Re: [guide-user] Two scope-related questions/answers

Mel Bartels Nov 14, 2002

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There you have the possibility to enter two numbers for the movement
of the object in RA and Decl. and the mount will follow it by changing
the frequences of the motors. But the units are rather unconvenient:
Minutes of time per day for RA and minutes of arc per day in Decl.
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My program, scope.exe, also allows input of drift values in hh:mm:ss per
hour and dd:mm:ss per hour for equatorial, and altitude/azimuth in decimal
degrees per minute. You may not like those values!

The drift functionality is very important - an amateur using my program was
able to capture a movie of 2002NY40 as a perfect circle, unguided, as the
stars drifted by. The only movie I've seen so far of that asteroid showing
the asteroid as stationary in the center of the FOV.

Mel Bartels