Thanks as always Bill....I shall do this, but remember that the scope WILL work in terms
of Slew Telescope with the real hand controller; it does NOT work when attempting to do
the same thing via NexRemote where the virtual port is required.

I will send what I get and much appreciated.

Dr. Clay
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Arkansas Sky Observatories
MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
MPC H43 - Conway West
http://www.arksky.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Re: Celestron (and Celestron-compatible) scope control


> Hi Ben, all,
>
> According to Celestron's documents on how to communicate with their scopes,
> nothing has changed. Obviously, though, something _has_ changed. (Celestron
> has done a poor job of documenting these things in the past, so I'm not
> totally surprised. For a long time, most of what I knew about Celestron
> control came from people other than Celestron.)
>
> So. A request to anyone running into problems with NexStar scopes: run
> Guide, and hit Alt-J, and enter
>
> DEBUG_FILENAME=debug.txt
>
> Then try to control the scope.
>
> When you're done, there should be a file 'debug.txt' in your Guide folder.
> It will contain details of what was sent to the scope and what came back. I'll
> look at that and, I hope, be able to see what Celestron has done to make
> life difficult this time. (Past changes haven't been anything big -- things
> like "send E rather than E plus carriage return", "values are separated by
> a comma instead of a space", etc. Such changes are annoying and seem totally
> pointless. But on the bright side, they usually aren't hard to work around.
> Let's hope that's the case this time, too!)
>
> -- Bill
>
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