Hi all,

I had the chance to test this yesterday, and it worked like a charm!
No need to use ASCOM to drive my SynScanAZ, as the NexStar option
worked both ways; slew Guide as well as telescope).

Arild :)

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:14 AM, P. Clay Sherrod <drclay@...> wrote:
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> Excellent and thanks for this effort; I look forward to testing this!
>
> Clay
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> Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
> Arkansas Sky Observatories
> MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
> MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
> MPC H43 - Conway West
> http://www.arksky.org/
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:56 PM
> Subject: [guide-user] Celestron 'Slew Guide' bug fixed (I think!)
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I took another try at the above-mentioned bug, and found something that
> > was definitely a bug. (A rather embarrassing bug, actually: I was
> > checking the error code from a function that was supposed to send a string
> > of text through the COM port, but mis-interpreted the return value. In
> > other words, when things worked fine, it decided an error had occurred;
> > probably, if an error _did_ occur, it would report success.)
> >
> > Anyway. The fixed version is now at
> >
> > http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
> >
> > Note that this is an "in-testing" version. As always, please let me
> > know what you find... specifically about the Celestron bug, but also about
> > any other issues you see.
> >
> > I mentioned two other improvements on the 'new.htm' page: better
> > handling of constellations and (very slightly) improved ephemerides for
> > the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. There are actually other improvements,
> > but I'll get around to documenting them later; it'll involve digging
> > through various notes and e-mails to remind myself of what I've been
> > doing, and I really wanted to get the Celestron fix out into the world.
> >
> > Clay, I also made some changes that _might_ address the NexRemote
> > problem. I'm not so confident on that score, though... that one is
> > still quite weird.
> >
> > -- Bill
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