[APBeta] Re topic 6 in vol 9 issue 24 - alignment stars

[Paul Rodman]

On Jan 24, 2009, at 02:22 PM, Peter B wrote:

> If the appearance of alignment stars is associated with having a  
> computorised mount selected in resources then I suspect my problem  
> is associated with using the POTH ascom driver - perhaps AP doesn't  
> class this as a computorised mount attached?  I'll try selecting a  
> different mount and see if it fixes the problem.  If that is the  
> case is it possible to change the setup in AP with respect to POTH  
> so it does show alignment stars?  I assume this information is not  
> retrieved from the hand controller by AP but a list in a file?

Correct. Good point. I'll try and figure an elegant way around this  
for ASCOM (not only using POTH).

Paul R.