Bill,

that's good news. I have seen The Sky and TPoint at a fellow
astronomers observatory and I was very much impressed about the
software. However, it only works with The Sky.
A similar solution for Guide would make Guide even more competitive
for users with robotic telescopes and slight misalignment of the
mount.
I much better like Guide for the intuitive user interface compared to
The Sky.

Looking forward to e new version including a similar software as
TPoint.

Regards, Josch

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
> Hi Josch,
>
> This will be a two-part job.
>
> First part will be to straighten out the "spaghetti code"
currently
> controlling scopes so that I can work on one thing without (usually)
> breaking three others. That will take me a while... once I've done
> that, though, I'll post a "test update" that will not contain
much in
> the way of blatantly-obvious new features; it will be really just a
> _test_ to ensure that the revised system works.
>
> Then I get into the fun part. Patrick Wallace, the author of
TPoint,
> has an excellent page on the subject of the theory underlying
TPoint:
>
> http://www.tpsoft.demon.co.uk/pointing.htm
>
> As it turns out, TPoint and MEC are just about mathematically
> equivalent (not surprising; we looked at the same piece of physics
> and derived the same mathematics). However, Wallace's discussion
> of it made me realize that I had made the entire process more
> awkward than it really had to be, and has given me some good
> ideas for making the whole process much simpler. I'm really looking
> forward to re-tackling this problem, now that I have a much better
> grasp of what's _really_ going on here.
>
> -- Bill