P. Clay Sherrod Jul 24, 2010
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From: "Denis" <boucherd@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Star names at level 7 and below
> The OS is rarely a factor in Guide as Bill avoids using any Windows
> specific function calls. Specific types of graphics, i.e. Themes may
> sometimes be an issue, Vista and Win7, but are easily rectified.
>
> The UCAC3 catalog, installed on a system not downloaded, turns all the
> star names when displayed.
>
> Maybe Bill can simply fix the codes to prevent this.
>
> What I would like when using the UCAC3 is to have all tycho stars to 8
> mag and the UCAC3 from 8 up. Right now I have to have the A2 on the get
> all the brighter than 8 mag stars.
>
> Denis
>
>
> On 24/07/2010 5:55 PM, substellar@... wrote:
>> "Do you use UCAC3?"
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what you are saying here.
>>
>> Is UCAC3 display done somehow different from normal tdf display in the latest upgrade?
>> I didn't test ucac3 download when I tested the latest upgrade t'other day.
>>
>> For a very long time now Guide has intelligently placed labels. In very busy
>> circumstanaces a label or two can get missed out, but usually there's room to arrange
>> them around things, and if the labels were bing overwritten then he'd see the ucac3
>> labels instead, but I must admit to being confused now, because one second it's the
>> namelist that can't be read, then next second it's the charts.
>>
>> In fact, the intelligent label positioning can be put to good use to give multiple
>> labels at times. At one point is was partway sensible to label stars for some
>> photometric resource wanting peeps so that the actual magnitude was printed next to the
>> star, but it also would be useful to know the star's colour, B-V in that instance. You
>> can do that with a minor bit of fiddling, and you can in fact plot as many labels as
>> you can get away with (it's just that right click will see that object multiple times
>> should it be used).
>>
>> I personally am of the opinion that he's done something sideways with his settings,
>> because no one else seems to have the problem.
>>
>> Incidentally, people who are getting it to work aren't telling Bill what they're OS is.
>> In the end OS might be a red herring, but the update date isn't the only variable in
>> versions of Guide, the OS and service pack being used for that OS (if any) are
>> variables too.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> John
>>
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