[APBeta] Compare Telescope Computer Settings/ Telescope Control panel

[Ken Harrison]

Paul,
What about the ASCOM/ EQMOD route? Works very well with CdC
This gives quite comprehensive control over the Synscan mounts?
http://eq-mod.sourceforge.net/
Would that be an easier solution for you??
Ken



On 08/12/2009, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Ken Harrison wrote:
>
> > Telescope Control Panel  - No option to change tracking rates??? Greyed
> out??
>
> Well, for the SynScan, all of the stuff on the control panel is
> inapplicable (according to the Synscan manual). Although it has a subset of
> the Nexstar GPS protocol, it's pretty limited (i.e. pretty much getting
> RA/Dec and slewing to RA/Dec). There's no movement commands, etc.
>
> I have created a separate SynScan driver (for 2.0b69), which hopefully will
> work a bit better than the more generic NexStar driver that's currently
> used.
>
> Paul R.
>
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