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

[Paul Rodman]

Really? OK, that's a bug.

Paul R.

On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Peter B wrote:

> Sorry Paul,
>
> I misunderstood - I thought selecting Celestron Ultima 2000 or Orion  
> Synscan goto as the telescope mount resource was not using Ascom.
>
> The alignment stars failed to appear with these mounts selected also.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:10:54 -0800
> From: Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com>
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] Re topic 6 in vol 9 issue 24 - alignment stars
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> On Jan 25, 2009, at 03:02 PM, Peter B wrote:
>
> > I did some more testing yesterday but no matter what I tried I could
>
> > not get the alignment stars to re-appear in the list.  I tried two
> > of the telescope resources (Celestron Ultima 2000 and Orion Synscan
> > goto) and both POTH and Ascom Celestron Scope driver.  All of these
> > correctly drove the mount.  I also experimanted with the Alignment
> > star selection criteria (LX200, 2 star and 3 star but no luck).
>
>
> No, this isn't going to work, since you are using "ASCOM" as the mount
>
> type, and that does not have any alignment stars associated with it.
> For it to work I will have to add a popup menu to the ASCOM mount
> definition with the name of the actual mount being controlled. I might
>
> look at that today. Or I might not... :^)
>
> Paul R.
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