Hi all, I'm trying to use Cartes du Ciel to produce a finder chart of 1 deg. or so for identifying Pluto in an eyepiece field, but I can't get it to consistently display stars below about mag. 13.5.
I downloaded the HST GSC in FITS, ungzipped the hundreds of files into their respective folders and pointed CDC to their parent folder, and set it to be the catalog used for 1 deg fields or smaller. That all seems to have worked since CDC now repeatably shows stars to about mag. 13.5 that it says are from the GSC, but I'd really like to go to mag. 15 and it won't show stars that deep when I search for and view Pluto. Oddly, it worked once a minute ago (got stars below mag. 14) when I had it display Jupiter, but subsequent searches for Jupiter haven't displayed those stars again. I've unchecked the "limit" and "continuous" options in the "Stars 1" dialog and I'm looking at a sub degree field. Is there something I'm missing, or a better way to go about this? Weird that it seems to be intermittent. FWIW, I'd been trying the "online resources" GSC options yesterday for Pluto but hit a similar magnitude limit. Apologies if this newbie question is naive...I searched the documentation and the forum but am still confused. Thanks for any help... Andy Allen
