Bill,

Spanish is my mother tongue and I can tell you that your description is
almost dead on spot. The device is capable of running steppers getting as
input LX200 commands (or ASCOM) from a PC (usually from a planetarium
program). But aparently it can only work on equatorial mounts not Alt-AZ
systems.
Regards,

Juan Carlos Rosso
Leiderdorp, Netherlands

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] PicGoto


> 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
>
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