Bill,

I haven't timed occultations for some time, but if I still did I
would certainly use Lunar Occultation Workbench [LOW]. This program
is free, and is from the Dutch Occultation Association. I don't know
if it is of interest in the present discussion, and everyone may
already know about it anyway. http://low4.doa-site.nl/index.html

Larry

At 08:00 AM 5/11/2011, you wrote

>--- In
><mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.com>guide-user@yahoogroups.com,
>Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> > Mark (and others interested in this feature): what sort of
> > link(s) were you thinking of? Something along the lines of "select
> > an object in DSP and get information from Guide about it", or
> > "just have Guide center on that object", or "make a list of
> > objects in DSP and show them in Guide", or "click on an object
> > in Guide and have DSP show info about it", or... ?
> >
> > -- Bill
> >
>Well, I can describe a couple of cases, perhaps that will make it
>clearer. But I wonder if some sort of ASCOM interface to Guide might
>be a general answer to this and other feature requests.
>
>-- For some reason, on a nice clear night, I have nothing to look at
>and check a planner and see that there are 3 asteroid occulations
>coming up in a few days. I wonder if I can see the target star now,
>and enjoy the quandary of 'which star is which?" early. So the
>planner holds a location, time and some database reference while
>Guide knows what can be seen now. Thru some click-magic, etc, I
>transfer the info from a planner to Guide and take a look at the
>current star picture, with support from Guide identifying the
>background. Similarly there is a comet expected to achieve peak
>brightness next month, which I have noted in a planner, what's it
>look like now?
>
>-- Essentially there is an event list that I might want to look at
>early and certainly want to look at before it expires. I don't
>expect a planner to carry access to dozens of stellar databases, I'd
>like it to be somewhat of a notepad of stuff to do. I don't expect
>Guide to track expirations of events (Venus transit, conjunctions).
>While I can write software, I think it's smarter for me to create
>the kind of planner I'd use and leave Guide to the expert. Having
>some way, thru a script file, API or some data file to do so would
>be nice. After reading some of the replys here and thinking about
>tools such as AutoIt, this may already be possible with some effort
>

Laren Dart
http://ldart.got.net


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