Hi Bill, Hi All,

As you suggested, I downloaded the "last" new update, that is the 7 october one.
As far as I can juge, all seems working properly:
- U3 stars are correctly named 3UCxxx-yyyyyy, and displayed accordingly on the screen, in the info window and the more info one.
- when I use the Go-to name option, Guide "goes" towards the right star, that is the star I named in the window of the option.

A thousand thanks, Bill.

Bertrand

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill J Gray
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] UCAC-3 naming


Hi Bertrand,

I think some files must have been missing in that update
for you to see this misbehavior. As it happens, I've just
posted yet another update, with a few changes unrelated to
UCAC-3. (You can 'sync' ASCOM scopes, and I swapped in SDSS7
in place of SDSS6.) But I'm pretty sure that all files are
now present, so the problem should go away.

What happened was that for a while, the "official" way to
number UCAC-3 stars was by their MPOS number. This number,
running up to a bit past 140 million, is apparently intended
for USNO's internal use; it's not really relevant for the rest
of us, best as I can tell. So USNO shifted to a new numbering
scheme, '3UC' plus a three-digit zone number (from 1 to 360),
a '-', plus a six-digit number. So, for example, '3UC314-159265'
would be a valid identifier. ('3U' was already taken, by a
radio catalog.)

When you entered '3UC137-322711', Guide found the right star
with that identifier, but when you clicked on it, you got the
old MPOS number. This is now fixed.

More about all this at

http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm#ucac3_modified

-- Bill





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