... The spec is not ambiguous about Unpark. The intent here is that merely connecting to a device does not Unpark it. The Unpark command must be explicitly...
Hey I found another connection... Just looking for this thread... ... I surely remember the debate, I'm very happy with the change from V1. And you are dead...
... Besides the GeodeticDatum fossil in the RelNotes, the fossils in SiteLatitude and SiteLongitude are also gone now. ... Fixed. ... Fixed. ... Yeah, another...
POTH always tells me that the Sidereal Time of my driver is wrong. Since the sidereal time is right from my perception, I conclude that the intended meaning of...
Thanks Larry, looking forward to checking out your work, Thanks, GZR ... wrote: Go to www.focusmax.org and look for the link called "Downloading PoleAlignMax"...
The Telescope specification says "The local apparent sidereal time from the telescope's internal clock" so it is LST, not GMST. The units are not specified but...
... Bev: Why not turn on the traffic monitoring and enable UTC,ST monitoring in POTH and see just what is being reported by your mount? -- John Oliver ...
The SiderealTime property of a Telescope is defined (in the ASCOM Telescope V1 spec) thus: "The local apparent sidereal time from the telescope's internal...
Thanks for the clarification. I had guessed decimal hours and had used LST (I may have read the spec on that!). I see that V2 clarifies the units. The LST...
Heh heh, that "negative west" can getcha. Sidereal Time is in hours, and it's not a string it's a floading point (Actually IEEE "double precision") which in...
Learning while implementing... (still on the road and not connecting regularly, trip extended till Saturday) CanPulseGuide is listed as New to V2. Not true....
... Thanks. I think it would be good for several of us to get some implementation time under our belts before the final final release to the wild. The recent...
See a couple comments interspersed William Boyer ... From: BREWSTER,JON A (HP-Corvallis,ex1) [mailto:jon.brewster@...] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:58...
If CanSetDeclinationRate is False, is it legal to read DeclinationRate? Or should that throw an error? Same for RA. [WB:] Sounds like it should be legal. Ok....
... to the ... great until ... I think this is a good idea. I've got a few implementation questions that I've been holding off on because I don't want to...
I am trying to use a laptop to automate my viewing on my new Celestron CGE1400. Up til now I have only controlled my camera and color wheel with the laptop...
Hi Lex, When you say it worked via hcAnywhere, where did you connect the serial cable to: - the port on the bottom of the hand controller or - the PC Port on...
We haven't found any fundamental software problem with the Celestron driver on the CGE mounts, it uses the same control protocol as the GPS, ASC and i series...
... serial ... Hi Ray, I connected to the bottom of the HC. Does it make any difference if the real HC doesn't do the alignment. I wouldn't think so.......
Hi Lex, I just asked to make sure that you were in fact using the HC serial cable and not the PC Port programming cable (which are very different and would ...
... If you are using HcAnywhere and have done the alignment through that then you must connect to HcAnywhere, not the real HC. The driver will not connect...
Hi Chris. I recognize your name as the one who wrote the celestron interface so I feel like I am in good hands. Let me go down the list. ... Celestron ... I...
... SideOfPier property is synchronous? It never occurred to me that SideOfPier would be writable. However, if it is, then surely we need a CanSetSideOfPier...
Is it possible to use ASCOM from a Java program? (Does it even make sense to do this?) If I had my druthers, I would write my next programming project using...
... Rats. I meant with newly supported V1 features still operational. That is V1 mode does not go back to just the features in the previous Simulator, but to...