cust25f45 Oct 8 4:13 PM
--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> At present, the situation is as Ben has described it: the
> mechanical error correction (MEC) system in Guide doesn't work
> with the Bartels system, or indeed with anything except
> Tangent Instruments-based encoder systems. (And even with
> these, it's not at all pleasant to attempt to use it.)
>
> There is indeed some hope for the future here. A while
> back, I realized that the way I'd implemented MEC was
> unnecessarily complicated; it can actually be done in a
> manner that ought to make it much more straightforward
> and powerful. But for the moment, I'm afraid we're stuck
> with Guide just sending RA/dec data to the scope, with no
> corrections applied.
>
> -- Bill