Hi,
just wanted to tell you what I am doing:

(1) First, I go to horizon menu and set the map to the zenith position.
(2) Second, I go to the display menu and to the "ticks, grids, etc" submenu.
(3) I then first tick "zentral crosshair" (to have th exact zenith point), follwed by a click on "add aperture cercle"; I set the apperture cercle to - for instance - 50° from the zenith point (dont forget to change " to °). But you can chose any distance from the zenith.
(4) And now comes the important point: there is a very nice and simple programm, with which you can retrieve objects to be seen by distance from the zenith. It is called NGC 2000 observer - but a lot of other catalogues are integrated) and is written by Marco Menichelli, an Italian, and can be found here: http://www.marcomenichelli.it/
(Go the software menu, -> Mio software, -> NGC 2000 Obs., download and enjoy ... also a foreign language ;-). You can limit the lists generated by magnitude and other criteria, export the lists generated to excel, and retrieve etc.) As indicated, the program is in Italian, but I believe the basic information and numbers given with that programm are international. I like the program a lot in any case, because of it's simplicity (compared to Astroplanner for instance).

don't forget to make correspond the apperture cercle in Guide8 and the distance from zenith in NGC 2000.

Clear Skies

Rudi

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Laren Dart <sandman@...> wrote:
>
> 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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