Thank you Bill, John, Bernd.

I am now more able to find specific binaries in Guide8.

Using TheSky6 Pro has no problem in finding these items.
It just has other different things that don't work as well
as Guide8.

Regards
Vincent

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Having trouble entering Double
Star name


> Hi John, Vincent,
>
> Something odd here...
>
> For B 347, I can use Go To... Star... Double Star;
> click
> on the "B Bos, W. H. van den" line; enter 347; and it
> centers on the double in question. Similarly, for I 34,
> I can click on "I Innes, R.T.A", and enter 34.
>
> In theory, I should have been able to use Go To...
> Object Name and enter "B 347" or "I 34" and go to the
> correct
> object. It turns out that I made a blunder here, in
> which
> I assumed three-letter double-star discoverer IDs. So
> (for example) STF 2398 works. But for the examples you
> give,
> it works only if you use _two_ spaces between the letter
> and
> number ("B 347", for example). I've fixed this in the
> "in-testing" update.
>
> LDS (the Luyten Double Star catalog) doesn't work,
> because
> it wasn't referenced in WDS a while back. I've fixed
> this;
> if you go to http://www.projectpluto.com/extras.htm#WDS
> and download the 'wds_new.zip' file provided therein,
> you can extract 'double.nam' from it. You can then use
> Go To... Object Name, enter "LDS 411", and Guide will
> center on the double star.
>
> It shouldn't really be necessary to use Go To... TDF
> Object. Though as John describes, you can _make_ it work
> that way, too.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
>
>
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