Hi Joe,
The only documentation of display of multiple chips is in the 'ccds.nam'
file itself, starting around line 200 ("certain SBIG cameras include guider
chip specifications..."). As you'll see, it's not exactly easy to do, but
it's not rocket surgery.
I gather you have a "standard" STL11000M with a built-in guiding chip,
but that in addition to this, you have a second guiding chip? Is the extra
chip the same size as either the main or guiding chip? (It would simplify
matters if it is, but wouldn't be a big deal if you have three chips of
different sizes.)
As long as your extra chip has axes aligned with the main and built-in
guiding cameras, this should be pretty straightforward. (I don't have
a provision for situations where one chip is tilted at an angle relative
to another.) We can deal with a 90 degree rotation, though; it'll just
mean that instead of having, say, a 640x480 third chip, it'll be 480x640.
Give me some specifics as to the size, positioning, and orientation of
this third chip, and we can probably get it to show up in Guide.
At present, the only instance in 'ccds.nam' of a chip with two guiders
is the MegaTek camera. The idea here was to have two guiders to allow field
rotation to be measured and compensated for.
-- Bill
On 01/27/2016 03:27 PM, 'Joe Mize' jmize@... [guide-user] wrote:
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> In Guide9’s “guide.dat” file the Imaging and ‘onboard’ Guiding chips are specified. How
> can an “additional” Guide chip and Range Rings be added “without removing” the original
> Guide chip and its Range Rings? Also, how can the new chip be displayed at different
> orientations than the onboard Guide chip? I’ve tried several ways to no effect. I’m
> poking in the dark because nothing is found in Guide8’s Manual.
> GUIDER_CHIP=0,.6231,.1313,.1477,640,480 (my STL11000M)
> Has anyone devised a way of displaying ”two” Guide chips and Range Rings in Guide9?
> Thkx...joe :)
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