I take part of that back. I think I'm using USNO A2.0 for PinPoint, not UCAC3.

So decompressing all the .bz2 files should be sufficient, right? All 360 of them...

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "grantcblair" <g.blair@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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
> >
>