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including everything Guide knows about it.  You can also export that
information to an ASCII file,  for use in a word processor or other
software, or simply print it directly.

   For example,  suppose you centered on the star Acubens.  (You could
do this by clicking on "Go to", then "Star", then "Common Name", and
finally on the name "Acubens"; or just hitting Ctrl-B and entering "alp
cnc" or "Acubens".) Click on Acubens with the RIGHT mouse button. A
dialogue box will pop up in the center of the screen.  It tells you that
this star is called Acubens,  or Sertan;  that it has Bayer letter
Alpha, Flamsteed number 65,  in the constellation Cancer.  It gives some
rise/set times,  its number in several catalogs,  and its magnitude.
("Magnitude", or brightness level,  is discussed on page 75.)

   Finally,  five buttons are shown,  labelled "OK",  "More Info",
"Next",  "Display",  and "Center".  Click on the "OK" button and the
information will vanish.  Click on "Next" and Guide will return
information about the next nearest object. This can be handy in crowded
areas or with overlapping objects, where your first click may not get
the desired object;  in such cases, you can click "Next" until Guide
finds the object you really wanted.

   Clicking on "Display" leads to controls over the display of a given
type of object.  Since you right-clicked on a star,  clicking on "Display"
here would lead to controls over how stars are displayed (their magnitude
limits,  how they are labelled,  and so on).  If you had instead
right-clicked on,  say,  an asteroid,  and then clicked "Display",  you
would get a somewhat different set of controls including options specific
to asteroid display.

   Clicking on "More Info" leads,  logically,  to more information.
The amount and type of information will depend on the object. For
some objects, Guide may be able to find information in a half dozen
catalogs; for obscure objects, perhaps only one.

   On Acubens, "More Info" is about 150 lines of data.  First,  data
from the Hipparcos catalog is provided, giving such details as
position, magnitude, and proper motion.  Many terms are in light blue;
you can click on them to get information about them.  In fact, the
remarks data is an extension of the help system,  so you can get added
information about the remarks in the same way.  Again,  you can save
the data to a file or print it.

   After the raw data from Hipparcos, some information such as
distance and luminosity derived from that data is shown. Then, Guide
gives information from the Tycho,  GSC,  PPM,  SAO,  WDS, HD, and
Yale Bright Star catalogs. This serves several purposes.  Some of the
other catalogs just give data backing up the information from
previous catalogs.  A few provide unique information;  for example,
the WDS (Washington Double Star) catalog tells us that this is a
double star, with magnitudes 4.25 and 11.8. A catalog such as the
GCVS will tell you what type of variable star this is,  how much it

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