Hi Bill,

Superb! Well done. Works for me.

Also the request earlier re making a list of asteroids, visible on the
screen works brilliantly!

You have excelled yourself this time.

A big thank you.

Best Regards

Alan


In message <4A9D810C.7080800@...>, Bill J Gray
<pluto@...> writes

>  
>
> 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
>

Alan Cahill (J94)
Abbeydale Observatory,
Gloucester.
UK
http://mountabbeydale.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk