Perhaps also why would you want to given all the listed flaws in the UCAC 3
catalogue?

Owen

-----Original Message-----
From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of P. Clay Sherrod
Sent: 19 September 2010 1:39 AM
To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Guide 9

How would you be able to load Guide 9 WITHOUT the large UCAC-3 file,
assuming that you already had it installed on the C drive of the computer?
Is the UCAC-3 catalog one of the user options upon installing the DVD?

Clay
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Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
Arkansas Sky Observatories
MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
MPC H43 - Conway West
http://www.arksky.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Guide 9


> Hi Clay,
>
>> Using a new installation DVD or memory stick: I am assuming that all
personal settings
>> that we are currently using would be null and void and that we would have
to go back
>> and
>> reset everything to the parameters currently being used?
>
> You could load a mark file from Guide 8. At present, the way to do
that
> would be to save a mark file, maybe called 'my personal settings',
whilst
> in Guide 8. Then install Guide 9, copy that mark file over to the Guide
9
> folder, and run Guide 9 and click on File... Load a Mark. You'd then be
able
> to click on 'my personal settings', and Guide 9 would load 'em up.
>
> I admit, though, that this isn't in any way automated, and it would
be
> nice if Guide 9 had an "import my Guide 8 settings" option. That's an
> interesting challenge... lemme think about that. The "simple" method
would
> be for Guide 9 to rummage around the hard drive looking for 'guide8.exe';
> when it finds it, it would then look for a 'startup.mar' in the same
folder,
> and grab settings from that. But there may be a better way.
>
>> Will you actually have the UCAC-3 catalog ON the DVD that downloads?
>
> Yes. I was able to compress UCAC-3 from its "original" 8 GBytes down
to
> about .9 GBytes (with the price of losing certain data: less significant
> digits that are basically random noise, and some of the data flags).
>
> If you do happen to have the full 8 GByte data on your hard drive,
> Guide 9 will be able to use that instead (much as Guide 8 can). It may be
> a bit slower at times, but it'll let you get all the "minor" information
> that I suspect 99.9% of users can do without.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
>
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