Bill;

To hop on the bandwagon what about interfacing Giude with the new
Losmandy Gemini mounts? I believe the Gemini software uses the LX-200
protocols. Combining Guides depth of detail with Gemini's pointing accuracy
would be a great boon...joe :)

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Joe Mize :)
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----- Original Message -----
From: <hambsch@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:30 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Re: Mechanical error correction for scopes


> 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
>
>
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