[vsnet-chat 1295] Re: MISAO Project new home page

["Fraser Farrell" <fraserf@dove.net.au>]

G'day Seiichi,


About your plan to produce a MISAO CD-ROM with various 
catalogues on it, and the problem of catalogue copyrights...

Would it be possible to make MISAO software work with a Guide 6 CD-ROM?


This may have some advantages, eg:

- many of us already own a copy of Guide 6

- Guide contains numerous built-in catalogues, and can also work with 
  Digital Sky Survey, A1.0/SA1.0, ACT, etc.  It contains many catalogues 
  of interest to variable star observers including an updated GCVS4.  
  See the Project Pluto website (www.projectpluto.com) for more 
  information

- it is fairly easy to add user-defined catalogues to Guide (eg: lists 
  of SNe, suspected new variables, Takamizawa's discoveries) and you 
  can add personal notes for most objects

- Guide supports several languages (including Japanese)

- Guide's creator is happy to assist people who write their own 
  special software to use the Guide CD-ROM data

I know of two programs that use the data from a Guide CD-ROM.  "CCD 
Astronomy" (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/johnerogers/) does astrometry 
and other functions.  The second program (which I haven't seen) uses 
Guide to provide an Asteroid Database and Finder.  I suspect that these 
two are not the only programs.

I can imagine that when "Guide 7" is released it will be on two CD-ROMs.  
One with the Guide 7 program; the other containing all the free add-ons 
and useful things created by Guide users!




cheers,
Fraser Farrell

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