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142		Steve Foster Steve@...	Apr 2, 2001 8:57 am
	I was looking to use the NOVAS COM objects for a personal planetarium program but, unlike the USNO C package, the COM objects don't recognise the Sun and Moon...
143		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 3, 2001 3:41 pm
	Steve -- NOVAS-COM does support Sun and Moon, but Kepler (which is the ephemeris generator for NOVAS-COM) doesn't. Of course, Sun is just Earth backwards, as ...
144		Steve Foster Steve@...	Apr 3, 2001 4:53 pm
	Bob, Thanks for the info. I'd guessed the bit about Earth/Sun reversal but I found Earth co-ordinates always came out as zeros in this co-ordinate system! ...
145		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 3, 2001 7:41 pm
	With .NET being mercilessly flogged by Microsoft, it might be a bit scary that we're building on Windows Script. Not so. Windows Script will be around for a ...
146		Douglas B. George dgeorge@...	Apr 4, 2001 8:12 pm
	Here is an update to the proposed standardized focuser interface: Properties ... Link Read/Write Set true to connect link to focuser, false to...
147		Jeff Medkeff medkeff@...	Apr 4, 2001 8:59 pm
	... Could someone explain why these two items are desirable separately? It seems to me that Position as r/w would be preferable; you could read the position or...
148		tedi@...	Apr 5, 2001 11:31 am
	Hi Doug, the API looks good. I'm in the process of creating a precision focusser and have already come up with extremely fast and robust autofocus algorithms,...
149		Wagner,Rick [CIS-ADS] rick.wagner@...	Apr 5, 2001 11:39 am
	My first question was how to make relative moves for the non-absolute focuser. The comment under the Absolute property seems to address that but the...
150		Douglas B. George dgeorge@...	Apr 5, 2001 1:51 pm
	... A good thought. The first focuser I implemented does not have that ability -- the Optec TCF-S will not listen to additional serial commands until it ...
151		Douglas B. George dgeorge@...	Apr 5, 2001 1:51 pm
	... In the relative mode, the input to Move is the distance to go, positive or negative. ... I would think the position would be valid only for absolute...
152		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 5, 2001 1:52 pm
	I believe the requirements for considering the ASCOM Telescope Driver Interface as an ASCOM Standard have been met. The design has been discussed and refined...
153		John Oliver oliver@...	Apr 5, 2001 2:45 pm
	... Agreed. I have sketched out the implementation for my custom 46cm scope and it seems to fill the bill. -- John Oliver Astronomy Department University of...
154		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 5, 2001 2:55 pm
	... For most things, the Telescope driver throws an Automation exception with defined error code (0x80040400) to indicate "not supported". If the feature would...
155		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 5, 2001 3:01 pm
	... Without getting into the details of the referenced conversation, I'll sai I strongly agree. The lower level the interface gets, the more device specific ...
156		tedi@...	Apr 6, 2001 12:12 pm
	I agree with the sentiment of keeping things simple for the application developer. That is the motivation for many of my suggestions. But in light of the...
157		Douglas B. George dgeorge@...	Apr 6, 2001 12:54 pm
	... The Optec temp compensation does not lock onto a single position. It moves relative to the current position. So this is not an issue. ... And it will be....
158		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 6, 2001 1:41 pm
	... PRO: This is an interesting suggestion. I only wish I could turn the clock back on the Telescope interface :-) The interface would define the ...
159		John Oliver oliver@...	Apr 6, 2001 2:15 pm
	... Could not one have Method: SetCapability capabilityNum, setActive as boolean ? -- John Oliver...
160		Douglas B. George dgeorge@...	Apr 6, 2001 2:36 pm
	... On the surface that sounds good, but I'm not sure if that's what we want to do. First of all, you need to modify the client software in a proprietary way...
161		cspratt@...	Apr 6, 2001 2:52 pm
	Is anyone currently working on an Ascom compliant driver for the Astro-Physics Goto mounts?...
162		Ajai Sehgal ajai@...	Apr 6, 2001 2:58 pm
	Yup. Will test once I get some clear weather!!! Ajai ... From: cspratt@... To: ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 07:52 ...
163		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 7, 2001 4:37 pm
	This one really got me: On Error Resume Next If Not Plate.Solve Then On Error Goto 0 ' Back to fatal errors Console.PrintLine Err.Description ......
164		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 7, 2001 5:38 pm
	The Office 2K script debugger can be used outside Office as a general purpose script debugger. I have been struggling with that infernal Microsoft Script...
165		John Oliver oliver@...	Apr 7, 2001 6:50 pm
	Is there available a brief text list of the properties and methods for the telescope driver interface? I need a quick refernce and HTML is not very concise. ...
166		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 7, 2001 9:33 pm
	John -- No, the CHM file is the only document. This format is the Windows 2000 standard way to document things (look in C:\Winnt\Help or C:\Windows\Help). I ...
167		John Oliver oliver@...	Apr 8, 2001 8:57 pm
	... Thanks anyway ... I was looking for a "quick ref" so I typed one into Excel using the help file. While doing so several things came up that I had not run...
168		tedi@...	Apr 9, 2001 6:29 am
	I'm in 100% agreement with comment. We need to ensure that application writers never get burned when new versions come out. In my company's user-visible code,...
169		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 9, 2001 1:15 pm
	Yes. But that was just an example where the hypothetical capability happens to be controlled by a "flag". One can imagine other features would require their ...
170		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Apr 9, 2001 1:31 pm
	tedi@... wrote:> ... var objChild = objRoot.Item("childfoo") with a dynamic object, after buliding the collection at runtime, you would be able to say: ...
171		John Oliver oliver@...	Apr 9, 2001 1:32 pm
	... It was pointed out that extending such enumerated variables would require some sort of administrative system to control assignment of values and thus would...

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