Bill,

Disregard my last message.
The observatory computer works Guide8 well.
I've just got to find what I've done differently with the
home computer.

Vincent

----- Original Message -----
From: "vgardiner" <vgardiner@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Having trouble entering Double
Star name


> 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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