I spoke too soon. Bill I have been playing with the results and here
what I see, bands of star 0.5 degrees apart when field < 1 degree, ie
55arcmin. Turn the label on and see the results. Bands of 0.5 degree
with bands of no labels or uc3 stars. I have also been playing with your
code, translating in Delphi. I had to create a new bin file as the one
on the dvd does not match your codes "u3index.unf" versus "bin".

More on this as I work on it.

Denis

Bernd Brinkmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> I received my dvd for the ucac3 star catalog today. Installed it on my
>> hard drive, set Guide to read it and all displayed fine. I have not turn
>> off GSC yet but eventually will. Fair size chunk of data at around 8
>> gig. I will make a copy of the dvd for the Guide users around my
>> location. Great work on quickly writing the codes for access.
>
> nearly the same for me. I received the DVD 10 days ago, copied it to my
> external USB HD, set the path in Guide and it worked. Thanks Bill.
>
> Clear skies
> Bernd