Re: [guide-user] Re: Updates/software/mount correction

Bill Dean Feb 2, 2002

Could you point me to some info on Prism? Seems like all the links I'd found
were broken.

I'm hoping to play around with MEC for my Tangent DSCs soon. As far as I
know it's Tangent-only for now.

Thanks!
Bill Dean

----- Original Message -----
From: "gcne67" <tstk1@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 2:13 AM
Subject: [guide-user] Re: Updates/software/mount correction


> --- In guide-user@y..., Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
>
> >
> > TELESCOPE POINTING:
> >
> > One minor problem with the MEC (Mechanical Error Correction) system
> > in Guide: it only applies to encoder-based systems, not to "GoTo"
> > scopes. At the time I added this system, my only real thought was
> > that I needed something to allow alignment and control of encoder
> > systems; I figured there wasn't much point in attempting to adjust
> > the LX-200's alignment. This turned out to be doubly unfortunate.
> >
>
> If I understand this correctly, Guide 8 doesn't allow MEC for LX200
systems. Are there plans to correct this any time soon?
>
> I was looking at Prism, which handles this for LX200, etc. but they just
doubled the price for the new release to US$150 even though it's got all the
image processing features (which I don't need).
>
> Thanks.
>
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