Mark Sep 28, 2009
--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "paul.may9348" <paul.may9348@...> wrote:
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> I am using Guide 8.0 to control my home-made 20" via Scope.exe, and it works like a dream ! But ...
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> Scope doesn't receive the object name, only the coordinates, so at the end of my session, I only have a list of coordinates in Scope - not easy to fill in my observing notes afterwards.
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> However, when it's time go to bed, I just close the lid on the laptop that runs Guide. Next morning I can wake up the laptop (Guide still running) and hit the P shortcut key. This redisplays every screen I viewed over the whole 3 hours (I've not found a limit yet !) Grrrreat feature, Bill ! If only, I could easily list/print the names of all the objects I visited last night - is there a way of listing the objects found by searching or just clicked on ?
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> Also, the More Information option is great too, but I don't want to read that a 36" scope in Nevada can hold that 18th mag central star steady under desert skies, when I'm in misty England with (only) a 20". Can I overwrite the standard notes with my own ?
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> I'm not complaining, by the way. Guide is perfect in most respects - light-years ahead of the more expensive competition.
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