<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Jeff Young wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Monaco; 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; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">How does one use the External Catalogs feature of the FoV tab? <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">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.)<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul R.</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>