Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide

afm038 Oct 22 3:22 PM

There are definitely no spaces in the path. It is written in guide.dat exactly as below (note that my guide9 folder is in the root directory of the d drive)

UCAC4_PATH=d:\guide9\ucac4

Thanks, Andy


--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "pastorgalactico" <pastorgalactico@...> wrote:
>
> Hello;
> That's what happened to me until I discovered that everything devia it should not have spaces in it;
>
> Well no spaces;
> UCAC4_PATH=c:\guide9\ucac4
>
> Mal with spaces;
> UCAC4_PATH = c: \ guide9 \ ucac4
>
> Acerme if I had the same problem.
>
> greetings;
>
> J.Tapioles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: afm038
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 10:19 PM
> Subject: [guide-user] Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide
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> Exactly what I've done and described in my earlier post - but no ucac4 stars are shown.
>
> Thanks, Andy
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "pastorgalactico" <pastorgalactico@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello;
> >
> > Be in the folder you just have to put ucac4 all files from z001 to z900 and nothing more.
> > Then you have to put in guide.dat end this;
> >
> > UCAC4_PATH=c:\guide9\ucac4
> >
> > Hope this helps
> > No need to take off your ucac3 if you want.
> > greetings;
> >
> > J.Tapioles
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: afm038
> > To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 8:48 PM
> > Subject: [guide-user] Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok so I'm struggling here, I've followed all the instructions and cannot see any UCAC4 data.
> >
> > I've put the ucac4.tdf file in the Guide 9 directory, I've got all 900 UCAC4 Z***.bin files in the UCAC4 directory, I've got all the u4i files in a sub directory from UCAC4 and I've put the correct UCAC4 directory path in the guide.dat file.
> > I've turned off UCAC3 so these now do not show and complicate things, I've turned on UCAC4 in the Extras - Toggle user datasets (tried on, fixed and auto) but still I do not see any UCAC4 data displayed ?
> >
> > Have I missed something ? Any help would be gratefully received.
> >
> > Thanks, Andy
> >
> > --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > pastorgalactico wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you remove the folder ucac3 guide9.0 works only with ucac4 and
> > > > is not necessary to have the folder inside guide ucac3 9.0
> > > > At least so far has not noticed anything unusual in the operation
> > > > guide 9.0 without being ucac3 folder and running the ucac4.
> > >
> > > Exactly. This is almost what would happen if, in Extras... Install
> > > To Hard Drive, you turned off (or never bothered to turn on) the "UCAC-3"
> > > option at the bottom of the list of things to be installed. Guide tends
> > > to assume that some files may not be available to it; in particular, if
> > > you've done a "minimum install", only about 12 MBytes are copied to the
> > > hard drive.
> > >
> > > But I'd recommend leaving the UCAC-3 files in place. You will probably
> > > find that if you try to display UCAC-4 at a wide field of view (several
> > > degrees), it will be somewhat slow. Guide's version of UCAC-3 is compressed,
> > > and extra files are provided for use at wider fields of view.
> > >
> > > > Another thing I'm thinking if you could get in the USNO A2 guide 9.0
> > > > full guide 9.0. and have the option of disabling it whenever desired.
> > >
> > > One _can_ display A2.0 (or B1.0) in Guides 7, 8 and 9 :
> > >
> > > http://www.projectpluto.com/update7.htm#ax0_direct
> > >
> > > But it's well to use this only when looking for very faint stars.
> > > A2.0 and B1.0 go much fainter than UCAC, but the quality of the data is
> > > much poorer.
> > >
> > > -- Bill
> > >
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