Bill,

It may be that the reason that only Mel Bartels uses the AltAz system is
because it doesn't work properly for much of anything else. I would like to
use it if it would work (the last version that seems to work properly is the
10/27/97 Guide 6 version). I have sent you numerous emails explaining the
problem but it has yet to be fixed.

Al Peters


"Bill J. Gray" wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Looks as if I've got some fixup work to do. I've already done the
> easy task, of changing "30 December" to "30 November". Now for the
> hard parts:
>
>
> Andre, regarding scope communication over a network, or by
> writing data to a file: I've done things of this ilk over the years,
> but there has been very little interest in them. The main exception
> is the AltAz system, for users of Mel Bartels' scope control system.
> In that case, Guide writes assorted data (such as RA and dec) to
> a file, SLEW.DAT, and a separate, user-supplied program, parses
> that file to get RA/dec data. (You get a lot of other details, such
> as alt/az data and field rotation data. But as far as I know, nobody
> has made use of anything but the RA/dec data.)
>
> -- Bill
>
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