Re: [guide-user] Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide

Roger Pickard Oct 23 5:19 AM

And where does one find that update please Owen.

Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Brazell" <owen@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:20 AM
Subject: RE: [guide-user] Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide


>I would also make sure you have the latest update of Guide 9 dated
>May. I
> had a similar issue until I updated.
>
>
>
> Owen
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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