You can turn off the Hipparcos catalog (preferences-->catalogs and object
parameters-->catalogs, click the green box in front of "hip").
Hipparcos is something of a "specialty" catalog. All its stars are also
contained in other catalogs- the Hipparcos catalog just gives distance data
(and probably more accurate position data, if you really need sub-arcsecond
precision).
-John
--- Sander Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Sorry for the second question right after the previous one.
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> I just downloaded and installed the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogs. Now when I
> click on a star I no longer get the SOA number, name and other information,
> only the Hip number and Tycho magnitudes. Is this by design or am I doing
> something wrong? Shouldn't catalogs be additive and show all known
> identifications of certain objects? Or does installing the Hip catalog
> override the older one because the Hip is so much more accurate?
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> One of the reasons I care is that I can enter SOA numbers into my Autostar
> goto pad but not Hip ones. So if I have trouble finding an object I use CdC
> to find a nearby star and then use goto to get me there. Now I can't do that
> anymore.
>
> This is with 2.76.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sander
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