Thanks Pat!

Sounds promising so I suppose I'll give it a whirl some Moon-filled night. I
think my homemade encoder hardware is going to be the limiting factor but
anything that helps me to get more obs in nights at home is a good thing.

Regards,
Bill Dean

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick J. Madden" <RevPJMadden@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Guide 8 draws nigh


> Hi Bill,
> No, I haven't tried Bill's system. To tell the truth, I'm still on
the
> "learning curve" of the other software. But I might try out Bill's system
> in the future. Once I did a software "combination." I forget the
asteroid,
> but there was one that was whizzing by fairly fast and close last year,
and
> they put up the coordinates for us Guide users. So I got the telescope up
> and running using "brand x," and syncrhonized on a star. Then I shut
that
> program down, and told Guide to "slew program" to where the scope was. It
> worked! Then I told Guide to slew the scope to where the asteroid was,
and
> it did! (All this with an AP1200 mount, which has codes similar to
> Meade, I believe.)
> Pat
>
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