P. Clay Sherrod Aug 30, 2009
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From: "Roger Pickard" <roger.pickard@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: UCAC3 from VizieR in Guide 8 - a howto
> Hi Clay,
>
> I've had this problem with .tdf's only being saved as .txt files. One
> way around it is to _rename_ the file to .tdf. That should work.
>
> Roger
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ucac3temp" <ucac3temp@...>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:18 AM
> Subject: [guide-user] Re: UCAC3 from VizieR in Guide 8 - a howto
>
>
>> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@...>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Again, thanks....
>>> I have doubled checked everything, and all appears to be installed
>>> and written correctly
>>> as you described. The only issue that I can see that does not
>>> appear right is the .tdf
>>> file, which I copied into a .txt text editing file as instructed.
>>> however, when I save it
>>> to file, it continues to SAVE as a .txt file, not a .tdf file, even
>>> if I place the .tdf
>>> extension on the copy I am attempting to save.
>>>
>>> Something is amiss in the way I am attempting to write this per
>>> your
>>> instructions....please understand that I am absolutely sure your
>>> instructions are
>>> valid....this is USER ERROR plain and simple.
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated. I could send you the three files that I
>>> constructed if that
>>> helps....thanks much.
>>
>> Okay, I may have missed a coupla basics out.
>>
>> No data will show until you've pressed the download button.
>>
>> There's probably a limit in Guide to stop you downloading too wide a
>> field. VizieR certainly won't accept anything over ten degrees.
>>
>> So, start Guide. Close it down and restart, that's often a good
>> idea when changing things in Guide. Start Guide, zoom into a LEVEL
>> where the field width is about one degree or less, don't want to
>> download too much. Press the UCAC3 button on the toolbar at top of
>> Guide.
>>
>> Download dialogue should pop up.
>>
>> When it's complete start right clicking on likely looking stars and
>> press More Info until one has a name starting "3UCAC".
>>
>> You may just be missing this point. If you've got UCAC2 installed
>> you'll already have a star of very similar magnitude and almost the
>> exact same position already plotted up in Guide 8, so you've to keep
>> clicking the NEXT button to move on to the next dataset.
>>
>> ie the star is there, but you ain't seeing it because it is hidden
>> by others.
>>
>> If you got to the yahoo files I've also included a zip file, you can
>> download that as a zip file and take the .tdf from it, I'll try and
>> send you a copy separately via attachment too. This should stop
>> this .txt problem or any cut and paste issue.
>>
>> Again, after that, if it still doesn't work, as it seems Bill's
>> already working on this, better to wait for his more straightforward
>> updates.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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