Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide

afm038 Oct 23 12:09 AM

Owen,

I had done the update before trying to get UCAC4 running, in Help - About Guide - Guide reports it's using the 25th May 2012 version software. As part of this update the ucac4.tdf file was installed and ucac4 appears in the toggle user datasets so I'm sure the software is running with the latest update.

I've double checked all the things that need to be done as per these threads but still no ucac4 stars ?

Thanks, Andy


--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Owen Brazell" <owen@...> wrote:
>
> I would also make sure you have the latest update of Guide 9 dated May. I
> had a similar issue until I updated.
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>
> Owen
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> From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of pastorgalactico
> Sent: 22 October 2012 11:30 PM
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide
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> Hello;
>
> Already you work or not?
> And of course in your case it would asymptomatic;
> UCAC4_PATH=d:\guide9\ucac4
>
> greetings;
>
> J.Tapioles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: afm038
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:22 AM
> Subject: [guide-user] Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide
>
> 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 <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.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 <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 10:19 PM
> > Subject: [guide-user] Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide
> >
> >
> >
> > Exactly what I've done and described in my earlier post - but no ucac4
> stars are shown.
> >
> > Thanks, Andy
> >
> > --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.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 <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.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 <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.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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