Aha. Must have missed a step somewhere, then. I'll try that, thanks!

PinPoint (or at least the limited version inside MaximDL) works just fine with them left as bz2 files, so it never occurred to me to do anything else with them.

I'll give decompression a try once I go out to my obervatory later this afternoon.

Thanks, Bill!

Grant

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Grant,
>
> grantcblair wrote:
> > Thank you, sirs. I will look some 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.
>
> ??? The files ought not to have the extension '.bz2'; if they do,
> they are compressed with bzip2, and it's very surprising indeed that
> PinPoint can access them.
>
> The files should have names from 'z001' to 'z360', with no extension.
>
> -- Bill
>