Thanks again, John. I'd noticed the blinking cursor disappeared when I moved the pointer on to the main screen, so what you say makes sense.
I'll see if the Gliese Catalogue behaves properly and hope it's the last inane question I have. I have everything operating the way you have said, so all should be well. Cheers, Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mahony Sent: 19 December 2006 03:12 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [skychart-discussion] Henry Draper Catalogue --- Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to do a "Find" using the Gliese numbers and, if so, is > there a set of instructions in the Help file? It doesn't seem to be > possible using the Quick Search box. When I press <Enter>, I simply lose > the part of the tool bar containing this box - no indicator appears on > the main screen to show a location. That's the one "feature" that should probably be better explained. About half of all "first message from new user" messages start with "where did my toolbars go?" For the first few years I was using CdC I thought the search box was buggy. It turns out the enter key is also a keyboard shortcut for getting rid of the toolbars for a wider FOV (see <http://stargazing.net/astropc/doc/edoc1.html#racourcis> for a list of hotkeys) If you enter something in the searchbox and press enter while the text cursor is still blinking in the box, it will search normally. But if you move the mouse cursor into the main display, the text cursor disappears, and then pressing enter makes the toolbars disappear. Press it again to get them back. I don't have Gleise installed, but I just tried searching in another catalog from the "additional catlogs" page that I have, the Sharpless catalog of HII regions. When displayed onscreen these have a designation starting with ShHII, so I found an example, ShHII 245, and entered that. It didn't work, but entering just 245 did. That raises the question of how it knows what actalog to search if you have more than one enabled. I also have the RNGC catalog, so I turned that on. It uses numbers up to around 7000, while the ShHII stops at 313. Searching on numbers up to 313 found an ShHII object, while using higher numbers found an RNGC object. Note that the catalog must be enabled. There seems to be two options here. Under preferences>catalog and object parameters>magnitude(or size) tab, you must enter a 1 in the left column for the catalog to be available for searching. If you actually want the catalog displayed, then also check the "display this catalog" checkbox. -John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links
