Hello Bill, Josch, Lawrence, and others
I also would like to be able to set up a mosaic of CCD frames and
have Guide and telescope goto's take care of the hassle of repeatedly
getting the frames lined up correctly. The way I think this should
work is
1) set up a CCD frame as you normally would
2) define mosaicking properties (x by y frames with z pixles overlap)
3) define the order of the individual frames (a few predefined
schemes would be fine)
4) Guide would now produce a list of frame center's coordinates
(absolute or relative?) which would be the the basis of a workflow
5) a next-button would allow the user to point the telescope point at
each frame in succession (and return to the first for a new round of
integrations) according to the data in the workflow
The actual imaging would the be a simple act of making the telescope
go to the first frame, integrate, press "next", integrate,
press "next" etc.
Better still if the workflow could be saved for reuse.
Just a thought
Jari
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