Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the reply. I was hoping there would be another way around this,
as other aspects of setting up can take me an hour or so and the weather is
changeable here. However re-doing the alignment is a solution.
Many thanks,
Brian Boggenpoel.
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guide-user@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 23:04:03 +1000
From: Kevin Cooper <
kjcooper@...>
Subject: Re: crossing the meridian
Hi Brian,
From my and a friend of mine's experience, Guide will not point well
after changing from one side of the pier to the other. Adding stars on
the second side results in the pointing not giving sensible pointing at
all. If we wish to change sides, we clear the ALIGN.DAT file and re-do
the alignment on the other side.
Do you have the ALIGNER.EXE program? It will clear the ALIGN.DAT file
for you. It's available from the Project Pluto site.
Kevin Cooper.
Brian wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone advise on a basic telescope control problem I have. Using
> a
> german mount with encoders I set the first two alignment stars on one
> side
> of the meridian. This makes moving the telescope by hand update the
> display on guide correctly on either side of the meridian. If I now
> set an
> alignment star on the other side of the meridian guide updates the
> declination in the wrong direction.
>
> Unfortunately I need rather more than two alignment stars for my
> mounting.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Brian Boggenpoel.
> <