[guide-user] Software overriding my Horizon.DAT file

[Bill Gray]

Hi Pete,

    Quick fix : go into Settings... Location.  The top
line will read 'Mars'.  Change that to 'Earth'.  You may
also need to reset your lat/lon.

    The mention of 'horizo04.dat' was the key clue.  If you
are not on Earth,  you should have an unEarthly horizon
(no trees,  streetlights,  etc.)  Such files are only loaded
up when needed,  which is why they come back to life when
you restart Guide.

    Not sure how you got there by dropping something on the
keyboard.  I gather cats are noted for walking on keyboards
and resetting things in bizarre ways.

-- Bill

On 3/8/21 3:20 PM, pecorp wrote:
> Got clumsy last night in the cold and dark and dropped something on the top of the keyboard around the function keys area.  Guide 9 was running and my horizon disappeared to be replaced with magnetic bearings around the perimeter of the sky FOV.  Discovered that somehow a file named horiz04.dat has popped up in the guide directory and is now overriding the normal horizon.dat file.  Lots of trees and obstructions and that horizon is important.
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> Deleting the new horiz04.dat file doesn’t fix things as when I restart Guide the NSEW bearing appears again, and it’s reappeared in the program file as well.  Turning off Guide, deleting the horiz04.dat file and then rebooting the computer didn’t solve the problem either.  This is really queer.  Anyone got an idea as to what is causing this and as to how to correct it so that I may see my obstructions again?
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> Pete Peterson
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