<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 1, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Dieter Welnowski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Monaco; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">I have two questions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; ">1. What is the meaning of the red parenthetic and crossed out black F in the observations tab when I create a new observation?</span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>It means that the object was "not found", i.e. none of the resource combinations for that observation has the Found checkbox checked.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Monaco; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; ">2. I would like to insert remarks on constellations in the Observations tab. One can produce a catalog of his own to this, only with the names of the constellations and suitable coordinates (for example respectively the middle of a constellation)?</span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Interesting problem. I could create a catalogue containing 88 objects, with the ID = Constellation abbreviation, and the RA/Dec pointing at the centre of that constellation, etc.<div><br></div><div>Or you could create such an object yourself:</div><div><br></div><div>a. Object->Show Constellation in Field of View...</div><div>b. Select the constellation.</div><div>c. Right-click the centre of the FoV chart and select "Create new object centred at cursor position"</div><div>d. Make the ID = Tau (say), Name = Taurus, and you could even transfer the FoV size to the Size parameter.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul R.</div><div><br></div></body></html>