[APBeta] External catalogs and FoV

[Paul Rodman]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

> How does one use the External Catalogs feature of the FoV tab? 
>  
> I clicked on FoV Preferences and enabled USNO B1.0 (with the on-line radio button selected), but I can’t figure out how to get AP to tell me the ID of a star which shows up in a background image in the FoV tab.  (Or, for that matter, how to get AP to draw the USNO B1.0 stars into the FoV, although I don’t really need that part.)

Once you've enabled at least one external catalogue, a new section appears in the FoV Options with those external catalogues listed. Selecting the relevant checkboxes should make the stars appear.

Paul R.


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