trvsfn Aug 30, 2009
--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks....still struggling, but John has checked over all my rewritten files and all are
> okay....simply cannot connect.
>
> Clay
> _____
> Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
> Arkansas Sky Observatories
> MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
> MPC H43 - Conway West
> http://www.arksky.org/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
> >
> >
> > ----- 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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