Lawrence Harris Jul 12, 2003
> From: Bill J Gray <pluto@...>We start with Guide and the telescope synchronised (and I haven't yet
>Subject: Re: mosaicking feature
>
>Hi Josch, Lawrence,
>
> I'm not sure of what you're looking for. It sounds as if at least one
>componen would be a way to redefine the cursor panning hotkeys
>(and corresponding toolbar buttons) so that, instead of meaning
>"move over half a screen", they would mean "move over this many
>degrees in RA, or this many in dec." (Or both at once if you hit
>the diagonal keys.) Is this correct?
>
> The motion amount would normally be almost the height or widthYes. This would be the 10 arc minutes part.
>of the CCD field, minus a bit for overlap.
> This part wouldn't be at all difficult to arrange. Trickiest part wouldAs mentioned, ending where you started does not seem critical to me.
>be to ensure that panning up, left, down, and right returned you to
>your initial point. (This is analogous to walking on the earth a
>kilometer north, then a kilometer east, then south, then west.
>Because the earth isn't flat, you won't return exactly to your
>starting point. Already in Guide, hitting up-arrow/left-arrow/
>down-arrow/right-arrow doesn't return you to where you started.)