[APBeta] AP and GPS
Paul Rodman
paul at ilanga.com
Wed Jul 1 07:05:10 PDT 2009
On Jun 30, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Peter B wrote:
> Hi all, I took possession of a GPS receiver for my laptop yesterday
> and would like to use this with Astroplanner. I tested the unit
> with the bundled software and also with EQMOD and it appears to be
> working and communicating with the software. When I tried it with
> AP(V2b43) it was unclear whether AP was recognising the GPS unit and
> if it did whether it had made any adjustment to either the location
> or the time. Is there any way of testing that the GPS information is
> being used by AP?
Currently, the only place the GPS can be accessed is in Edit-
>Resources->Sites, where you can retrieve the lat/long/GMT offset of
a site from the connected GPS unit using the Get from GPS... button.
The computer's clock (date/time) cannot be set from the GPS.
Paul R.
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