Re: [guide-user] Re: Having trouble entering Double Star name

vgardiner Sep 2, 2009

G'day Bill,

It is starting to work, but here is a particular one that
you can decide why it wont be found.

Goto J2000, 16h 10m 22s -48 58' 02".
There you will see B 2800AB-C.
Try to put that name into the "Goto" and it will not be
accepted.

Look in the WDS at 16104-4858B 2800AB-C. There it is, but
using that sequence wont do any good either.
I've tried many different sequences, and none work.

Just a bit of info for you.

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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