> First, I know it's only been shipping for a week or so, but has anyone
> out there tried "Guide 7" yet?
I can't recommend Guide highly enough. 6.0 was excellent and over the
course of the last year, I've applied the various free upgrades Bill has
produced. I have absolutely no problems with it, other than speed. By
porting Guide to Win32, the speed issues have reportedly been resolved.
It's on my Christmas list!

>
> At the moment I'm waffling between Guide (which seems to be good
> at rendering nebulae and reasonable at Solar system modelling) and
> Starry Night Deluxe (which seems to excel at Solar system modelling
> and photo-realism, while lacking in areas like nebula outlines).
> Also, please let me know if my summaries of these products strengths
> and weaknesses are inaccurate in your opinion (and why).
Guide does quite adequate solar system modelling. Some of the features are
non-intuitive at first, but practice makes perfect....

> Important features for my purposes: A easily-read, uncluttered display
> (with no "gaudy" rendering of star magnitudes); a reasonably deep and
> accurate object database; good rendering of extended object outlines;
> accurate modelling of solar system objects (including Jovian satellite
> and spot events, Lunar occultations, etc.); and control of an LX-200.
> (quite a small order, isn't it?!!!)

Guide's the one for you, on all counts.

Grant Blair
Moorestown, NJ

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