Oh, I can get REALLY silly :-) I can see the sense of it, just hadn't realised I had to do it. The Gliese question is not especially concerned with the catalogue, I simply need a way to incorporate it into the catalogue options that I have available.
If there's anyone else out there who can help, you'll have the thanks of an idiot. By the way, CdC is quite a piece of software. I do a fair amount of astronomy and it's one of the best I've seen for identifying where objects are located. Cheers, Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sander Pool Sent: 15 December 2006 14:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [skychart-discussion] Henry Draper Catalogue Mike, no worries, that doesn't sound stupid. Silly perhaps :) The reason you have to select the catalog before CdC 'knows' to search it is that some catalogs are huge and always searching every catalog would impede performance. In addition you don't want to add a catalog each time you want to use it and remove it when you're done. I'm sure it makes sense to you now with the benefit of hindsight :) I have no experience with the Gliese catalog, sorry. Sander
