A Night in Lynx

Mark Wagner (resource@No-Spam-intl.com)
Wed, 12 Jan 1999 12:53:33 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 12 Jan 1999, Jamie Dillon wrote:

> By contrast, I was looking at Lynx that night too, gazing up at that very
> area of space and wondering how one would spot locations with those dim
> stars.

One way is the GoTo button....

> Where'd you get the pics? From the NGC project?

No, not from there. I didn't want to start dialing up and downloading
images from the DSS, and it seemed to me that the current top-end version
of _The_Sky_ includes about 70,000 DSS images already. So, I called up
one image with "FIND" in the program, and noted that a dir was displayed
showing "Windows/Temp"....

I went to that dir and found a temp Sky file. I copied and renamed it,
and viola, I had a DSS thumbnail right on my desktop system. Pretty cool,
eh?

Mark Wagner
mgw@No-Spam-intl.com


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