Thank you, sirs. I will look somoe more. I can see UCAC3 stars when I use get 'get from Internet' option for a specific field, but Guide seems to be ignoring the bz2 files I have in C:\UCAC3. PinPoint can find and use them just fine, so the files are definitely there...

Grant

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@...> wrote:
>
> An update on my use of the UCAC-3; it actually IS working just fine; I had gone to a
> star field that was filled with UCAC-2 stars and none that were showing (at level 10)
> were in the defaulted magnitude range. So ours IS working just as it should.
>
> Clay
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Woodchuk" <woodl@...>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 7:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [guide-user] UCAC3
>
>
> > The path has to be typed exactly as it is (caps included). In the User dataset turn
> > on UCAC-3. Right click and in display set field size to a reasonable size so stars
> > will appear when needed. I have mine set at 2°.
> >
> > Larry Wood
> >
> > On 09/11/2011 4:50 PM, grantcblair wrote:
> >> How do I know I'm really accessing UCAC-3 properly from Guide8?
> >>
> >> I did the Alt-J thing and entered:
> >>
> >> UCAC3_PATH=C:\UCAC3
> >>
> >> and my 366 files really are in C:\UCAC3.
> >>
> >> But when I look at individual information for any fainter star (e.g. mag 15), I
> >> see no reference to UCAC. I also don't see any stars fainter than mag 15. Is this
> >> right?
> >>
> >> Help, please!
> >>
> >> Grant
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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