You need to update the comets; the current comets have changed many times since
May 2012; if you will write to me personally I will send you a copy of the
comets.dat file that you can simply copy and paste into your Guide folder for
the most current listings.

Dr. Clay
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Arkansas Sky Observatories
MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
MPC H43 - Conway West
http://www.arksky.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony J. Kroes" <akroes@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 12:38 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Comet Updating Troubles


> Anyone having trouble updating comets recently in v9? I am using Windows 7
> with SP1 and Guide version 25 May 2012.
>
>
>
> I am trying to get C/2012 S1 ISON to display but can't. Comets are 'on' in
> the display data menu, and 'MPCORB' is checked in the 'Extras'. However it
> doesn't seem to be on the comet list when I search for it so my comet data
> is probably out of date (Soft02cm.txt dated 5/10/12). But I can't figure
> out how to update my comets ( I know I have dome this before..) I am
> experiencing crashes when I try to download anything from the 'Extras'
> Comet/Asteroid menu. I have the newest version of MPCORB manually placed in
> the Guide9 folder, but when using the MPC hyperlinks, Guide crashes with the
> usual "Guide8 MFC Application has stopped working" error that then closes
> Guide. The same thing happens when I use the 'Add Comet/Asteroid' link to
> point to a local file (Soft06Cmt.txt from MPC in this case, which does have
> C/2012 S1 ISON listed in it).
>
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Bill J Gray
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:50 PM
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Getting UCAC4 to show up in Guide
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Wow... I didn't realize that format confusion was already proliferating.
> I'll add in
> some sort of "files found, but not what was expected" error message.
>
> -- Bill
>
> afm038 wrote:
>> Sorted at last !
>>
>> With a bit of help from Owen I realised that the file sizes of the Z001 to
> Z900 files
>> that I downloaded from the Harvard server were actually smaller than those
> on the DVD...
>
>
>
>
>
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