P. Clay Sherrod Apr 4, 2010
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From: "JS & EJ Gifford" <jamesgifford@...>
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Subject: RE: [guide-user] Update posted
> Making the assumption that Guide 9 will still reside entirely in its own
> directory, once you have it installed on one machine it should be a simple
> task to transfer it in chunks using whatever portable media your other
> machines will accept, including burning batches of files to your own CDs.
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> Regards, Jim.
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> From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of P. Clay Sherrod
> Sent: Sunday, 4 April 2010 6:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [guide-user] Update posted
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> Hi Bill and group.....
> This is a very nice update and I have been working through most of the
> changes; I
> particularly think that the ability to view all asteroids and comets within
> a selected
> field of view (for the purposes of confirming the possibility of a new
> object) is an
> excellent addition.
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> One note: I am having difficulty since updating (this may be a bug) using
> the EDIT
> feature for asteroids and comets under the Extras_Asteroid/Comet
> Options_Edit
> Asteroid/Comet Data_Delete (that is all that I have attempted to do). When I
> attempt to
> delete a selected asteroid (for example when I have entered one individually
> from the MPC
> Ephemeris service that no longer is needed), I get an Exception Error and it
> closes down
> the program completely.
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> Other than that I see this as a major step forward.
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> I am, however, a bit worried about the "DVD-only" aspect of the upcoming
> Guide9, since
> several of my long-time observatory computers are NOT DVD-literate. Do you
> have any
> suggestions as a work-around in this regard for older CD-only hardware?
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> As always, your efforts are much appreciated.
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> Dr. Clay
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> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
> MPC H43 - Conway West
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> From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@projectpluto. <mailto:pluto%40projectpluto.com>
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> To: <guide-user@yahoogro <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:38 PM
> Subject: [guide-user] Update posted
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>> Hi folks,
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>> I've posted an "in testing" update at
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>> http://www.projectp <http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm> luto.com/new.htm
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>> 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.
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>> I've also made a possible fix to the Vista/Win7 toolbar issue.
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>> 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.
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>> However, Guide 9 will be on one DVD, not two CDs... there was
>> just no way to get everything I wanted onto two CDs!
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>> 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.
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>> -- Bill
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