Thanks Bill. I look forward to using it.

Julian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 10:38 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Update posted


> Hi folks,
>
> I've posted an "in testing" update at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
>
> Improvements are the fix to getting MPC elements, some new
> satellites of other planets, and the ability to limit the number
> of asteroids shown. This last is of particular importance. I'm
> finding that as we get to about a half million asteroids, the
> program can really bog down.
>
> I've also made a possible fix to the Vista/Win7 toolbar issue.
>
> Any reports will be most welcome. This is essentially the software
> I expect to release as Guide 9. The difference will be that with the
> Guide 9 DVD, I'll be able to provide updated datasets (the ones
> on the original disks are getting horrifying out of date in some
> cases), and some new ones; in particular, the UCAC-3 catalog.
> I was able to compress UCAC-3 considerably, a good thing considering
> that the raw catalog consumes eight GBytes.
>
> However, Guide 9 will be on one DVD, not two CDs... there was
> just no way to get everything I wanted onto two CDs!
>
> The use of DVD will have a couple of advantages. I think a lot of
> people never saw the nifty things on the second Guide disk (things
> such as the detailed lunar map and the images of DSOs when one zooms
> in). It's not really all that difficult to swap disks and run the
> "Install to Hard Drive" process, but it's not something that occurs
> to people naturally. My hope is that with Guide 9, more people will
> get to see all the good stuff, not just what's on disk 1.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
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