Thanks Denis, it's somewhat like turning the USNO-B1 on & off. I'm set now.

Pete

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Denis <boucherd@...> wrote:
>
> A3 are displayed based on size of field, ie 0 to 1.5 degree or what ever
> you desire. Be careful not to put the field to big as it will slow your
> system drastically. Simply right click on a A3 star and select display.
> Change the field size for display as required.
>
> Denis
>
> On 04/10/2010 8:47 AM, barringtonri wrote:
> > UCAC-3 seems to be the optimum catalog for astronomical plate solves, and since I'm working as deep as 20th magnitude it's helpful that UCAC-3 goes a bit deeper than Guide 8's standard display.
> >
> > Thank you Doc Clay for explaining the setup, which I've implemented.
> >
> > Two observations on strange things that are now happening:
> >
> > First, when zoomed to level 8 or 9, even when I reduce the limiting magnitude to 12 I'm still getting all of the UCAC-3 stars showing up as pinpoints. They're not turning off.
> >
> > Second, some of my friends are trying to figure out whether they visually observed 103P/Hartley on Saturday night and they asked me for the SAO ID of an 8.22 mag star in the image. The star display still allows me to turn on the SAO numbers on, but they don't display any longer. Right clicking only provides the UCAC-3 info.
> >
> > I can live with these small aberrations but thought that they were worth mentioning as maybe I'm doing something wrong.
> >
> > Clear skies,
> >
> > Pete Peterson
> > Wishing Star Observatory MPC I15
> >
> > --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Lawrence Harris<lawrence@> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> If you have the UCAC-3 catalog installed on your C drive:
> >>> click ALT J
> >>> and add:
> >>> UCAC3_PATH=c:\ucac3
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> if on another drive, substitute the correct drive letter for the lower case "c"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Dr. Clay
> >>
> >> Hi Dr Clay
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Lawrence
> >>
> >
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