Hi Bill,
Thanks for the answer. Your comment about what people who speak only
one language are called applies to all English speakers I'm afraid.

Regards, Alan

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Almost all of the information I've been able to Google on
PicGoto
> is in Spanish, which I _barely_ understand. But at the Yahoogroup
> for PicGoto, http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/Picgotogroup/ ,
> the description sounds as if it's a microcontroller-based device
> for handling telescope stepper motors with equatorial mounts. If
> I'm understanding it correctly, it sounds a bit like Mel Bartels'
> AltAz system, with most of the "intelligence" off-loaded from the
> computer to separate circuitry.
>
> The above page mentions modules for control via the LX-200
command
> set, which Guide has implemented since the Dark Ages of circa
1994.
>
> Also mentioned at the above page is the ability to interface
> via ASCOM, which the current update supports.
>
> (Could someone who understands Spanish please check the above
> page and verify that I'm not misleading Alan about all this? I'm
> afraid the old joke -- a person who speaks three languages is
> trilingual; a person who speaks two languages is bilingual; a
> person who speaks one language is an American -- applies all too
> well to me.)
>
> Saludos, -- Bill
>