[APBeta] External catalogs and FoV

[Paul Rodman]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:53 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

> Ahh… I was looking for it in the Catalog list,

...which I guess is the logical place to look for it. Mebbe I'll see if those catalogues can be shoe-horned in there.

> but it appears in the Display Options list.
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> The star in question, since I’m sure you’re all wondering, is USNOB1 1297-0279611. ;)

Thanks for clearing that up :^)

Paul R.

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> Cheers,
> -- Jeff.
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> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Paul Rodman
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:08 PM
> To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] External catalogs and FoV
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> On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
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> How does one use the External Catalogs feature of the FoV tab? 
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> Paul R.

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