Well, cancel that problem that I noted with the update....the date simply has not been
changed apparently.
The update works excellently and I am able to access the UCAC-3 catalog quite well.
Now....if we can get things going for Charon and use this for astrometric and photometric
applications, we will be state of the art.

Much appreciated Bill....

Clay
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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: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:16 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Update for UCAC-3 display


> Hi folks,
>
> Those wishing to be on the cutting edge (I hope not
> "bleeding"!) can try the current "in-testing" version at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
>
> As described therein, I've posted an update that allows
> one to display UCAC-3 data in two different ways: either by
> grabbing chunks of data from VizieR, or by displaying the
> files to be supplied by USNO.
>
> At present, since the DVDs have yet to be distributed
> (and presumably will take a week or several weeks), only the
> first is of much consequence.
>
> Once you have the update unZIPped into your Guide folder,
> you should be able to zoom in on a desired area, then use
> Extras... Get Star Catalog Data... Get UCAC-3 data. After a
> bit of downloading, the UCAC-3 data for that area ought to
> appear on-screen.
>
> (Also, one can go into Settings... Toolbar, and enable
> a toolbar button and/or hotkey to cause Guide to do this sort
> of downloading.)
>
> For the nonce, this is the only new feature one can use.
> In a bit, when the data is shipped on DVD, you should be
> able to display that, too, using this update.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
>
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