Re: [guide-user] Good news, bad news

R Shapp Apr 30, 2004

Hi Bill and others:

Using the 29 April update, Extras > Add MPC Comets/Asteroids seems to be
working fine. Bradfield is showing Mag 7.3 for today.

In Settings > Scope Control, I am assuming the encoder windows are for RA and
Dec respectively from left to right. Why not make the box a little bigger and
actually label the windows? Sure most of us will make the correct assumption,
but you know that scope control is one of the trickier feats we do with these
programs. When things go wrong, the labels will eliminate one source of
possible error that a user would otherwise have to vary. He will still need
to use the correct values, but at least he wouldn't have to worry about having
entered the RA and Dec values in the wrong windows.

I'm not near the telescope, so I can't yet test this update with our MG-5
interface, but I will do so as soon as possible. I'll report back when we do
the test.

Thanks for addressing the radians/degrees problem.

Ray Shapp