want to know what it is, then right-click on that object,
> > then on "Display". If Guide had one of those "tip of the day"
> > features, I'd put this high on the list of Helpful Tips.)
> >
> > The problem then arises: suppose you want to turn the B1.0
> > stars back on? Go to Extras... Toggle User Datasets, look for
> > "USNO B1.0 from hard drive" dataset, and turn it on.
> >
> > -- Bill
> >
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