Amen to that.
I have had the opportunity to choose virtually every sky program available and in fact
there are a couple of telescopes that I have simply refused to use because their mounts
were specific to one program that I find very user-unfriendly and frankly with less
supportive features for basic telescope operation and support.

The two reasons I have stuck with Guide (...other than blushing Bill.....) are:

1) ease of use and simplicity of telescope control and target acquisition;
2) it is by far the best program out there for constant (daily) updates of NEOs and Comets
without much hassle whatsoever.

In addition, I am one of the limited disciples of CHARON, Guide's very fine astrometric
measurement program. Again, simple and right to the point and very user friendly.

....and then there are all the great folks on the Guide Yahoo discussion group.

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

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From: "Andrea Pelloni" <mc3657@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Why do I love Guide?


> Bill J. Gray, obviously! ;-)
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> Andrea
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> At 00:05 14/02/2011, navillus95472 wrote:
>>I've been a Guide user since version 3. It's on every computer I own
>>(including my Mac using an XP emulation). At the public observatory where
>>I'm a docent we use TheSky for controlling the CCD imaging telescope which
>>is on a Paramount, so I'm reasonably proficient with that.
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>>The observatory is now well into a project of building a 1 meter telescope
>>which will use Mel Bartel's ALTAZ tracking system. I suggested we use
>>Guide for pointing the telescope. The response was, "People already know
>>how to use TheSky. Why should they learn a new program? What's so great
>>about Guide?" ... a fair question, and to be fair, the response also
>>included, "We could use both. Just pick your preferred software when
>>starting up."
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>>Now I must admit, I dislike TheSky. It seems overly complex and clumsy.
>>It often doesn't have the information I want (or I just can't find it.) I
>>don't like how it looks, and it very expensive.
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>>I realize that these objections are (except for expense) either purely
>>subjective or could just be the result of my relative unfamiliarity with
>>TheSky compared to Guide. I've been using Guide so long every that every
>>other planetarium program just looks wrong.
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>>Please help me answer their question, "What's so great about Guide?"
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